Platform Co-op Research Groups

The Democracy Collaborative

Open.coop - We organise conferences and run projects to help create decentralised collaboration at scale.

Articles & Resources

Could Co-ops Solve Income Inequality (story of Mondragon Corporation)

Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)Lab Book

The Commons Transition Primer

Cooperative Educators Network - How to Start a Coop

Directories

National Cooperative Resource Ecosystem - Centre for Cooperatives, U of Wisconsin-Madison

Participedia - Crowdsourcing Platform for Public Participation and Democratic Innovation

New American Economy

Directory.coop

Cooperative Platform Technology

The Commons Platform

Participedia - Crowdsourcing Platform for Public Participation and Democratic Innovation

Liberate Science

Immunes Health - a citizen-empowered platform aiming for a collaboration between scientists, professionals and citizens in times of pandemic and to prepare for a healthier future.

UnFound - brings together platforms that would like to go about their business in a more collaborative and inclusive way.

Platform Co-ops

Sheria Sacco Society - Savings and Credit Union

Cooperative Supports

Fractured Atlas

Start.coop

Hypha - We help organizations and communities redesign their relationships with digital technology.

General Research

• Solidarity as a Business Model - A Multi-StakeholderCooperatives Manual

• Nesta Platform Cooperative Report

• A Shareable Explainer - What is a Platform Coop?

• Open.Coop - What is a Platform Coop?

• Employee Ownership Conversions - Stories

• Cooperatives First (What is a Co-op?)

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• Grassroots Economic Organizing
• Data Commons Cooperative

• https://techaction.nyc/

• http://www.co-oplaw.org/

• Coliving

• Guerilla Media Collective Wiki

• Enspiral
• Coworker.org
• Cooperatives for a Better World
• Commons Transition - a database of practical experiences and policy proposals aimed toward achieving a more humane and environmentally grounded mode of societal organization.
• Evergreen Cooperative's Business Model
• Working together: scale and co-ops
• Trade union and co-operative innovations for precarious workers
• How platform coops can beat death stars like Uber to create a real sharing economy
• Enspiral, a coworking community/digital collective
• Loomio Coop, a software cooperative
• Centre for Popular Economics
• Shareable Article about Google grant
• FastCo Article
• Upstream Podcast - Worker Cooperatives
• Data & Society Report - Beyond Disruption How Tech Shapes Labor Across Domestic Work & Ridehailing
• A Guide to Worker Coops in New York City

• Quartz India - From plumbers to cooks, India is swiping right to find household help on apps

• Canadian Worker Co-op Federation - How to Start a Worker Co-op
• Apolitical: This Indian women's union invented a flexible childcare model
• The New Economics Foundation
• International Cooperative Alliance - 7 Co-operative Principles
• http://ica-group.org/
• http://www.seiuhcilin.org/
• Sharetribe
• Yes! Magazine - How a Worker-Owned Tech Startup Found Investors - and Kept Its Values

• Worker Co-operative Code

• https://aflcio.org/

Design Research - Existing Sites

General

• Democracy at Work Institute
• Berkman Klein Center
• Data & Society

Leaning Commons

• BC Cooperative Association - Knowledge Centre
• Coursera
• UBC Learning Commons
• BCIT Learning Commons
• TED
• Shopify Guides
• Simply Secure
• Open Knowledge Austria
• Open IDEO
• P2P wiki
• Co-op creator