TIME names Collaborative Consumption as one of the “10 Ideas That Will Change The World”.
The Movement
TIME names Collaborative Consumption as one of the “10 Ideas That Will Change The World”.
Collaborative Consumption describes the rapid explosion in traditional sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, and swapping reinvented through network technologies on a scale and in ways never possible before. Watch the
video.
From enormous marketplaces such as
eBay and
Craigslist, to emerging sectors such as social lending (
Zopa), peer-to-peer travel (
Airbnb) and car sharing (
Zipcar or peer-to-peer
RelayRides), Collaborative Consumption is disrupting outdated modes of business and reinventing not just what we consume but how we consume. New marketplaces such as
TaskRabbit,
ParkatmyHouse,
Zimride,
Swap.com,
Zilok,
Bartercard and
thredUP are enabling “peer-to-peer” to become the default way people exchange — whether it’s unused space, goods, skills, money, or services — and sites like these are appearing everyday, all over the world.
http://www.collaborativeconsumption.com/the-movement/
