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[{"id":0,"href":"/posts/congrats_catalystcoop-2022_0504/","title":"Congratulations to Catalyst Cooperative","section":"Updates","content":"Congratulations to Catalyst Cooperative\r#\r\rCharles Adjovu\nMay 4\n\n    \nPhoto by Federico Beccari on Unsplash\nCongratulations to Zane Selvans from Catalyst Cooperative for securing a grant award from Climate Change AI’s Innovation Grants for working on Matching Structured Energy System Data for Policy Making and Advocacy using Weakly Supervised Machine Learning.\n"},{"id":1,"href":"/posts/daoindexv0.9_moyoalpha-2022_0507/","title":"DAO Index updated to Version 0.9 and the release of the Alpha version of Moyo","section":"Updates","content":"DAO Index updated to Version 0.9 and the release of the Alpha version of Moyo\r#\r\rCharles Adjovu\nMay 4\n\n    \nPhoto by Dan Dimmock on Unsplash\nThe DAO Index has been updated to Version 0.9. You can read about the update here.\nThe alpha version of Moyo (formerly known as Laplace) has also been released. Please take a look here.\n"},{"id":2,"href":"/posts/newpositions_jobboard-2022_0502/","title":"New Positions on the Jobs Board","section":"Updates","content":"New Positions on the Jobs Board\r#\r\rCharles Adjovu\nMay 2\n1\n\n    \nPhoto by Hunter Harritt on Unsplash\nSome new positions on the Jobs Board.\nFor more positions, check out the Jobs Board gallery.\nNew positions\r#\r\rMetagovDAO Call for Proposals: Research + Community\r#\r\r This is a rolling funding opportunity for participants in the Metagov community and other researchers to receive support for their work. We are looking to support projects that:\n  engage in original, creative research on online governance, DAOs, or other topics relevant to Metagov’s mission,\n  enliven the Metagov research community through events, relationship-building, and learning opportunities that share research, and/or\n  produce open-source or open-access research as public goods.\n  We especially encourage submissions based on collaborations between multiple members of the Metagov community (i.e. find a collaborator in Metagov) and submissions that connect members of the Metagov community with members of Gitcoin and the GitcoinDAO (i.e. collaborators from Gitcoin or GitcoinDAO count too). To join the Metagov community, read this doc.\nGrants may be between the equivalent of USD$100 to $10,000; they will be paid in ETH, DAI, or USDC. For research projects, we expect to see a concrete deliverable such as a blog post or a seminar presentation at the end of the grant period that presents the work in an accessible format to both the Metagov community and our partners in Gitcoin.\n  RSM Assembly Fellowship\r#\r\r Building on the Berkman Klein Center’s successful Assembly Fellowship, the RSM Assembly Fellowship aims to produce prototypes, frameworks, and other projects in the public interest, including in engineering, law, design, institutional innovation, and policy. Alongside this project work, the Fellowship aims to develop the professional community focused on (re)building social media in service of democracy and the public interest. Examples of impactful outputs from past programs at the Berkman Klein Center include Disinfodex, Data Nutrition Project, Clean Insights, as well as transformative institutions such as Creative Commons. Learn more about the past five years of Assembly here.\nIf you have a powerful idea, project, or plan — or parts of one — for an intervention in this space, or if you’re looking to make a more direct impact in the public interest, the RSM Assembly Fellowship might be for you.\n "},{"id":3,"href":"/posts/twitter_sentiment_analysis-2022_0414/","title":"Twitter Sentiment Analysis of #daos","section":"Updates","content":"Twitter Sentiment Analysis of #daos\r#\r\rAnalyzing the sentiment of tweets containing the hashtag \u0026lsquo;#daos\u0026rsquo;\r#\r\rCharles Adjovu\nApr 14\n\n    I made some charts covering the sentiment of tweets using the hashtag #daos on Twitter. Additionally, I made a wordcloud of the tweets.\nPolarity is on a scale from 1 (most positive) to -1 (most negative), with 0 being neutral. The tweets were tweeted on 2022-04-13, from ~12:52 PM to ~1:28 PM PST.\nIn total, I collected 200 tweets, with 97 positive tweets, 18 negative tweets, and 85 neutral tweets.