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worker-owned cooperatives

Drivers Coop investment drive

photos of a mobile phone showing the Uber app and one showing the Drivers Coop app

The NYC-based cooperative that offers a driver-owned economically equitable alternative to Uber and Lyft has launched a crowd investment campaign on the WeFunder platform. Their goal is $1m and are over half way there.

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gig economy
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Why Open Source? Rationales & Recommendations by Agaric

Members of tech services co-opĀ Agaric share what open source software they use and why in their daily operation.

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free software
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Enspiral: A Case Study in Self-Organizing Companies

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Enspiral, best known for building Loomio, an open-source decision-making tool, is a network of initiatives trying to create utopia and prepare for collapse at the same time.

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social innovation
organization design
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Worker-owned co-ops are coming for the digital gig economy

Platform Cooperative Development Kit sketch.

Platform cooperatives, platforms owned stakeholders, are gaining momentum as an alternative to predatory platforms like Uber and TaskRabbit.

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Worker Coops: A Better Way to Make a Living in Tech

The Palante Tech Cooperative at their 2019 winter retreat.

Jack Aponte, a worker-owner and co-founder of Palante Technology Cooperative, breaks down what exactly a cooperative, how they live out the coop principles with their company and the benefits of this model.

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DisCO Elements

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A Distributed Cooperative Organization, DisCO for short, is a new way of running an initiative that incorporates cooperativism, the commons, P2P and feminist economics. Download the Book
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