This research analyses the processes of CoopCycle’s adaptation in Argentina, Chile, and Mexico between 2020 and 2023. Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach that integrates Socio-Technical Analysis and Social Network Analysis, it seeks to answer the question: How are the processes of CoopCycle’s socio-technical adaptation developing in Latin America? Solidarity is identified as a central programmatic idea, one that does not operate merely as rhetorical discourse but is materialised at different levels in regulatory and policy frameworks, social relations infrastructures, skills, organisational practices, and even within decision-making networks. It plays a role in determining courses of action aimed at subverting dominant problem–solution framings and directly shapes CoopCycle’s adaptation processes. By understanding these processes as appropriation of knowledge and technology through historically situated socio-technical trajectories, the study challenges deterministic views of technological and social change. In this way, it contributes to debates on the viability and sustainability of platform cooperatives as counter-hegemonic alternatives that come from Digital Solidarity Economies, especially in contexts of structural inequality, informality, and exclusion that demand specific technological and organisational adjustments.
Gualavisí et al. (2026) studied this question.