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Sociocracy and Platform Co-op Governance

A practitioner article exploring how sociocracy can support platform cooperative governance, especially where scale, transparency, and member voice are difficult.

Source: Ted RauAdded June 12, 2026Published 2017
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Platform co-ops face governance challenges around scale and member voice; sociocracy offers one pattern for avoiding opaque inner-circle control.

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Platform co-op founders, digital collectives, and distributed member organizations.

This is a useful practitioner perspective for organizations where members may not work in the same place or participate in the same way. It is hosted on Medium, so it should be reviewed for long-term link stability before publishing.

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