\nPlease send me your thoughts in a comment or in an email to ledgerback@gmail.com.\nYou can find the charts below.\nBar Chart\r#\r\r\nPoints Chart\r#\r\r\nWordcloud\r#\r\r\n"},{"id":4,"href":"/posts/update_october/","title":"October 2021 Update","section":"Updates","content":"October Update: Updates on the Observatory, Distroid, Ledgerback Frontier Portal, General Meeting, and Ledgerback Frontier Awards\r#\r\rBy Charles Adjovu\nObservatory\r#\r\rGlossary\r#\r\rThe first preview of the basic Glossary of Ledgerback Frontier terms directory is now available.\nPlease find it here and let us know your thoughts!\nPeople\r#\r\rThe first preview of the basic People of the Ledgerback Frontier directory is now available.\nPlease find it here and let us know your thoughts!\nTools\r#\r\rThe first preview of the basic Tools of the Ledgerback Frontier directory is now available.\nPlease find it here and let us know your thoughts!\nVolunteer Board\r#\r\rHere is the LDCRC Volunteer Board! If you would like to help out and are unsure of how to do so, please refer to this board for volunteer opportunities (or you can donate 😊).\nIf you see any tasks that interest you, add your name to the Taker column and your Twitter handle to the Twitter handle column, and provide a link to your work under the Project link column.\nLedgerback Frontier Awards\r#\r\rHere are some awards I am thinking of issuing to recognize outstanding work at the Ledgerback Frontier for 2022.\nThe primary objective of the Ledgerback Frontier Awards is to identify and recognize individuals and organizations (loose- or tight-knit) that have made outstanding contributions at the Ledgerback Frontier, but also towards creating a positive impact for the future.\nI plan to split each award into two or three sections:\n  Judges’-choice (nominations not accepted),\n  Publics’-choice (nominations accepted), and possibly\n  Members’-choice (members-only nominations).\n  I will be working on the criteria for each award.\nPlease let me know your thoughts and if you have any nominations for an award. Additionally, if there any additional activities an individual or community is undertaking that you think should be recognized with an award.\nYou can find the list of potential awards below.\n  Research Award recognizing an outstanding achievement by an individual or organization in furthering the understanding of a field of knowledge at the Ledgerback Frontier (technically, papers can also fall here)\n  Convergence Award recognizing an outstanding achievement by an individual or organization in connecting and integrating one or more sectors of the Ledgerback Frontier   Education Award recognizing an outstanding achievement by an individual or organization in promoting education at the Ledgerback Frontier\n  Culture Award recognizing an outstanding achievement by an individual or organization in promoting cultural activities at the Ledgerback Frontier   Investigator award recognizing an outstanding achievement monitoring and investigating the activities of actors, resources, and apps in the Ledgerback Frontier in support of the wider public’s interest   Societal \u0026amp; Environmental Impact Award recognizing an outstanding achievement by an individual or organization in using technologies and/or organizing models in the Ledgerback Frontier for social and/or environmental good\n  Ledgerback Frontier Portal\r#\r\rThe Ledgerback Frontier Portal is a gateway to the Ledgerback Frontier (i.e., the Decentralized Web (DWeb) and related fields). The aim of the portal is to help people brave the Ledgerback Frontier through self-study.\nYou can find the Frontier Portal’s repository for self-study resources on Web3 here.\nPlease let us know your thoughts and if you have any questions or suggestions for improvement.\nLedgerbackHub\r#\r\rI will be moving Ledgerback’s articles on Medium to the LedgerbackHub.\nTo find our long form content in the future, please refer thereto.\nDistroid\r#\r\rDistroid Issue 15 was released this past October!\nGeneral Meeting\r#\r\rI am scheduling this year’s annual meeting for December 18th from 9 AM PDT - 11 AM PDT.\nI will be presenting the Networked Cognitive Cooperative Institute (NC2I) strategic plan and amendments to the Bylaws for a multi-stakeholder model and 501(c)(3) compliance.