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                                joly posted: "Today, Thursday 21 January 2016 at 6pm EST the Goethe-Institut New York will host a follow up panel to the recent Platform Coop Conference Ours To Govern And To Own. Trebor Scholz, Associate Professor at The New School, has penned the concept of “platform"                      </span>
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