Mayo Fuster Morell

Mayo Fuster Morell is the lead researcher of Dimmons Research Group of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute of the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), and the director of the Barcelona UOC Chair in digital economy: for a sharing economy focused on people’s welfare and the Right to the City gathering the UOC, the Barcelona City Council and Barcelona Activa. 

In addition, she is a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society – Harvard University. 

She is the UOC’s lead researcher of the National program project “Gender Digital project on gender equality in the digital sphere”, and the European projects PLUS: Platform Labor in Urban Spaces, European project DECODE Building the next generation of cooperative data platforms for digital sovereignty, and P2Pvalue: Techno-social platform for sustainable models and value generation in commons-based peer production. Furthermore, Dimmons Research Group promotes feminist digitalization of social economy though Matchimpulsa.barcelona, an enterprise promotion program of 130 companies in Barcelona.

She is the Chair of COST Action P-WILL on feminist intersectional approaches to platform economy, a network of 150 members from 40 countries worldwide.

In 2010, she concluded her PhD thesis at the European University Institute in Florence on the governance of common-based peer production, and has numerous publications in the field.