Roope Mokka's keynote from Mindtek 2016

1. How sharing
economy
changes the
cities
Roope Mokka, Demos Helsinki
Demos Helsinki
roope.mokka@demoshelsinki.fi
@mokka

2. https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg%E2%80%99s-ipo-letter--why-
facebook-exists.html

3. https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg%E2%80%99s-ipo-letter--why-
facebook-exists.html
“Products are just orphan services, hiding
the production and distribution from people”

4. What is sharing economy?

5. Sharing economy means that people
can now come together and share
excess capacity more directly than
before on (mostly) digital platforms,
that create lower the transaction
costs by matching needs,
guaranteeing the service and
defining the possible actions.

6. Sharing economy means that
people can now come together and
share excess capacity more directly
than before on (mostly) digital
platforms, that create lower the
transaction costs by matching
needs, guaranteeing the service and
defining the possible actions.

7. Purpose-built
DIY

8. Sharing Economy
Platform
economy
Gig-economy
Circular
economy Sharing economy is based on
platform solutions. It can also
be seen as the “consumer side”
of circular economy. It can offer
people “gigs” as jobs.

9. Sharing economy means that
people can now come together
and share excess capacity more
directly than before on (mostly)
digital platforms, that create lower
the transaction costs by matching
needs, guaranteeing the service and
defining the possible actions.

10. Creating social value,

11. Sharing economy means that people
can now come together and share
excess capacity more directly than
before on (mostly) digital platforms,
that create lower the transaction
costs by matching needs,
guaranteeing the service, defining
the possible actions.

12. We no longer live in an era of
scarcity, but one of too much. Too
much goods, time, ideas, empathy,
interest in politics, etc.

13. Excess interest in politics?
https://vtaiwan.tw/

14. Sharing economy means that people
can now come together and share
excess capacity more directly than
before on (mostly) digital platforms,
that create lower the transaction
costs by matching needs,
guaranteeing the service, defining
the possible actions.

15. New kind of meetings

16. Sharing economy means that people
can now come together and share
excess capacity more directly than
before on (mostly) digital
platforms, that create lower the
transaction costs by matching
needs, guaranteeing the service,
defining the possible actions.

17. Platform as an operating
model for the city
governance.

18. Sharing economy means that people
can now come together and share
excess capacity more directly than
before on (mostly) digital platforms,
that create lower transaction
costs by matching needs,
guaranteeing the service and
defining the possible actions.

20. The Impact on cities?

21. Possibilities for cities Threats for cities
Wider participation through
meaningful activities
New kind of support for
people’s wellbeing
Stronger local value creation
and income
Disruptive ecological efficiency
Democratically governed
collaborations

22. Possibilities for cities Threats for cities
Wider participation through
meaningful activities
New kind of support for
people’s wellbeing
Stronger local value creation
and income
Disruptive ecological efficiency
Democratically governed
collaborations
Better transportation, housing
and food systems
Global monopolies in operating
and owning of housing,
transportation and food
Working poors in wild
employment markets
Taxation
Underprivileged people will
drop of the services
Empty public spaces

23. Cities need to get five things!
1. Cities are the new ground for innovation. But not tech! Focus away
from technologies to people, business models and experimental
legislation.

24. 1. Cities are the new ground for innovation. But not tech! Focus away
from technologies to people, business models and experimental
legislation.
2. There is no such thing as a generic platform company. Cities need
to aggressively promote platforms that can be governed by the
users, enable meetings between people and make sure no-one is
excluded from the platforms.
Cities need to get five things!

25. 1. Cities are the new ground for innovation. But not tech! Focus away
from technologies to people, business models and experimental
legislation.
2. There is no such thing as a generic platform company. Cities need
to aggressively promote platforms that can be governed by the
users, enable meetings between people and make sure no-one is
excluded from the platforms.
3. Value is created from use, not production. Cities need to
understand that value is created from use of cars and buildings, not
new and more. Urban planning has thus outdated norms.
Cities need to get five things!

26. 1. Cities are the new ground for innovation. But not tech! Focus away
from technologies to people, business models and experimental
legislation.
2. There is no such thing as a generic platform company. Cities need
to aggressively promote platforms that can be governed by the
users, enable meetings between people and make sure no-one is
excluded from the platforms.
3. Value is created from use, not production. Cities need to
understand that value is created from use of cars and buildings, not
new and more. Urban planning has thus outdated norms.
4. Cities already share, products are already services. Dominant
models for sharing economy already exist in the city, cinemas,
streets and so on.
Cities need to get five things!

27. 1. Cities are the new ground for innovation. But not tech! Focus away
from technologies to people, business models and experimental
legislation.
2. There is no such thing as a generic platform company. Cities need
to aggressively promote platforms that can be governed by the
users, enable meetings between people and make sure no-one is
excluded from the platforms.
3. Value is created from use, not production. Cities need to
understand that value is created from use of cars and buildings, not
new and more. Urban planning has thus outdated norms.
4. Cities already share, products are already services. Dominant
models for sharing economy already exist in the city, cinemas,
streets and so on.
5. City will become a platform itself. But we have to decide what kind
of platform or the programmers will do that for us.
Cities need to get five things!

28. For any of this to happen in managed way,
cities need to adopt a new experimental
government model.
There is a need to move away from technology
drive Living Labs and smart city initatives, that
test technologies for big companies to more
normative testing* of applications from citizens
and startups.
Themes and strategic
experiments
(from the government
and city council).
Initiatives
(from the citizens,
startups, etc)
Experiments Policy
Normative testing = Experiments
that have a feedback loop to policy.
*