Digital economy and the SSE : the obstacles and paths to progress

Jacques-François Marchandise FING Research Director [vc_btn title= »Download the PDF version  » style= »outline » color= »blue » align= »right » i_icon_fontawesome= »fa fa-file-pdf-o » add_icon= »true » link= »url:http%3A%2F%2Fconfrontations.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F05%2FDIGITAL-TECHNOLOGY-AND-THE-SSE.pdf||target:%20_blank »] “In fact, what we need to consider is that if we solve the problem of poverty, then we are solving a global problem on a more or less long-term basis”. Digital technology impacts on the whole of society, producing changes in the way that we work and in the industries of tomorrow, opening up public data, generating new promises and risks, and affecting our very identities. The social and solidarity economy which, by definition, is based on communities of people is fundamentally concerned. The relationship between digital technology and the SSE: the obstacles It is possible to distinguish between two kinds of gratuitousness: “bottom-up” gratuitousness (economy of contribution, commons, inalienable resources) and “top-down” gratuitousness (economy of attention, which pays people to respond to advertising, Facebook, etc.). There is a conflict between the