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    User motivations for participating, or not, in the sharing economy remain murky. Hawlitschek et al. develop a questionnaire on personal motives to shed light on this increasingly important topic.
  2. The Circular Economy, Design Thinking and Education for Sustainability

    Designers are crucial to the development of this new economic model; furthermore, this model facilitates education for sustainability and enhances employability.
  3. Shared Mobility: How New Businesses are Rewriting the Rules of the Transportation Game

    This study from Roland Berger Strategy Consultants discusses the dramatic growth in shared mobility in cities.
  4. When Tourists Move In: How Should Urban planners Respond to Airbnb

    This article analyses the impact of Airbnb in Sydney on planning policies
  5. Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Platform Economy: How Uber Tried (and failed) to Change the Dutch Taxi Law

    Uber’s failure to change the Dutch taxi law stemmed from the difficulty to leverage pragmatic legitimacy among users into favorable regulatory changes in a highly institutionalized regime.
  6. New Zealand 20/20 Trust Digital Inclusion Manifesto

    Why did we select this manifesto? The 20/20 Trust is an organisation focused on digitally disadvantaged groups, geared towards increasing the inclusion of New Zealanders in the digital world by leading projects and working directly with communities...
  7. Concept and Practice of the Circular Economy

    This review presents the basic concept of CE and its association with sustainable development in developed and developing countries.
  8. Car sharing in the city of Bremen

    Bremen is a pioneer city when it comes to car sharing. Read more about their vision, shared mobility plans, open data and citizen engagement.
  9. Open Government Data. Towards Empirical Analysis of Open Government Data Initiatives

    Open Government Data (OGD) has the great potential to make life easier and targets more accurate, nevertheless, which is the price governments are willing to pay?
  10. Ellen MacArthur Foundation: Creating Circular Cities (Open ALEX)

    Sharing Cities Alliance Online Seminar I February 27 2020 I Creating Circular Cities (Open ALEX)