\nIf anyone else has anything they want to present, please send me a message.\n"},{"id":5,"href":"/posts/bikestream-2021_0825/","title":"Bikestream","section":"Updates","content":"This is a post about Bikestream.\n"},{"id":6,"href":"/docs/mainsito/about/","title":"About","section":"LDCRC","content":"About\r#\r\rAbout us\r#\r\rThe LDCRC provides the infrastructure for community-led intiatives to learn, connect, experiment, and build at the frontiers.\nStrategic Plan and Institutional Model\r#\r\rThe Networked-Cognitive Cooperative Institute (NC2I), further described below, is an institutional model and strategic plan for the LDCRC. For more information on the model, strategic plan, and background readings, please read the NC2I Google Doc. The NC2I is still a work-in-progress so any comments or other feedback is much appreciated.\nInstitutional Model\r#\r\rThe NC2I is a model for building a digital cooperatively-owned and -governed institute (\u0026ldquo;research cooperative\u0026rdquo;) to scaffold the human-centric side of the frontier, connect academia, industry and society, sustainably steward knowledge-based resources and tools, and expand the ability for anyone to generate, access, use and build upon knowledge from the frontiers. knowledge about the frontier. The NC2I builds upon the institutional forms of an independent scholar institute, cooperative, and tech nonprofit, and is inspired by other initiatives for new kinds of research organizations such as Focused Research Organizations, Private ARPA, etc.\nFor background, a research cooperative (i.e., community-owned research institute) is a purpose-built, values-driven, and people-centered environment for research, development, education, and/or commercialization, generally oriented towards the social good or public interest.\nStrategic Plan\r#\r\rThese initiatives (described as programs) are ways to approach growing the LDCRC as an institution.\nThe programs are:\n  Cottage Program: obtain cloud infrastructure, tax-exempt status, basic membership base, team development, and early-stage funding\n  Connectivity Program: connecting LDCRC to other people and entities at the frontier, develop an audience-research fit, and develop fruitful partnerships\n  Library Program: initiative to crowdsource data, intelligence and knowledge into databases (or directories) for discovery engines to support research, decision-making, education, and participation at the frontier.\n  The initiatives are for building the institute\u0026rsquo;s internal capacity, further implementing the NC2I model, have the LDCRC seen as a valuable research resource, and developing the LDCRC\u0026rsquo;s ecosystem through a portfolio of projects.\nTheory of Change\r#\r\rThrough our work, we will:\n  narrow the time between when discoveries are made at the frontiers of technology, science, and society (“frontier”) and when they are disseminated to the public,\n  expand the talent pool of people who can participate in research (or curiosity-driven exploration or self-directed research) at the frontier\n  spread awareness of human-centric futures (or narratives of such things) into discussions regarding the frontier\n  spread awareness of or develop sustainable and equitable models for value generation and distribution of data-, information-, and knowledge-based resources and tools\n  Values\r#\r\r  Solution-agnostic\n  Interdependence\n  Maximum creativity\n  Thoughtfulness\n  Constantly learning   Have fun\n  Optimism\n  Open Science\n  Team\r#\r\r Charles Adjovu  You can find Charles\u0026rsquo;s digital garden here   Jack Smye Marvin Roman Joseph Tobing Darick Velasco Joshua Davila  Advisory Board\r#\r\r Jan Zygmuntowski Dr. Sarah Manski Patricio Guerpe Morshed Mannan  Code of Conduct\r#\r\rYou may find our Code of Conduct here.\n Identity\r#\r\rName\r#\r\rLedgerback is a combination of \u0026ldquo;ledger\u0026rdquo; and \u0026ldquo;back.\u0026rdquo; Ledger comes from the term Distributed Ledgers (which is often used interchangeably with blockchain). Back comes from the slang term \u0026ldquo;greenback.\u0026rdquo;\nThe term is meant to recognize that we are currently living in a transitory period where we are re-evaluating our relationships with technologies, institutions, work, and more, and the need to identify the paradigm shifts to help understand this new world.