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Raymond Saner, Lichia Saner Yiu, and Samuel Bruelisauer, (2022) “Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the Social and Solidarity Economy” Encyclopedia of the Social and Solidarity Economy (forthcoming 2023) published by Edward Elgar Publishing Limited in partnership with United Nations...

The UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (TFSSE) was established to raise the visibility of the SSE in international knowledge and policy circles.SSE holds considerable promise for addressing the economic, social and environmental integrated approaches of sustainable...

European Economic and Social Committee, Brussels, 5th September 2017 Hearing in the framework of the EESC opinion on The core role of trade and investment in meeting and implementing the SDGs Raymond Saner, Invited Speaker''The core role of trade and...

Authors: Raymond Saner Lichia Saner-Yiu Publication date: 14 April 2026 Publication categories: Working papers Tags: Cooperatives; Cooperative ESG; Governance; Boundary workers; Members versus externals; Platform support Cooperatives are frequently presumed to align with sustainability due to their democratic governance and...

Principles and values associated with the SSE played an important role in the early production and use of ICT. What began with the ‘free software movement’ which promoted the development of operating systems and applications for computers, servers and smartphones...

Raymond Saner, Lichia Yiu & Melanie Nguyen (2019) PLATFORM COOPERATIVES: THE SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY AND THE FUTURE OF WORK: A Preliminary Assessment of Platform Capitalism and Platform Cooperativism and their Effects on Workers’ Satisfaction Article

Paper and Presentation given during the UNTFSSE Conference: “Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: What Role for Social and Solidarity Economy?”, held on 25-26 June 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland. Article

This paper focuses on the options that are available for older persons and their respective society to rethink housing and urban planning to better fit the needs and aspirations of older people. In addition, the paper also addresses the psycho-social...

The Sinergie - Sima XXIX Annual Conference was held at the University of Napoli Federico II in Italy on 15-16 June 2017. The theme of the annual conference was Value co-creation: management challenges for business and society. The CSEND team...

Sinergie-SIMA 2017 Conference “Value co-creation: management challenges for business and society” University of Naples Federico II, 15-16 June 2017 – Italy Paper presented for the conference Raymond Saner & Lichia Yiu; “A literature analysis of organisational growth challenges of Cooperatives...