Mayo Fuster Morell is faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society in the Harvard University, where she has collaborated with Prof. Yochai Benkler since 2010. She is also a member of COSMOS – The Centre on Social Movement Studies, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, and a collaborator of Interdisciplinary Seminar on Feminist Research Methodology (SIMReF) of GREDI Rovira i Virgili University.
She is the Chair of European COST Action P-WILL on feminist intersectional approaches to platform economy, a network of 300 members from 40 countries worldwide. She is the founding director of Glocal Action Research Center and its Dimm@ns Research Group (SGR-AGAUR, Catalan Government. She is expert on commons based peer production, and feminist economics. In 2010, she concluded her PhD thesis at the European University Institute in Florence on the governance of digital commons. She was the principal investigator at UOC for the European projects DECODE Building the next generation of cooperative data platforms for digital sovereignty, where she develop a multidisciplinary framework for sharing economy; PLUS on Platform Labour in Urban Spaces: Fairness, Welfare, and Development, where she analyzed alternative models of collaborative economy; and, finally, She was the Principal Investigator for IGOPnet.cc of P2Pvalue on the conditions that favor value creation in collaborative production and decentralized infrastructures, with Berkman Klein Faculty Affiliated Samer Hassen and Primavera De Filippi.
She is an expert and an active promoter of innovative public policies. She is responsible of the experts group BarCola on collaborative economy and commons production at the Barcelona City Council, and is the co organizers of Procomuns: A Barcelona local forum for the cocreation of public policies for a commons oriented collaborative economy, and the international Cities Sharing Cities Action program and Declaration, involving 75 cities collaboration worldwide. She led the creation of ¨Matchimpulsa¨ a transversally feminist programme to foster the digital platformization of Social and Solidarity Economy and sharing economy in the city of Barcelona. Matchimpulsa involves 150 companies in the Barcelona ecosystem.
She was the main host of the VIII International Feminist Economic Congress, celebrated in 2023 at Barcelona, which resulted in a common declaration. She has also developed extended research on social movements (Global Justice Movement, Free Culture Movement and mobilization wave of "indignated"/15M in Spain). She specializes in mission oriented and action-participation research. She has numerous publications in the field of digital commons, digital gender, public policies innovation, and action research.