\nWe chose \u0026ldquo;Ledgerback\u0026rdquo; based on the history of the slang term \u0026ldquo;greenback.\u0026rdquo; Greenback arose in the mid-1800s during the US Civil War as the US Federal Government started issuing paper money on green-colored paper (hence the name greenback). There was major uncertainty at the time over whether greenbacks would be recognized as banks as legal tender, how much one greenback equated to a piece of gold, and so on.\nThough this period caused some turmoil, it was a transitional period that has led to our current time where we accept that paper money has underlying value without a second thought.\nWe believe we are going through a similar transitional period, e.g., Web2 to Web3, Industry 3.0 to Industry 4.0, and that the vairous fields working on making this transition occur are at the frontier or the edge of what is currently known (i.e., the Ledgerback Frontier).\nWe believe we are going through a similar transitional period, where we are moving from soelly physical systems to digital, networked systems, especially those based on blockchains (i.e., systems that are backed by a cryptographic ledger).\nMascot\r#\r\rOur mascot is our super adorable and quick-witted stork you see in our logo, Scout Stork. Scout is flying across the frontiers to find and share knowledge.\n Follow LDCRC\r#\r\rWebsite: Find out about the LDCRC\nTwitter: Follow and chat with us on Twitter\nAnchor Podcast: Listen to our podcast episodes covering various topics\nEvery.org: Donate to the LDCRC\nSpeakerdeck: Find our slidedecks\nGitHub: Find our software and tools\nMedium: Find our insights\nContact Us\r#\r\rEmail\nDiscord\n"},{"id":7,"href":"/docs/mainsito/career-development/","title":"Career Development","section":"LDCRC","content":"Career Development\r#\r\rJobs Board\r#\r\rOur jobs board covers opportunities in industry, academia, government, and civil society that touch upon the frontiers.\nYou can find the Jobs Board table in gallery format here.\nIf you prefer a web-based interface, please take a look here.\nIf you would like to add a position to the Jobs Board, please fill out this form. Alternatively, if you are looking for talent, please send an email to ledgerback@gmail.com.\n"},{"id":8,"href":"/docs/mainsito/citations-and-mentions/","title":"Citations and Mentions","section":"LDCRC","content":"Citations and Mentions\r#\r\rBlockchain and the Rise of the Internet Cooperative\r#\r\rCited by:\n Grounding Decentralised Technologies in Cooperative Principles: What Can \u0026lsquo;Decentralised Autonomous Organisations\u0026rsquo; (DAOs) and Platform Cooperatives Learn from Each Other?  Mentioned in:\n What We Learned from Our Research Sprint on Cooperative Data Governance  LDCRC\r#\r\rMentioned in:\n Platform and Data Co-Operatives amidst European Pandemic Citizenship  A Preliminary Review of Blockchain in the Music Industry\r#\r\rMentioned in:\n IN REVIEW: BLOCKCHAIN IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY  Cited by:\n Blockchain-mediated Licensing: Legal Engineering for Artist Empowerment  You’re Data. You’re Control. You’re Profit.\r#\r\rCited by:\n Data Cooperatives Personal Data Store  "},{"id":9,"href":"/docs/mainsito/contact-us/","title":"Contact Us","section":"LDCRC","content":"Contact Us\r#\r\rEmail\nDiscord\n"},{"id":10,"href":"/docs/mainsito/donate/","title":"Donate","section":"LDCRC","content":"Donate to the Ledgerback Digital Commons Research Cooperative (LDCRC)\r#\r\rSupport the LDCRC\u0026rsquo;s work on:\n Education Research Tool-building Community-building  How to donate\r#\r\rCredit/debit card\r#\r\rIf you are an individual who would like to support our work, you can make a donation directly:\n Open Collective, Donorbox, or Every.org.  Direct Cryptocurrency Donation\r#\r\rYou can directly donate cryptocurrency to the LDCRC on Every.\nAfterward, contact us so we can thank you and send you a receipt for your records and tax purposes — and let us know us know if you\u0026rsquo;d like us to publicly thank you for your donation!\nNeed a different option? Let us know.\nWall of Honor\r#\r\rThe LDCRC gratefully acknowledges donors giving $500 or more on the LDCRC\u0026rsquo;s sponsor wall (name and logo will be displayed).