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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">&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nathanschneider.info/e4e&quot;&gt;Everything for Everyone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. 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 &lt;a href=&quot;https://civichall.org/civicist/build-tech-with-movements/&quot;&gt;describes&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt;
<?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">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boulder-meet-the-colorado-sun-tickets-54663624372&quot;&gt;Register here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;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.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</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">&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://nathanschneider.info/e4e&quot;&gt;Everything for Everyone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. 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 &lt;a href=&quot;https://civichall.org/civicist/build-tech-with-movements/&quot;&gt;describes&lt;/a&gt; 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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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 &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_layer&quot;&gt;layer of abstraction&lt;/a&gt; quite distinct from the legal layer.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thanks to Brian Young of Action Network and Camille Kerr of Staffing Cooperative for their contributions to this conversation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</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">&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;by Nathan Schneider&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Thanks to Brian Young of Action Network and Camille Kerr of Staffing Cooperative for their contributions to this conversation.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</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">&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;by Nathan Schneider&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;I am currently engaged in research on the feasibility of such models, with the support of a fellowship from Rutgers University’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://smlr.rutgers.edu/content/institute-study-employee-ownership-and-profit-sharing&quot;&gt;Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit-Sharing&lt;/a&gt;. The first step is a paper with &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/1/morshed-mannan&quot;&gt;Morshed Mannan&lt;/a&gt;, 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.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More to come. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.zotero.org/ntnsndr/items/collectionKey/U298EBUI&quot;&gt;Here’s a small bibliography-in-progress&lt;/a&gt;. In the meantime, if this topic is related to your interests, I would love to hear from you.&lt;/p&gt;</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">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/medlab/assets/fetters-wave.jpg&quot; style=&quot;float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;&quot; /&gt;Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: &lt;em&gt;What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;More to come. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.zotero.org/ntnsndr/items/collectionKey/U298EBUI&quot;&gt;Here’s a small bibliography-in-progress&lt;/a&gt;. In the meantime, if this topic is related to your interests, I would love to hear from you.&lt;/p&gt;</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/2019/01/06/notes-on-collective-governance.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Notes on Collective Governance" /><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/notes-on-collective-governance</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/2019/01/06/notes-on-collective-governance.html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/medlab/assets/fetters-wave.jpg&quot; style=&quot;float:right; width:50%; padding:10px;&quot; /&gt;Those of us looking to shape our enterprises with methods for collective governance and shared ownership are led to ask: &lt;em&gt;What can collective governance look like? What shape does that take? What are some of the challenges and freedoms presented in this model?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;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:&lt;/p&gt;