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<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}{% link assets/fetters-wave.jpg %}" style="float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;" />Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: *What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?*
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We spoke with several cooperative-minded experts who offered their insight into these questions, as part of a collaboration with the Action Network, a nonprofit online mobilization platform whose team is seeking to further democratize its operations. Here are a few takeaways from our discussion:
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* **Clarity:** Facilitate strong and clear communication around your offerings and core values. Create a ladder of engagement for the purpose of empowering members around co-ownership, leadership, and responsibility. The earlier you can define members' roles and emphasize their level of commitment, the more assured your members and core partners may feel.
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* **Trust:** Build trust within your organization to increase loyalty and engagement among members and core partners. It will be difficult to be everything to everyone. 1) Recognize the nature of your member-base; if they are mostly international, allow for participation in voting and web-based meetings based on remote positioning and convenience to their time zone. 2) Record and send out online meetings, creating open discussion forums and providing a variety of ways in which your members can communicate their needs and opinions to you. 3) Develop tools to increase accessibility and transparency around important stakeholder information, and show your members how to engage with your platform.
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* **Collaborative effort for collective success:** Understand that people respond differently to different kinds of communication. Some will want to dominate much of the activity or conversation on the platform. Spot the need to activate or incentivize many members to engage based on their preference or ability so that the contribution of value and insight is more fairly distributed.
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* **Use your users:** In any early stage of a startup or software project, the best test group for your product is your members; give room for critical feedback as a chance to listen, learn, and improve. This will also cultivate an environment of oppeness and transparency at every level of the process, while also retaining the agility and autonomy that the development team needs.
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If we think about a wave—the flow, the tide that pulls from within, it requires many forces working in tandem to build momentum and energy, enough to create the wave’s body and crest.
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*A special thanks to the participants in this discussion: Brian Young (executive director and founder, Action Network), Martha Grant (product manager, Action Network), Alanna Irving (team member, Open Collective; co-founder, Enspiral and Loomio), Chris Tittle (director of organizational resilience, Sustainable Economies Law Center), Margaret Vincent (senior counsel, Stocksy United).*
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<p><img src="/medlab/assets/fetters-wave.jpg" style="float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;" />Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: <em>What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?</em></p>
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<li><strong>Collaborative effort for collective success:</strong> Understand that people respond differently to different kinds of communication. Some will want to dominate much of the activity or conversation on the platform. Spot the need to activate or incentivize many members to engage based on their preference or ability so that the contribution of value and insight is more fairly distributed.</li>
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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>2019-01-10T13:23:14-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Media Enterprise Design Lab @ CU Boulder</title><subtitle>The Media Enterprise Design Lab 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">Organizations as Abstractions Over the Law</title><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/09/organizations-as-abstractions.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Organizations as Abstractions Over the Law" /><published>2018-12-09T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2018-12-09T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/09/organizations-as-abstractions</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/09/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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<?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>2019-01-10T14:29:09-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Media Enterprise Design Lab @ CU Boulder</title><subtitle>The Media Enterprise Design Lab 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">Event: Boulder, Meet The Colorado Sun</title><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/10/boulder-meet-colorado-sun.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Event: Boulder, Meet The Colorado Sun" /><published>2019-01-10T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2019-01-10T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/10/boulder-meet-colorado-sun</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/10/boulder-meet-colorado-sun.html"><p><strong><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boulder-meet-the-colorado-sun-tickets-54663624372">Register here</a></strong></p>
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<p>Out of widespread consolidation and layoffs in Colorado journalism, a new publication emerged last summer, The Colorado Sun. After just a few months, it has already produced vital reporting from across the state. The Sun is also journalist-owned and affiliated with the cryptocurrency startup Civil.</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" /><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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<p>Hacking the law may be a strategy for innovation, but in the long run it probably can’t be a substitute for changing the law as well.</p>
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<p><em>Thanks to Brian Young of Action Network and Camille Kerr of Staffing Cooperative for their contributions to this conversation.</em></p></content><author><name>Nathan Schneider</name></author><category term="internet-of-ownership" /><category term="governance" /><summary type="html">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 Everything for Everyone. 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 describes 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.</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Hypothesis: ESOPs for the Online Economy</title><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/06/ESOPs-for-the-online-economy.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Hypothesis: ESOPs for the Online Economy" /><published>2018-12-06T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2018-12-06T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/06/ESOPs-for-the-online-economy</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/06/ESOPs-for-the-online-economy.html"><p><em>by Nathan Schneider</em></p>
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<p><em>Thanks to Brian Young of Action Network and Camille Kerr of Staffing Cooperative for their contributions to this conversation.</em></p></content><author><name>Nathan Schneider</name></author><category term="internet-of-ownership" /><category term="governance" /><summary type="html">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 Everything for Everyone. 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 describes 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.</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Hypothesis: ESOPs for the Online Economy</title><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/06/ESOPs-for-the-online-economy.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Hypothesis: ESOPs for the Online Economy" /><published>2019-01-06T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2019-01-06T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/06/ESOPs-for-the-online-economy</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/06/ESOPs-for-the-online-economy.html"><p><em>by Nathan Schneider</em></p>
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<p>I work in a startup town, the rare kind of place where you can trip over veteran founders, with multiple exits behind then, on the sidewalk. By “exits,” I mean the end-goal of most tech-oriented startups—the moment when the startup is sold, either to a bigger company or, more rarely, to the investing public on the stock market. The whole culture of startup communities like Boulder is aimed toward this; it’s when founders and investors get their big payday. And yet this is the logic that turns our online infrastrutures into commodities. In the exit, it is often the data and loyalty of us the users that is being sold to the highest bidder.</p>
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<p>I am currently engaged in research on the feasibility of such models, with the support of a fellowship from Rutgers University’s <a href="https://smlr.rutgers.edu/content/institute-study-employee-ownership-and-profit-sharing">Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit-Sharing</a>. The first step is a paper with <a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/1/morshed-mannan">Morshed Mannan</a>, a brilliant thinker on legal strategies for a more democratic online economy. We’re exploring what conditions would work best for this kind if exit, as well as the policies needed to make it more feasible.</p>
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<p>More to come. <a href="https://www.zotero.org/ntnsndr/items/collectionKey/U298EBUI">Here’s a small bibliography-in-progress</a>. In the meantime, if this topic is related to your interests, I would love to hear from you.</p></content><author><name></name></author><category term="user-trusts" /><category term="internet-of-ownership" /><summary type="html">by Nathan Schneider</summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Notes on Collective Governance</title><link href="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/06/notes-on-collective-governance.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Notes on Collective Governance" /><published>2018-12-06T00:00:00-07:00</published><updated>2018-12-06T00:00:00-07:00</updated><id>https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/06/notes-on-collective-governance</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2018/12/06/notes-on-collective-governance.html"><p><img src="/medlab/assets/fetters-wave.jpg" style="float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;" />Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: <em>What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?</em></p>
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