\n"},{"id":11,"href":"/docs/mainsito/education/","title":"Education","section":"LDCRC","content":"Come learn with us!\r#\r\rJoin LDCRC for a transformative learning experience on the frontiers of science, technology, and society.\nOur resources bring the frontiers of science, technology, and society to curiosity-driven individuals.\nExplore Learning Experiences at the Frontiers with Moyo\r#\r\rIf you are new to the frontiers, please check out Moyo to find beginner to advanced courses covering various topics on the frontiers, such as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, Blockchain, and Platform Cooperatives.\nAre you looking for a research experience?\r#\r\rIf so, please contact Charles Adjovu about becoming a participant or member at the LDCRC, or finding research opportunities elsewhere.\nSyllabi\r#\r\rFind syllabi on various topics.\nExpect syllabi for our courses on Crypto \u0026amp; Cooperatives, Introduction to Data Cooperatives, and Introduction to Web3 to be added later to the site.\nIntroduction to Platform Cooperatives\r#\r\rVersion 0.3\nLesson 1: Cooperative History and Enterprise Model\r#\r\rCooperatives are people-centred enterprises owned, controlled and run by and for their members to realise their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations.\nThis lesson will go over:   the cooperative enterprise model and what makes it different from nonprofits and for-profits,   the history of the modern cooperative movement,\n  the cooperative identity and the cooperative values and principles,\n  examples of cooperatives\n  Required Readings\r#\r\r  Introduction to Platform Cooperativism Mini-course Part 1 by Charles Adjovu, Cooperatives Section\n  Cooperatives 101 by Courtney Berner \u0026amp; Margaret Bau\n  Differences Between Cooperatives and Other Enterprises by NCBA CLUSA\n  Cooperative identity, values \u0026amp; principles\n  Rochdale Pioneers \u0026amp; Early Cooperation\n  11 Companies You Didn’t Know Were Co-ops by Sara Horowitz\n  Types of Co-ops\n  Optional Readings\r#\r\r  What are Cooperatives?\n  Understanding Cooperatives: The Structure of Cooperatives by United States Department of Agriculture Rural Development\n  The Cooperative Model\n  For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Co-operatives\n  Lesson 2: Dynamics of Multi-sided Markets (i.e., Platforms)\r#\r\rPlatforms, especially digital platforms, have changed how we interact and conduct commerce online.\nThis lesson will go over:\n  Describing the platform business model and key terminology\n  Describing network effects\n  Required Readings\r#\r\r  Master Class: Platform Business Models by Professor Jochen Wirtz\n  The Network Effects Bible\n  The Network Effects Manual: 13 Different Network Effects (and counting)\n  Platform vs. Linear: Business Models 101 by Nicholas L. Johnson\n  Platform Business Model explained…in under 100 words\n  Introduction to Platform Cooperativism Mini-course Part 1 by Charles Adjovu, Platforms Section\n  Lesson 3: Drivers of Platform Cooperativism\r#\r\rPlatform cooperativism is driven by many different drivers, primarily centering on digital labor issues.\nThis lesson will go over:\n  Labor issues concerning online platforms and the gig economy\n  Digital rights and free speech concerns\n  Loss of confidence in institutions\n  Deterioration of collective bargaining power in the USA\n  The rise of venture capital in public markets\n  Required Readings\r#\r\r  Work in the Planetary Labour Market: Fairwork Cloudwork Ratings 2021 by Fairwork, pages 5-10 \u0026amp; 22-26\n  Rethinking Microwork: the Invisble Labour of the Platform Economy by Phil Jones\n  Regulate the web: Free expression, harmful speech, and the future of the internet by Stephanie Rieger\n  The enormous impact of eroded collective bargaining on wages by Lawrence Mishal\n  WeWork proves that (venture) capitalism works by Danny Critchon\n  Americans' Confidence in Major U.S. Institutions Dips by MEGAN BRENAN\n  Gwarosa: Working to Death in South Korea | Foreign Correspondent by Australian Broadcasting Channel (ABC) News\n  Why Uber Drivers Are Fighting For Their Data by Sara Holder\n  The creator economy is in crisis. Now let’s fix it. by Li Jin\n  Optional Readings\r#\r\r  Uber drivers sue for data on secret profiling and automated decision-making by Paul Sawers\n  China’s Gig Workers Are Challenging Their Algorithmic Bosses\n  Epic Games v. Apple: A Case Summary by Natalia Moreno Belloso\n  Venture Capital is Like Skinny Jeans (Or Why We Need a New Language for Capital) by Rob Tashima and Astrid Scholz\n  Lesson 4: Enter Platform Cooperativism\r#\r\rPlatform cooperativism is a movement to reimagine digital spaces by embracing cooperativism and the use of more equitable enterprises such as cooperatives.