Abstrakti
The Strategic Guide to Responsible Platform Business highlights alternative strategies that platform organisations can pursue to acknowledge and mitigate platform capitalism’s problematic tendencies. While it is informative for policymakers and civil society, the Guide is mainly meant to be a resource for decision-makers in European platform firms. It outlines key ethical concerns and trade-offs, to then point to possible responses that have been tried by platforms operating in the market.
The Guide discusses five domains of responsibility that are relevant for any platform business: (1) responsibility towards active users, (2) wider societal and environmental impacts, (3) algorithmic management and display of information, (4) interoperability, data sharing and standards, and (5) governance and accountability. For each domain, three condensed alternative strategies are presented and illustrated by examples of actual implementations by European platform firms as well as in-depth case studies.
The Guide is an effort to push platform businesses to use their initiative to learn from their peers about how to act more sustainably. As such, it complements regulation that defines the contours but not the specifics of what responsible platform businesses ought to do. Ultimately, the Guide is both a call to platform businesses to be the best corporate citizens they can possibly be and a resource to support them in achieving this ambition.
The Guide discusses five domains of responsibility that are relevant for any platform business: (1) responsibility towards active users, (2) wider societal and environmental impacts, (3) algorithmic management and display of information, (4) interoperability, data sharing and standards, and (5) governance and accountability. For each domain, three condensed alternative strategies are presented and illustrated by examples of actual implementations by European platform firms as well as in-depth case studies.
The Guide is an effort to push platform businesses to use their initiative to learn from their peers about how to act more sustainably. As such, it complements regulation that defines the contours but not the specifics of what responsible platform businesses ought to do. Ultimately, the Guide is both a call to platform businesses to be the best corporate citizens they can possibly be and a resource to support them in achieving this ambition.
| Alkuperäiskieli | Englanti |
|---|---|
| Kustantaja | Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society |
| DOI - pysyväislinkit | |
| Tila | Julkaistu - 2021 |
| OKM-julkaisutyyppi | D4 Julkaistu kehittämis- tai tutkimusraportti taikka -selvitys |