This presentation explains how the concepts of collaborative economy can be exploited during a period of fiancial crisis. We show various successful ideas and applications that employ collaborative consumption to share resources, knowledge and experience, towards sustainability and reduction of expenses. The question asked through the presentation is: can the sharing/collaborative economy be used to address the financial crisis? The presented applications indicate that the answer to this question is positive!

1. The Sharing Economy
Collaborative Consumption
Dr. Andreas Kamilaris

2. Sharing Car Routes

3. Sharing Cars
Car usage across the U.S., Canada,
and Western Europe is 8%,
which means that over 90% of the time,
this thing that costs us a lot of money is
just sitting around.
The average person makes
$250 a month renting

4. Sharing Land
A thriving community of more than
55,000 growers, sharers and
helpers in 3 years

5. Sharing Old Stuff
1,428,327 Freegle members
in 377 reuse groups all over the UK

6. Sharing even Money!

7. Sharing, Sharing, Sharing

8. Sharing, Sharing, Sharing

9. Sharing, Sharing, Sharing

10. Sharing can monetize!

11. Sharing can monetize!

12. Sharing can monetize!

13. Incentives
Financial Crisis
The Social Web
Environmental
Concerns

14. Benefits
Lower Costs
Less Waste
Community
Spirit
An entirely new generation of
businesses is popping up
Extracting value out of the stuff
we already have.”
Access to goods and skills is more
important than ownership of them

15. Benefits
Lower Costs
Less Waste
Community
Spirit
An entirely new generation of
businesses is popping up
Extracting value out of the stuff
we already have.”
Access to goods and skills is more
important than ownership of them
$110 Billion-plus Market!

16. Sharing in Cyprus

17. Some Ideas
• Goods Exchange
• Goods Navigator
• Sharing land for installations of renewable energy sources
• Locate and support local products
• In-home Restaurants (“Paladar”)

18. “Sharing platforms won't bankrupt big companies, but they could eat away
their business. If the people formerly known as consumers begin
consuming 10% less and peering 10% more, the effect on margins of
traditional corporations is going to be disproportionately greater.
Which means certain industries have to rewire themselves, or prepare to
sink into the quicksand of the past."

19. Thank you!
Andreas Kamilaris
Contact me at: camel9@gmail.com
Website: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~akamil01/