\nThis lesson will go over:\n  The manifesto driving platform cooperativism\n  How platform cooperatives differ from existing platforms\n  The case for platform cooperatives\n  Required Readings\r#\r\r  Platform Cooperativism vs. the Sharing Economy by Trebor Scholz\n  The Case For Platform Cooperatives in Digital Media by Richard Shannon\n  Investor Owned vs. User Owned Platforms\n  Twitter users are trying to buy Twitter by Jared Spears\n  Zebras Fix What Unicorns Break by Jennifer Brandel, Mara Zepeda, Astrid Scholz and Aniyia Williams\n  Optional Readings\r#\r\r Ours to hack and to own by Nathan Schneider  Lesson 5: Platform Cooperative Examples, Types, Major Organizations\r#\r\rPlatform cooperativism is a young movement, so examples and imaganieres are still being developed.\nIn this lesson, you will find out about the current state of platform cooperativism.\nThis lesson will go over:\n  The current state of platform cooperativism\n  The types of platform cooperatives\n  Required Readings\r#\r\r  CoopTech: Platform cooperativism as the engine of solidary growth by Jan J. Zygmuntowski \u0026amp; Anna Burnicka, pages 9-19\n  Platform and Data Co-Operatives amidst European Pandemic Citizenship by Igor Calzada, Section 3.2. Taxonomy for Platform and Data Co-operatives\n  A Shareable Explainer: What is a Platform Co-op? by Mai Sutton\n  Owning Is the New Sharing by Nathan Schneider\n  Reclaiming Work: The Cycle Couriers Subverting The Gig Economy by Novara Media\n  Optional Readings\r#\r\r Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech by James Muldoon  Lesson 6: Entrepreneurship Struggles and Opportunities\r#\r\rPlatform cooperativism imagines a newly transformed web that benefits people over profits, but to make these imaginaries a reality, platform cooperatives as an enterprise need to be viable.\nThis lesson goes over:\n  building a cooperative start-up\n  the benefits and drawbacks of the cooperative enterprise form\n  how the profit motive affects how cooperatives seek to achieve their mission\n  Required Readings\r#\r\r  How to start a cooperative by Austin Robey\n  Sharing Like We Mean It: Working Co-operatively in the Cultural and Tech Sectors by Greig de Peuter, Bianca C. Dreyer, Marisol Sandoval, Aleksandra Szaflarska\n  Starting A Cooperative Platform: 10 Questions We Answered\n  Strange Futures—Austin Robey \u0026amp; Danny Spitzberg by Willa Köerner\n  The Slow Demise of Loconomics by Danny Spitzberg\n  Employee Ownership Still Rarely Taught in Business Schools by Adria Scharf\n  How to fundraise for a cooperative startup by Alissa Orlando\n  Episode 006 - Worker Ownership and the future of the “Gig Economy” with Jason Prado of the Driver’s Cooperative by The Ownership Economy\n  Episode 014 - Patient-Owned and Aligned Healthcare Platforms with Dr. Jen Horonjeff by The Ownership Economy\n  Optional Readings\r#\r\r HOW TO LAUNCH A FOOD DELIVERY CO-OPERATIVE by Phil Jones, James Muldoon \u0026amp; Julian Siravo  Optional Courses\r#\r\r  Platform Co-ops Now\n  Lean Co-op by Start.coop\n  Optional Tools\r#\r\r Venturely by Business Model Design Lab  Lesson 7: Related ideas\r#\r\rFrom platform cooperativism, new related ideas have emerged that are also seeking to inject cooperativism and similar principles to the web.\nIn this lesson, you will learn about:\n  Exit to Community\n  Open Cooperativism\n  The Ownership Economy\n  Required Readings\r#\r\r  From Platform to Open Cooperativism by Ann Marie Utratel\n  The Ownership Economy by Jesse Walden\n  Exit to Community by Nathan Schneider\n  Optional Readings\r#\r\r From Platform Coops to Exit to Community— with Nathan Schneider by Boundaryless   Live Courses\r#\r\rWe also host live sessions were we go over various topics.\nSome past sessions include:\n2022\r#\r\rOur expected training programs for 2022 are:\n Exploring the Ledgerback Frontier  Past Sessions\r#\r\rExploring the Ledgerback Frontier\r#\r\rFour sessions offered in early 2022.