The “sharing economy” has promised more sustainable use of the world’s finite resources, exploiting latency and promoting renting rather than ownership through digital networks. But do the digital brokers that use networks at global scale offer the same care for the planet as more traditional forms of sharing? We contrast the sustainability of managing idle capacity with the merits of collective local agency bred by caring-based sharing in a locality. Drawing on two studies of neighbourhood sharing in London and analysis of the meshing of local sharing initiatives, we ask how ‘relational assets’ form and build up over time in a neighbourhood, and how a platform of platforms might act as local socio-technical infrastructure to sustain alternative economies and different models of trust to those found in the scaling sharing economy. We close by proposing digital networks of support for local solidarity and resourcefulness, showing how CSCW knowledge on coordination and collaboration has a role in achieving these ends.

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平台，规模和网络：网格化本地可持续共享经济

“共享经济”已承诺将更可持续地利用世界上有限的资源，利用延迟并促进租金，而不是通过数字网络来实现所有权。但是，在全球范围内使用网络的数字经纪人是否可以像更传统的共享形式一样，为地球提供同样的服务？我们将管理闲置容量的可持续性与通过在当地进行基于关怀的共享而产生的集体地方代理的优点进行对比。根据伦敦的两项社区共享研究以及对本地共享计划的划分的分析，我们询问“关系资产”如何在社区中逐步形成和建立，以及平台如何平台可能充当当地的社会技术基础设施，以维持替代经济和与规模共享经济中的经济不同的信任模式。最后，我们提出了支持地方团结和机智的数字网络，以显示CSCW有关协调与协作的知识如何在实现这些目标方面发挥作用。