The sharing economy offers policymakers important opportunities to advance goals such as economic development, inclusion, sustainability, and social connectedness. Nevertheless, it also presents significant challenges, ranging from the need to create a level playing field for traditional and new operators, to safeguarding privacy, health and safety concerns, and promoting inclusion.

In 2017, the ISO organized a workshop as a first step to initiate an international discussion on the potential development of national or international standards for the sharing economy. This led to the creation of the workshop document, IWA 27:2017 – Guiding principles and framework for the sharing economy, which identified 10 guiding principles for the sharing economy. These include: integrity; transparency; accountability; accessibility and inclusion; responsiveness; health, safety and environment; confidentiality, privacy and security; capacity; competence; and continual improvement.

To analyze how these principles can be incorporated in practice, the Mowat Centre conducted a jurisdictional scan to identify innovative national and international best practices, as well as challenges in incorporating the 10 guiding principles. This report provides a summary of this research work.

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