How Platform Cooperatives can break the mold surrounding what is and isn’t a cooperative while creating new services — Connecting Web 3 with Platform Cooperatives Some ideas below on how this connection can be accomplished. For Decentralized Applications (DApps), using cooperative web hosting and servers to host DApps OrgTech configuration package optimized for Co-operative governance, administration and/or operations (e.g., accounting configuration for internal member accounts and handling member and non-member transactions)

LedgerbackØDCRC held its general meeting on 12–19–2020 from 9:45 AM — 12:30 PM PST online via Jitsi. The purpose of the general meeting was to provide an overview of changes in the cooperative over the past year and to discuss plans for the future. Charles Adjovu facilitated the meeting and…

We’re very excited here at Ledgerback to be taking on a new research project with an anticipated publish date in January 2021. In this essay, we will be looking at potential conceptualizations of democratic governance structures facilitating an interoperable data commons for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). …

The Ledgerback Digital Commons Research Cooperative (LedgerbackØDCRC) is a nonprofit cooperative comprised of a community of academicians, researchers, students, thinkers, activists, citizens and more collaborating together to operate and manage an independent education and research center. Our mission is to foster collaboration between stakeholders and unify the study of the…

Hi everyone! Hope you are doing well. In this post, we will discuss the Introduction to Commons-based Peer Production (CBPP) mini-course and the Peer Accounting License (PAL). Introduction to Commons-based Peer Production (CBPP) mini-course The Introduction to Commons-based Peer Production (CBPP) mini-course slidedeck is now publicly avilabale on Speakerdeck. The Introduction to CBPP mini-course is an introductory…

What is the Peer Prediction (PP) Mechanism? The PP mechanism is a mechanism designed to elicit truthful (i.e., honest) responses from a set of respondents when there reports cannot be verified because: 1) there is no objective ground truth available (i.e., …

What is the Peer Prediction (PP) Mechanism? The PP mechanism is a mechanism designed to elicit truthful (i.e., honest) responses from a set of respondents when there reports cannot be verified because: 1) there is no objective ground truth available (i.e., …

Research Update and Future Directions — Introduction The DGov Score Framework is a theoretical and analytical framework for distributed governance and digital/decentralized organizations. The DGov Score Framework (“Framework”) is a community-driven organization science project run by the Solidarity Project, a research group within the Ledgerback Digital Commons Research Cooperative (“LDCRC”). The Solidarity Project focuses on researching organizations…

Abstract Licensing is one of the essential means of exploiting the monetary value of a musical work, and yet it is an area fraught with many issues and transactional costs which make it a difficult process for individuals and organizations. Many issues in music licensing arise from the legal complexity (e.g…