DisCo principle #2: MULTI- CONSTITUENT.
DisCOs extend decision-making and ownership to all contributors, whether present in all value chains or affected by the coop's actions.
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DisCO Principle 3#. ACTIVE CREATORS OF COMMONS.
Creating new digital (code, design, documentation, best practices) & physical (productive & deliberation spaces, machinery) commons through various kinds of work.
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DisCo Principle #4. TRANSNATIONAL.
Physical production is kept local while knowledge, resources and values are shared globally with other DisCOs.
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How does the trope of The Future of Work fit into a world that is accelerating toward something worse than capitalism? Writer and scholar McKenzie Wark talks about the new ruling classes spawned by the IT age, techno utopian apologists & the agency over exploitation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiV0wS_in-4&feature=emb_logo

DisCo Principle #5. CENTERED ON CARE WORK.
DisCOs are living entities reflecting the values of its members which need care and attention to mantain their health and the well-being of the persons working there. Get your free copy of the DisCO Elements here: https://elements.disco.coop

TOMORROW FEB 25:
Hong Kong - Ensembl: An Ethereum-based platform for decentralised organising of artistic production

This project seeks to implement a DAO to reflect upon questions of value, stake, roles, work, collectivity, and sharing in an interdisciplinary context of contemporary music-making.

- Ensembl seeks to ask the questions:
How should value be shared and revenue be distributed in complex collaborative projects?
- How do we define stakeholders and objects, and how value is attributed?
- How do we seed an ecosystem with resources without dictating its structure?

DisCo Principle #6. REIMAGINING THE ORIGIN AND FLOWS OF VALUE.
Three types of value — market value, commons-creating value, and care work value — are tracked through complementary metrics.

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TOWARDS DECENTRALIZED CODE COLLABORATION: An overview of Radicle, what they're building and why.

"At the core of the open source ethos is the idea of liberty. Open source is about inverting power structures and creating access and opportunities for everyone."

https://radicle.xyz/blog/towards-decentralized-code-collaboration.html

DisCo Principle #7. PRIMED FOR FEDERATION.

DisCos replicate through a standard federation protocol that allows critical mass without regimenting all parts.
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@Amateur Cities and the @Institute of Network Cultures present this cooperative future-thinking effort from the @MoneyLab network. We live in a economic system that is global, competitive, and centered around the rational and egoistic vision of the homo economicus. How we can embrace different values focusing on locality, cooperation, and caring?

Get your copy of Radical Care: Embracing Feminist Finance here: https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/radical-care-embracing-feminist-finance/

MoneyLab Berlin: March 26-28, 2021
DisCO is one of the participants of MoneyLab Berlin an encounter that seeks to shine a light on emerging communities that are starting to organize themselves around sustainable finance, inclusive tech, community-based currencies and progressive monetary systems.

Now for the first time in Berlin, the 11th edition of MoneyLab aims at creating space for utopias, experiments and radical ideas around an economy for the people and for the planet. Over the course of this event we will present creative coping strategies, answers to the problems of data capitalism, platform monopolies and online surveillance, as well as modes of resistance.

MoneyLab Berlin will present a wide range of livestream talks, participatory online formats, workshops and, if official pandemic regulations will allow, a workshop circuit for participants based in Berlin.

https://moneylab-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/moneyLab-video.mov

1. PUT YOUR EFFORT WHERE
YOUR HEART IS: VALUES-BASED
ACCOUNTABILITY

Most companies & coops orient their production toward profit and meeting market demands. In DisCOs, production is explicitly guided by need, social and environmental priorities. This is the heart of a DisCO’s values and it is embedded in each DisCOs legal statutes.

Get your free copy of the DisCO Elements here: https://elements.disco.coop/

2. BUILDING WHOLE-COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE

Coops try to bring democracy to the workplace but their economic activity affects the chains of production & consumption. DisCOs extend rights of ownership & decision making to all those affected by its activities.

https://elements.disco.coop/

MOZILLA FEST

MozFest is a unique hybrid: part art, tech and society convening, part maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a more humane digital world.


https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/

Introduction to Economic Networks by @bhaugen

“There is growing consensus that capitalism is unsustainable and that something simply must change. It is not hard to point to the various reasons for this critique; from growing fears about the status quo’s inability to tackle climate change, to rising inequality on a global level, to the continual failure to achieve acceptable living standards in the Global South, and to the pressure of an insurmountable wealth gap between the elites and the working classes in advanced economies."

https://disco.coop/2020/08/introduction-to-economic-networks/

3. ACTIVE CREATORS OF COMMONS

Market enterprises exploit shared wealth (land, natural resources, human knowledge). DisCOs actively generate decommodified, open-access resources instead, either digital or physical.

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4. REBALANCING THE SCALE: RETHINKING GLOBAL/LOCAL ECONOMICS

Corporations extract resources as if they were infinitely abundant, while restricting immaterial flows of knowledge, usually reproducible at marginal cost, through intellectual property laws and patents. Conversely, DisCOs support and provide a business model for the Design Global, Manufacture Local template. DisCOs foster explicit attention to environmental justice and the various forms that enclosure can take, in the so-called new industrial revolution.

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Now on Hackernoon...

"DisCO adds seven additional principles to the original seven cooperative principles in order to reunite cooperativism with its commons origins and better prepare it for technological futures."

https://hackernoon.com/disco-in-7-principles-and-11-values-lt5f331q

5. CAREWORK IS THE CORE

Care and affective work are essential in DisCOs and are supported through established mutual support structures. We establish a peer-to-peer mentorship, which is horizontal and reciprocal. Emphasis is placed upon openly expressing observations and criticisms about the workings of the group and also sharing individual and collective aspirations, preoccupations and humor. This makes space for stronger interpersonal bonds and better trust-based communication, employing healthier and more emancipatory conflict-resolution tools.

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DisCO FAILZ at Capitalism

Some of us from Guerrilla Translation, the original DisCO LAB, first bonded over stories about moments of personal protest that sustained us in the capitalist world until we found each other.

https://disco.coop/2021/03/disco-failz-at-capitalism/
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