What does DisCO governance accomplish? It encourages and rewards all types of work: care, love and livelihood. It values forms of power to act and highlights effective and movement building work, which is often hidden. It optimally balances the workload to avoid activist burnout. It creates community empowered platforms for sustainable activism.
In the time of monsters where new worlds struggle to be born, DisCOs are an Open Source Conspiracy for functioning, collapse-ready, and future-proof economies.
The “just break things”, DIY approach to creating Web 2.0, exemplified by a particular subset of Gen X technologists in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, only led to the entrenchment of a new power structure.
Policy recommendations for DisCOs, DAOs and changemaking organizations. This includes a strong focus on labor and gender rights, as well as addressing the digital divide.
Care work is time-work: it’s both material and immaterial at the same time (it’s magic, it’s physics… it’s Feminist Economics!) It’s our affective work, it’s practical and administrative work, but it’s also our emotions and all of the invisible work we put into our DIsCOs.
The DisCO CAT (Community Algorithmic Trust) is a series of modular software platforms designed so people can teach themselves, experiment, and ultimately build viable DisCOs.
How do we break the governors/governed dichotomy? An introduction to the DisCO Governance Model and its reimagination of value.
What makes a DisCO a DisCO? Here’s a breakdown of the Seven DisCO Principles with practical examples and dope art.
DisCO is an accessible approach to people working together to create value in ways that are cooperative, commons-oriented and rooted in feminist economics. Get the lowdown here.
What do automation, remote working, and the knowledge economy have in common? All three are among the typical answers to the question, “what is the future of work?”, and they all depend on emergent technologies.
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