Wingham Rowan directs the UK’s Beyond Jobs project. He has written books, articles, and policy papers for bodies across the political spectrum about the potential of e-markets backed by governments. Previously he hosted and produced Britain’s longest running TV series about the Internet.ย
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Governments and Sharing: Lessons from the UK’s Beyond Jobs Project
What can governments do to boost the sharing economy? What would be their incentive to do so? Where are the commercial opportunities if public policy were to fully embrace sharing transactions? I have spent 20 years writing, consulting, and overseeing publicly funded projects based on these questions. The answers in brief: governments are potentially the biggest buyers of fragmented labor, its regulators, setters of tax/welfare codes, administrators of databases of record, and ideally will serve as marketing machines for economic initiatives.
