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THE EVENT TAXONOMY

Markets and alternatives

How do concentration, competition and practical alternatives shape room to act?

competition

Pressure from rival providers or enterprises shaping strategic choices.

Where the boundary lies

Cooperation without competitive pressure is not competition.

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market concentration

Concentration of market or technological power among a few actors.

Where the boundary lies

Large scale alone does not establish dominant market power.

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alternatives

Building or choosing institutional or technical options to dominant arrangements.

Where the boundary lies

Cosmetic customisation alone does not establish an alternative institutional arrangement.

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risk tradeoff

Explicit balancing of risk, opportunity, speed, cost or uncertainty.

Where the boundary lies

A harm named without a choice or competing objective is unequal harms or reliability.

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What the comparisons suggest.

Alternatives need useful services and the power and resources to sustain them.

Changing ownership or model architecture can open options, but marketplace density, capital, bargaining power and institutional rules shape viability. Technical possibility does not imply equal ability to act.

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2:57

Boundary case · DAY 2

Where cooperative ownership stops

Overseas subsidiaries expose the limits and conditions of a shared-ownership model.

Speaker

Martin SmithCo-Founder & CEO; Partner, The Ownership Economy · CommonShareLinkedIn ↗

Ander Etxeberria OtaduiHead of Cooperative Dissemination · MONDRAGON CorporationLinkedIn ↗

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Negative case · DAY 3

What if better audits lose customers?

More complete checks can reveal problems while creating a commercial penalty for the verifier.

Speaker

Chuck RogersAmericas Director, Technical Consulting & Supply Chain Solutions · Bureau Veritas Consumer Products ServicesLinkedIn ↗

Possible alternatives, unequal ability to build them

3:33

Contested exchange · DAY 2

Possible alternatives, unequal ability to build them

Local-model optimism meets a challenge about resources and bargaining power.

Speaker

Nuria OliverCo-Founder & Director · ELLIS Alicante FoundationLinkedIn ↗

Bhaskar ChakravortiDean of Global Business; Chair, Digital Planet · The Fletcher School, Tufts UniversityLinkedIn ↗

Hamid RashidSenior Advisor · Permanent Mission of BhutanLinkedIn ↗

Adopt the technology. Look after the people.

0:42

Practical case · DAY 2

Adopt the technology. Look after the people.

MONDRAGON’s Ander Etxeberria Otadui describes training, transfers and supported retirement as responses to automation.

Speaker

Ander Etxeberria OtaduiHead of Cooperative Dissemination · MONDRAGON CorporationLinkedIn ↗

Build AI for a context, not for everywhere

1:32

Concrete case · DAY 1

Build AI for a context, not for everywhere

Drawing on research in southern India, Rachel Coldicutt describes small enterprises building for specific languages, needs and levels of access.

Speaker

Rachel ColdicuttFounder · Careful IndustriesLinkedIn ↗

Greater uncertainty makes evidence more necessary

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Core argument · DAY 1

Greater uncertainty makes evidence more necessary

Becky Faith argues that shrinking budgets and pressure to move quickly make research and equitable partnerships more important. She speaks in a personal capacity.

Speaker

Becky FaithSenior Research Fellow; Development Lecturer · FCDO; Institute of Development StudiesSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗

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