\nYou can find the sessions listed below.\n Basics of Web3 Basics of Platform Cooperativism Basics of Research on Decentralized Web (DWeb) Blockchain Cooperatives: The intersection of Cooperativism and Web3  The syllabi for the live sessions will be listed on the site soon.\nMini-quizzes\r#\r\rNon-fungible Tokens (NFTs) Mini-quiz\r#\r\rAuthor: Charles Adjovu\nDate Created: 2022-04-14\nQuestions: 6\nHere is the NFT Mini-Quiz.\nFor reading material on NFTs, I suggest:\n  NFTs: Redefining Digital Ownership and Scarcity by Sotheby’s, and\n  Why would anyone buy crypto art – let alone spend millions on what’s essentially a link to a JPEG file? by Aaron Hertzmann.\n  Additionally, you can check the Web3 content library in the Portal.\nCooperatives Mini-quiz\r#\r\rAuthor: Charles Adjovu\nDate Created: 2022-04-14\nQuestions: 10\nHere is the Cooperatives Mini-Quiz.\nFor reading materials on Cooperatives, I suggest:\n  Introduction to Platform Cooperativism Mini-course Part 1 (Cooperatives Section) by Charles Adjovu\n  Cooperatives 101 by Courtney Berner \u0026amp; Margaret Bau\n  Decentralized Web Trivia\r#\r\rA trivia game covering historical events in the Decentralized Web (DWeb) (i.e., Web3) on Quizizz.\n Materials\r#\r\r Introduction to Commons-based Peer Production Micro-course: Self-study slides on commons-based peer production (CBPP), a mode of production conceptualized by Yonchai Benkler where people work cooperatively, usually over the Internet. Decentralized and Open Thinking Micro-course: Part 1: Self-study slides on thinking modals to help people think about the Ledgerback Frontier, and encourage practicing openness and decentralization. Introduction to Platform Cooperativism Micro-course: Part 1: Self-study slides on platform cooperativism, a movement to reform digital labor practices by implementing cooperative principles on the web. The slides go over cooperatives as an institutional form and the basics of platforms as a market, ecosystem, and platform governance Ledgerback Frontier Glossary Flashcards: Flashcards on popular terms in fields pertaining to emerging technologies such as Web3, Platform Cooperatives, and Tools for Thought Cryptocamp: An introductory slidedeck on Web3, blockchain and cryptocurrencies.  "},{"id":12,"href":"/docs/mainsito/faqs/","title":"Faqs","section":"LDCRC","content":"FAQs\r#\r\rCheck out the FAQs table if you have any questions.\nIf your question is not mentioned in the table, send an email about your question to ledgerback@gmail.com.\n"},{"id":13,"href":"/docs/mainsito/library/","title":"Library","section":"LDCRC","content":"Library\r#\r\rWe’re aiming to assemble collections of academic and grey literature that can support researchers and citizens learn and investigate the frontiers.\nWe have two main databases, our Zotero library (primarily research literature) and our Portal database (primarily a recommended list of resources about a topic under the frontiers).\nAdditionally, we also curate producitivty tips for research and knowledge work in general.\nPortal\r#\r\rCurrently, we have a curated list for Web3 that goes over the basics, and provides a critical review of claims in the Web3 field concerning decentralization, trustlessness, and other important concepts.\nAdditionally, we have a curated listfor Platform Cooperatives that goes over the main drivers of the field, such as labor issues, monopoly power, and venture capital, and then the basics, opportuntiies and struggles of platform cooperatives as an enterprise and the future imaginaries the field sets out to create.\nCurrently, we are also working on developing lists for:\n Tools for Thought Human-compatible Futures Web3 \u0026amp; Cooperatives  Productivity Tips\r#\r\rWe also curate producitivty tips and methods to help ease the research experienece and improve productivity.\nYou can see an example in Interesting Research Tools, Spotlight on Liberate Science, and the Pomodoro Technique.\nAdditionally, check out the Scholar Toolbox and Guide for more tools to help make research and communicating findings easier.\nLastly, find guides and tools from third parties below.