Why it matters
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 open-access paper connects cooperative principles to the problem of governing data at scale, distinguishing data cooperatives from data trusts, data commons, and data unions and surveying applications in health care, agriculture, and construction.
The source remains arXiv version 1, submitted April 14, 2025; the authors' institutional publication list also identifies it as an arXiv preprint rather than a later journal or proceedings article. Treat it as an early literature review and conceptual framework, not as peer-reviewed evidence that the proposed governance model works at scale.
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