Thai Delivery Reimagined

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Cite this Paper:

Wantanasombut, Akkanut. 2024. “Thai Delivery Reimagined.” Institute for the Cooperative Economy. New York City.

Authored by Akkanut Wantanasombut, a 2023/2024 ICDE fellow, this paper explores the Tamsang-Tamsong initiative, a collaboration between motorcycle taxi drivers and Chulalongkorn University supported by the Thai Health Promotion Foundation. It aims to reform Thailand’s food delivery sector by contrasting a worker platform cooperative in Surat Thani with a multi-stakeholder platform cooperative in Phuket. The paper addresses challenges such as labor exploitation and environmental impacts, offering insights into the evolving platform cooperative movement.

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