Introduction to the special issue on digital solidarity economies

María Belén Albornoz, Ricard Espelt, Rafael Grohmann and Denise Kasparian

Internet Policy Review: Journal on Internet Regulation, 2026, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-20

Abstract: This introduction situates Digital Solidarity Economies (DSE) as an analytical and practical framework for reimagining the digital economy through cooperation, mutual aid, and shared ownership. In response to the concentration of power within platform capitalisms, DSE highlight grassroots and institutional initiatives that democratise digital infrastructures and governance. Drawing on traditions of the social and solidarity economy, free and open-source cultures, and feminist and decolonial technoscience, the special issue explores how communities across the world build technological sovereignty from below. The contributions collectively advance a plural understanding of digital solidarity economies by foregrounding infrastructural arrangements, situated practices, and institutional experimentation as key sites through which digital economies oriented toward the reproduction of life are being built.

Keywords: Digital solidarity economies; Social and solidarity economy; Platform cooperativism; Technological sovereignty; Decolonial approaches (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.14763/2026.1.2075

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