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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.8.5">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2019-02-02T22:46:11-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Media Enterprise Design Lab @ CU Boulder</title><subtitle>MEDLab is a think tank for community ownership and governance in media organizations, based at the University of Colorado Boulder's College of Media, Communication and Information.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Meet KOSAKTI, a Creative New Cooperative in Indonesia</title><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/02/02/meet-kosakti-in-indonesia.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Meet KOSAKTI, a Creative New Cooperative in Indonesia" /><published>2019-02-02T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2019-02-02T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/02/02/meet-kosakti-in-indonesia</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/02/02/meet-kosakti-in-indonesia.html"><p><em>The following is a lightly edited email exchange I had with Bimo Ario Suryandaru, CEO of KOSAKTI, a cooperative in Indonesia. He and his team are developing an interesting approach that I was grateful to learn about, and I thought others might be, too. <a href="http://kosakti.id/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/KOSAKTI-PROFILE-compressed.pdf">See their slide deck here</a>.</em></p>
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.8.5">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2019-02-06T12:28:21-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Media Enterprise Design Lab @ CU Boulder</title><subtitle>MEDLab is a think tank for community ownership and governance in media organizations, based at the University of Colorado Boulder's College of Media, Communication and Information.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Meet KOSAKTI, a Creative New Cooperative in Indonesia</title><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/02/02/meet-kosakti-in-indonesia.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Meet KOSAKTI, a Creative New Cooperative in Indonesia" /><published>2019-02-02T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2019-02-02T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/02/02/meet-kosakti-in-indonesia</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/02/02/meet-kosakti-in-indonesia.html"><p><em>The following is a lightly edited email exchange I had with Bimo Ario Suryandaru, CEO of KOSAKTI, a cooperative in Indonesia. He and his team are developing an interesting approach that I was grateful to learn about, and I thought others might be, too. <a href="http://kosakti.id/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/KOSAKTI-PROFILE-compressed.pdf">See their slide deck here</a>.</em></p>
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<p><strong>What does KOSAKTI exist to do?</strong></p>
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<p>Join Colorado Sun editors and reporters, together with CU Boulder students who have been collaborating with them, for a celebration of what they have accomplished. Learn about their work and their business model, and find out how you can get involved in a renaissance for news-gathering in our state.</p>
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-<p><em>Hosted by the Media Enterprise Design Lab at CU Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information, with support from the university’s Office for Outreach and Engagement.</em></p></content><author><name>Nathan Schneider</name></author><category term="stakeholder-news" /><category term="events" /><summary type="html">Register here</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Organizations as Abstractions Over the Law</title><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/09/organizations-as-abstractions.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Organizations as Abstractions Over the Law" /><published>2019-01-09T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2019-01-09T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/09/organizations-as-abstractions</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/09/organizations-as-abstractions.html"><p>The law, perhaps by definition, lags behind people working for social change. I certainly found this over and over in the next-generation cooperative projects I profiled in <em><a href="https://nathanschneider.info/e4e">Everything for Everyone</a></em>. One co-op in Catalonia was, legally, a mishmash of entities that presented themselves as if they were a coherent whole; another, in New Zealand, was an LLC that called itself a foundation but operated like a co-op. MEDLab has been working with Action Network, whose founder <a href="https://civichall.org/civicist/build-tech-with-movements/">describes</a> its innovative governance model as “cooperative,” even though the organization is mainly a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. Some of these co-ops are more cooperative in practice than many “actual” co-ops; it’s just that the older co-op law was inadequate to meet their needs. They had to hack.</p>
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+<p><em>Hosted by the Media Enterprise Design Lab at CU Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information, with support from the university’s Office for Outreach and Engagement and the Brett Family Foundation.</em></p></content><author><name>Nathan Schneider</name></author><category term="stakeholder-news" /><category term="events" /><summary type="html">Register here</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Organizations as Abstractions Over the Law</title><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/09/organizations-as-abstractions.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Organizations as Abstractions Over the Law" /><published>2019-01-09T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2019-01-09T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/09/organizations-as-abstractions</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/09/organizations-as-abstractions.html"><p>The law, perhaps by definition, lags behind people working for social change. I certainly found this over and over in the next-generation cooperative projects I profiled in <em><a href="https://nathanschneider.info/e4e">Everything for Everyone</a></em>. One co-op in Catalonia was, legally, a mishmash of entities that presented themselves as if they were a coherent whole; another, in New Zealand, was an LLC that called itself a foundation but operated like a co-op. MEDLab has been working with Action Network, whose founder <a href="https://civichall.org/civicist/build-tech-with-movements/">describes</a> its innovative governance model as “cooperative,” even though the organization is mainly a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. Some of these co-ops are more cooperative in practice than many “actual” co-ops; it’s just that the older co-op law was inadequate to meet their needs. They had to hack.</p>
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<p>Really, no organization is what the incorporation statutes and bylaws say it is. Organizations are made of people, culture, relationships, and other things that don’t fit into the letter of our laws, and which shouldn’t. This is especially the case for democratic enterprises trying to operate in a legal regime designed primarily for control by large investors and wealthy donors. Those seeking to develop new strategies for more accountable organizations have to be clever. They have to build the organizational structure as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_layer">layer of abstraction</a> quite distinct from the legal layer.</p>
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