# civic platforms
> There are two traditions that offer important intellectual resources for civic platforms at the level of the firm and the city: [[platform co-operativism]] and the ‘[[new municipalist]]’ movement. Each could play a key role in the political transformation towards platform socialism.
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Platform co-operatives are digital platforms owned and controlled by the people who participate in them.
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Developing alternatives from the local to the international level will ensure a rich diversity of organisational forms that are able to solve problems at different points in the system.