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Data Cooperatives: Democratic Models for Ethical Data Stewardship

A research paper reviewing data cooperatives as democratic models for collectively managing and benefiting from data.

Source: arXivAdded June 12, 2026Published 2025
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New democratic organizations increasingly need governance models for shared data, not only shared businesses.

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Platform co-op founders, data governance researchers, and policy makers exploring democratic digital infrastructure.

This paper is relevant because it connects cooperative principles to the problem of governing data at scale. Since it is recent and hosted as a preprint, it should be reviewed for publication status before publishing.

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