The sharing economy can be a vehicle for achieving societal impact, and help address health and social challenges. The opportunities of socially driven initiatives and platforms include reducing cost of living for essential goods and services, improve well being and citizen participation, and increasing the scale and reach of care. How can we ensure that the sharing economy has a positive welfare impact for participants and society? This room contains research and case studies regarding this topic .
In this room we’ll present case studies of sharing start-ups, platforms, projects and best practices of city governments around the world trying to ensure a positive welfare impact.