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A Platform Cooperativism Consortium reflection on cooperative AI, shared infrastructure, democratic governance, and worker-led technological agency.
As democratic organizations scale into digital infrastructure and AI, governance has to include data, compute, tools, and ownership of technical systems.
Platform co-ops, researchers, and builders thinking about democratic governance in technology-heavy organizations.
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Medium
A practitioner article exploring how sociocracy can support platform cooperative governance, especially where scale, transparency, and member voice are difficult.
Platform Cooperativism Consortium Resource Library
A governance and economic model for self-sustaining, mission-oriented, distributed organizations.
arXiv
A research paper reviewing data cooperatives as democratic models for collectively managing and benefiting from data.
This resource is useful because it expands the scaling conversation beyond company size. It asks how cooperative governance can apply to digital infrastructure and emerging technologies, which is increasingly relevant for modern democratic organizations.