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+title: Collaborative Governance and Accountable Leadership
+summary: Consulting, convening and research on leading-edge democratic governance and leadership, especially through digital tools
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+Through 2019, we are conducting consulting, convening and research on leading-edge democratic governance and leadership, especially through digital tools.
+
+## Collaborators
+
+* [Action Network](https://actionnetwork.org/)
+* [CoLab](http://colab.coop/)

_projects/platform_cooperativism.md

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+title: Platform Cooperativism
+summary: Supporting an ecosystem for cooperative business in the online economy
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+
+Since co-organizing the first "platform cooperativism" conference at the New School in 2015, MEDLab director Nathan Schneider has been active in organizing and documenting this growing movement aiming to build an ecosystem for cooperative business in the online economy.
+
+## Collaborators
+
+* [Platform Cooperativism Consortium](https://platform.coop/about/consortium) at The New School
+
+## Publications
+
+* Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider (eds.), _Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet_ (OR Books, 2016)
+* Nathan Schneider, "An Internet of Ownership: Democratic Design for the Online Economy," _The Sociological Review_ 66, no. 2 (March 2018)
+* Nathan Schneider, _Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy_ (Nation Books, 2018)
+
+## Related
+
+* [The Internet of Ownership](https://ioo.coop/) directory of the platform co-op ecosystem
+* [Platform.coop](https://platform.coop/), a portal for platform cooperativism

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+title: Social Fiction for Social Enterprise
+summary: Research and workshops on the uses of speculative fiction
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+
+MEDLab offers workshops for community-oriented enterprises of all stages using methods of speculative fiction. In collaboration with science-fiction writer and activist [Cadwell Turnbull](https://cadwellturnbull.com/publications/), we are developing a methodology for applying narrative practices to the imaginative process of enterprise building—addressing challenges of internal governance, stakeholder acquisition, and social impact. In addition to helping entrepreneurs and their communities develop their own narratives, we commission original works from leading authors.
+
+## Related
+
+* [Project bibliography](https://www.zotero.org/groups/2198473/medlab/items/collectionKey/ZHIG3424)
+
+*Supported through project funds available through a Luce Foundation grant to CU Boulder's Center on Media, Religion and Culture.*

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+title: Stakeholder Ownership for Sustainable News
+summary: Can democratic ownership design foster newfound trust and revenue for journalism?
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+
+In collaboration with pioneering publications, we are exploring how democratic strategies for ownership, financing, and governance can support a new generation of accountable, sustainable news organizations.
+
+## Collaborators
+
+* _[The Colorado Sun](https://coloradosun.com/)_
+
+## Publications
+
+* Nathan Schneider, "[Stakeholder Ownership for Sustainable News](https://osf.io/d4cbv/)" (draft via Open Science Framework)
+
+## Related
+
+* Open letter from CU Boulder faculty: "[CMCI Faculty Agree: Local News Matters](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/localnewsmatters)"
+
+*Supported by grants from the Brett Family Foundation and the CU Boulder Office for Outreach and Engagement.*

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+title: User Trusts
+summary: Strategies for restructuring online platforms based on the ideas of Louis O. Kelso
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+
+Through employee stock-ownership plans (ESOPs), millions of Americans experience the benefits of being co-owners of their workplaces. But employment is only one kind of economic relationship that can be strengthened with co-ownership trusts. Louis Kelso, the inventor of the ESOP, also imagined other SOPs, including a consumer stock-ownership plan (CSOP). In an era when fixed employment may be in decline, perhaps the time is right to revisit the CSOP proposal.
+
+This project explores the viability and prospects of CSOPs, especially in the emerging online economy.
+
+*Supported by a Louis Kelso Fellowship from Rutgers University's [Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing](https://smlr.rutgers.edu/content/institute-study-employee-ownership-and-profit-sharing).*