Thanks for adding your voice, insights, and encouragement to the conversation here Jamie!
The participatory research work you’re doing related to aggregation services and data exchange/interoperability can be a critical building block in realizing healthy, equitable, resilient, and sustainable food systems. And #PlatformCooperatives offer the opportunity for ensuring that infomediaries have the support they need to steward and leverage that data for the good of all “netchain” (networked value chain) stakeholders.
I look forward to learning more at GOAT 2022 about your and others work related to or informing foodshed and food sovereignty focused organizing efforts, whether it be through this or another session.
One thing I’m hoping to share and get feedback on is the idea of creating a template for “learning journeys” which can help groups and communities explore and learn about some key concepts, tools, and possibilities for developing their local and regional foodsheds, opening the door to more focused and coordinated future actions. That might include the formation of multi-stakeholder cooperatives and networks. All of which might be supported in part by collaborative platforms like hylo and the new tools they’ve been developing for farmers and food systems.
I’ve been “working out loud” a bit on this in various places, including the free and open source social bookmarking / citation management platform Zotero. I shared some thoughts there specifically related to “multi-stakeholder socio-technical enterprises” as part of a larger series of reflections for a group I created focused on socio-technical development approaches.