Why it matters
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 freely readable 2017 article is useful for platform co-ops thinking about scale, transparency, defined membership, delegated authority, and the relationship between active stewards and a wider membership. The Medium destination still presents Ted Rau's original article.
The author labels it draft version 1.1 and notes that later work refines its proposals. Treat it as an early practitioner argument focused only on sociocratic governance—not as a complete platform-co-op design, a financial model, or current consensus guidance.
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