Data Commons Cooperative

We are excited to share that the DCC's Steve Ediger will be attending the upcoming ICA Global Cooperative Conference in New Delhi on November 25 - 30, where he will be formally presenting our Cooperative Digital Infrastructure Manifesto to Ariel Guarco, President of the International Co-operative Alliance.

Now is your final chance to sign on to our manifesto to support a more robust and interconnected solidarity economy! You can sign on here:

https://datacommons.coop/cooperative-digital-infrastructure-manifesto/

We're excited about the new "How to Build a Data Cooperative" handbook draft that @opendatamcr@mastodon.green's Data Cooperative Working Group has published! We commend the effort and hope to see more data co-ops emerge as a result.

Check it out here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1attkWxJCdn1YCl3Rvb_PPsmG8b0BYvZj5rlPbvmhAfM/edit

#coop #datacoop #datacommons #solidarityeconomy

10 days remain to sign the Cooperative Digital Infrastructure Manifesto! We've received signatures from groups all throughout the international solidarity economy, including Mondragon University's Team Academy. Help us to advocate for digital tools and policies that will support a robust and fair economy - add your signature by 12/31!

To sign, visit: https://datacommons.coop/cooperative-digital-infrastructure-manifesto/

#data #datacommons #cooperatives #solidarity #solidarityeconomy #MondragonUniversity

Are you interested in #data #cooperatives? Do you dream of better ways of #mapping the #solidarity #economy? Run for the board of the Data Commons Cooperative! Contact us to share about your interest. Our election will take place at our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on November 3, 2023, so we need to hear from you about your interest by Friday October 6, 2023.

Would you be interested in being a candidate for the board of the #Data #Commons #Cooperative? Let us know! We are planning our Annual General Meeting for Friday, November 3, 12 pm Eastern (UTC -5). Interested candidates should get in touch by October 4.

You are invited to our Annual General Meeting this coming Friday Nov 3 at 12:00 E / 16:00 UTC. Meeting link: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/data-commons-board-meeting/
Access code: DCC

We will be discussing our plans and projects, including improving find.coop, helpful data standardization and data agreements, and connecting the pieces of the #cooperative digital ecosystem that can make our vision a reality.

If you're interested in #data #solidarity #consentfultech #sharing and so on, we'd love to see you there!

Hey all, we have a manifesto calling for #cooperative #digital #infrastructure that we worked on with some other co-op and solidarity economy groups, including @platformcoop@mastodon.social and @waag@waag.social . Wanna sign on, as an individual, and representing your orgs? https://datacommons.coop/cooperative-digital-infrastructure-manifesto/

We're pleased to share that our past recorded meetings are now available on Archive.org! See https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Data+Commons+Cooperative%22.

The DCC is putting out a final call for board nominations for our next term!

We are very excited to soon welcome new board members, who will have the opportunity to join us at a time of rapid organizational growth, helping to pilot digital infrastructure solutions for a globally interconnected solidarity economy. We seek enthusiastic, driven individuals who have some spare time to offer to think about all things data.

See comment below for election details and how to submit a nomination.

Steve Ediger of ChiCommons LWCA, Data Commons Cooperative, USFWC Tech Peer Network, and Patio (an international network of tech coops) and Manuel Leiva, President of FACTTIC (a tech coop federation located in Argentina) delivered the Cooperative Digital Infrastructure Manifesto to Ariel Guarco on November 27th, 2024 in New Delhi, India at the International Cooperative Alliance’s (ICA) Global Cooperative Conference 2024.

The DCC appreciates all of your support in getting us to this milestone!

With three newly elected board members, the DCC is underway with its 2024 strategic planning.

Now, we want to hear from you!

What issues or themes would you like to see the Data Commons work on?

We are extending the window to sign the Cooperative Digital Infrastructure Manifesto!

If you would like to see a more robust and interconnected solidarity economy, please consider signing on.

We will be collecting signatures until the end of the month, at which point we will deliver it to the president of the International Cooperative Alliance.

Your support is greatly appreciated!

To sign, visit: https://datacommons.coop/cooperative-digital-infrastructure-manifesto/