Talking about experiences of collaborative economy that were promoted by Associazione Uniamoci Onlus, the main example is the organization of SWAP PARTIES.
At a Swap Party, a group of people get together to swap items – from clothes to toys, books to sports equipment.
Swap Parties make acquiring new things into a fun, interactive event, which also reduces our environmental impact through recycling products: reusing a product, rather than buying a new one, reduces the demands for water, energy and raw materials. This reduces the impact on the environment.
We usually organize it twice a year from 4 years already, one at the beginning of spring and one at the beginning of winter.
We also created a wall of kindness, that is a wall where people can leave clothes they are not using anymore, so that the people in need have the possibility to freely take what they like.
Talking about “Collaborative learning”, in our organization we are promoting peer learning, offering the opportunity to who has some expertize in a specific field to teach something to the others: in this way we organized a cycle of cine-forum and some English and French lessons that where held by people with disability for other users of the organization.
More in general about the Collaborative Economy in Italy:
A study by the University of Pavia, reports that it produce a turnover of about 3,5 billion euros and that in the next 10 years it could reach 25 billion, thanks to the 12 million of Italians who are using the collaborative economy platforms.
Anyway in our Countries there is a sort of resistance against Collaborative Economy and the institutions, rather than to incentive it are trying to regulate it: the Italian legislators are tracing minimum quality standards for the services and they want to establish a turnover ceiling to define at which level the activity of the owners is occasional or is becoming professional. While in other Countries as well as in this direction, they are working also to boost and sustain projects that can be useful for the community. Anyway also the Italians’ poor levels of digital literacy, the poor levels of digitalization of the work processes but even a lower incidence of online transactions, are contributing to this delay in the affirmation of collaborative economy.
To make the state of collaborative economy in Italy more understandable we can use some data spread by the organization sharitaly that shows an increasment of the number of the platforms of collaborative economy from 138 in 2014 to 206 in 2016. These companies are working most of all in the field of crowdfunding, transportation and turism, the exchange of goods, services for people and culture.
Some examples are TimeRepublik, Blablacar, airB&B, glovo, scambiocasa.
Other interesting opportunities active in Palermo are car and bike sharing and also the urban shared gardens.
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