The DisCO CAT and DisCO-Tech
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.
Take Your Time, Do It Right: Commons Governance
How do we break the governors/governed dichotomy? An introduction to the DisCO Governance Model and its reimagination of value.
DisCO in 7 Principles and 11 Values
What makes a DisCO a DisCO? Here’s a breakdown of the Seven DisCO Principles with practical examples and dope art.
Distributed Tech, Commons, Coops and Feminist Economics: the DisCO Lowdown
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.
How to Account for the Future of Work: Automation, Blockchain, and the Knowledge Economy
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.
Who Owns the World?
Celebrating ten years of digital labor conferences at The New School, 2019’s Who Owns the World? The State of Platform Cooperativism was the most international gathering of its kind.
Commons: how the art of co-operation is the only way out of this crisis
The chaos and confusion of the COVID-19 outbreak has revealed some inescapable truths about how we live. It’s shown us how vulnerable, interdependent and interconnected we are. One by one, all the flaws of our current socio-economic systems are being exposed, with an escalating toll of damage
Take back the App! A dialogue on Platform Cooperativism, Free Software and DisCOs
Laura Flanders talks with coders, activists and tech entrepreneurs who are at the forefront of the platform cooperative movement.
On Return to the Commons & Digital Distributed Carework. Interview with Stacco Troncoso
In this interview with Stacco Troncoso, co-author of the DisCO Manifesto, we talk about the role of decommodification, return to the commons and radical workplace democracy, in practice.
Guerrilla Translation, DisCOs & the marketplace
Stacco Troncoso co-founded Guerrilla Translation with his partner, Ann Marie Utratel, as a living project to ground P2P and Commons theories in real practices.
He talks with Owen Kelly about the work of the group, and the ways in which they see the structure of their group as a vital part of its practice.
Stacco Troncoso 