Round table: "ICT, open societies and new institutions"

Martijn Arets

At the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) conference the roundtable "ICT, open societies and new institutions" was organised. In this roundtable the question 'are platforms a new type of institution' was raised by 3 experts in the field: José van Dijck (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) raised the question and context on 'Do platforms bypass of replace institutions?' Fredrik Söderqvist (Unionen shared some highly interesting thoughts on 'How to unite unions, platforms and government through algorithms?' Haroon Sheikh (Dasym Investment Strategies) shared a global perspective on the organisation and control of the platform society. After the 3 presentations there was a discussion between the panelists and the audience. Chair of this session: Martijn de Waal