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A governance and economic model for self-sustaining, mission-oriented, distributed organizations.
Digital and distributed democratic organizations need governance models that account for paid work, care work, pro-bono work, and commons stewardship.
Platform co-ops, open cooperatives, digital collectives, and commons-oriented organizations.
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arXiv
A research paper reviewing data cooperatives as democratic models for collectively managing and benefiting from data.
arXiv
An academic paper examining whether peer production projects become more oligarchic as they grow.
Medium
A practitioner article exploring how sociocracy can support platform cooperative governance, especially where scale, transparency, and member voice are difficult.
This resource is useful for groups trying to scale democratic coordination across distributed contributors. It should be reviewed for source details and implementation fit, but it offers a helpful model for organizations that do not fit conventional company boundaries.