Akkanut Wantanasombut
Akkanut Wantanasombut is a scholar activist based in Bangkok, and coordinator of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium (PCC) Thailand. He founded Tamsang-Tamsong, a multi-stakeholder cooperative delivery platform that offers a community-centred alternative to extractive gig platforms, and ThaiEconoMap, a community-owned digital commons.
He heads the ISSIE Research Group (Innovation for Social Solidarity and Inclusive Economy in Asia) at the Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University, where his work centers on the solidarity economy, platform cooperativism, and fairer models of digital labour. As a member of the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS), he supports initiatives to adopt cooperative principles and the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in the digital economy. As Principal Investigator of Fairwork Thailand, he assesses working conditions on digital platforms and advocates for cooperative approaches that put ownership and voice in workers’ hands.
Through these networks he hopes to connect Thai and Southeast Asian cooperativism more closely to the global movement, learning from international practice and bringing it back to local organizing.
His fieldwork keeps him in direct contact with motorcycle taxis and informal workers, grounding his cooperative advocacy in the realities of those the movement seeks to serve.