Author: Gustavo Palacios

Lego Serious Play & Collaborative Economy

Sharecollab´s focus is to promote shareable cities in Colombia, and one of the business strategies is to spread collaborative economy knowledge through meetups and Ouishare events every month. Our next Meetup “Strategy in Real Time with Lego (TM) Serious Play (R)”, will be held jointly with Universidad de los Andes, aiming to build a shared vision of collaboration based economy….  Read more

Carpooling as a collaborative alternative for sustainable mobility

Ouishare Colombia, a think-do-tank aiming to empower citizens, public institutions and companies to boost Collaborative Economy will be hosting the Bogota OuiShare Drinks. This event will be dedicated to carpooling as an innovative alternative for sustainable mobility. It will gather main collaborative consumption pioneers and entrepreneurs, who will introduce their endeavors related to this growing trend in…  Read more

Sharing Economy: Moving forward in Colombia

Gustavo Palacios our Global Curator for Colombia, has been working very hard to build the sharing economy community in Colombia. He created Sharecollab as the first sharing economy lab in Colombia to accelerate the development of sharing economy in Colombia. During the second half of 2014, he focused in structuring and planning, jointly with Albert…  Read more

A great challenge that is also an opportunity of development for collaborative consumption in Colombia

Every day in Colombia we can find new projects, contests and events oriented towards supporting new IT based endeavors. November 5th is the deadline for presenting business ideas aiming to solve real life problems and to contribute to improve extreme poverty conditions in our country. It is not only a contest, it´s a world wide…  Read more

COUNTRY GUIDE: COLOMBIA

Gustavo Palacios, our Global Curator based in Bogota, Colombia, shares with us a collaborative lifestyle guide for his country. Colombia, known as a great cultural centre in South America by travellers, now also has a growing entrepreneurship ecosystem. The country has signed trade agreements with more than 40 countries and is now becoming very attractive…  Read more

Uber and the collaborative transportation revolution in Colombia

  We all have been witnessing how collaborative consumption had started to change consumption trends but, right now in Bogota, we are starting to see how it´s really impacting legal framework and business strategies and specifically in transportation. The controversy arose early in May when police started making checkpoints to immobilize private vehicles dedicated to deliver transportation…  Read more

Colombia and its first steps towards a collaborative economy

In this post, Gustavo Palacios, our curator from Colombia maps out Colombia’s current economic environment and how it’s gearing up to be collaborative economy ready in terms of tech, infrastructure and more. Colombia is developing an attractive economic environment with great business opportunities specially boosted by free trade agreements recently signed with different countries. The…  Read more