\nGuides\r#\r\r Open Scientist Handbook Internet Search Tips from Gwern.net Social Science Research Guide by Dr. Robert V. Labaree Introduction to College Research  Tools\r#\r\r Kausalflow\u0026rsquo;s tool directory for scientific and academic tools  "},{"id":14,"href":"/docs/mainsito/membership/","title":"Membership","section":"LDCRC","content":"Join our Flock\r#\r\rWe are a global community of curiosity-driven change-makers (\u0026ldquo;storks\u0026rdquo;) who share knowledge, time, values and ideas to help steer humanity towards a future that benefits everyone. Together, we empower people to access, use and build upon knowledge from the frontiers for positive outcomes.\nOur community is for anyone who is interested in exploring the frontiers and wants to make a positive impact on the world.\nOur community has different modes of involvement, with some folks choosing to join our events, some just browsing discussions in Discord, some just working on institution-building, some just using the LDCRC\u0026rsquo;s products and services, and others working full- or part-time on projects.\nBecoming a member is a way to support the work at the LDCRC and helps make the LDCRC a sustainable platform.\nBenefits\r#\r\rIncluded with LDCRC membership are the following benefits and perks:\n  governance rights (one vote, right to stand in an election, and right to participate in decision-making),\n  access to member offers, such as discounts and special offers on goods and services (e.g., $5 discount on Distroid’s Paid Tier, free live teaching of syllabi),\n  enhanced or exclusive access to outputs (e.g., content, tools, cloud infrastructure, and data),\n  institutional affiliation,\n  institutional email address,\n  access to our virtual office,\n  Assistance securing and managing grants, research translation, and finding work opportunities to apply your expertise, and\n  Member badge,\n  Assistance translating research into actionable insights, and\n  More.\n  Membership Dues\r#\r\rMembership only requires a one-time payment of $30.00 for lifetime duration.\nInterested?\r#\r\rTo join us, please send an inquiry to ledgerback@gmail.com or complete the affiliation form. Alternatively, you can schedule a meeting here.\n"},{"id":15,"href":"/docs/mainsito/news/","title":"News","section":"LDCRC","content":"Subscribe\r#\r\rSubscribe to the LDCRC\u0026rsquo;s Substack newsletter to get updates sent directly to your email.\nSubscribe\r\r"},{"id":16,"href":"/docs/mainsito/outreach-and-engagement/","title":"Outreach and Engagement","section":"LDCRC","content":"Outreach and Engagement\r#\r\rThe LDCRC also works on community-building efforts, primarily outreach and public engagement, to inform the public about our pioneering research, and disoveries from the frontiers, assistance in career development, and acknowledging intellectual work (often untraditional work).\nOffice Hours\r#\r\rLDCRC\u0026rsquo;s weekly, pro-bono Office Hours provide the opportunity to receive one-on-one help with finding existing research, strategy, and/or general questions. Office Hours are held via Jitsi or Sprout video conferencing.\nYou can schedule a meeting here.\nLibrarians\r#\r\rContact Charles Adjovu for help on finding existing research on a topic on emerging technologies.\nCharles\u0026rsquo;s Hours\r#\r\rSaturday \u0026amp; Sunday, 3pm–10pm PST Max time per person: 30 mins\nGood questions for Charles:\n What are some good resources on topic X? What data is available related to topic X?  Forum\r#\r\rDiscord\r#\r\rCome chat with us on Discord about anything related to emerging technologies and human-centric futures.\nAwards\r#\r\rResearch-in-Public\r#\r\rThe Research-in-Public is an award for recognizing an individual or organization that communicates their research findings to the public to better understand a topic at the frontier.\nMedia\r#\r\rWriting\r#\r\rFind all of our opinions and insights on the Ledgerback Hub.\nVideo\r#\r\rFind our video recordings on YouTube.\nPodcast\r#\r\rYou can find commentary and discussion on various topics on the Anchor Podcast.\nEvents\r#\r\rFor times and dates on events, please subscribe to the LDCRC\u0026rsquo;s newsletter.\nPast Events\r#\r\r Creating Educational Materials on Platform Cooperativism  Speaker Series\r#\r\rThe LDCRC occasionally hosts events where speakers talk about their recent work.\nWe may restart the speaker series in Q3 of 2022.\nIf you are interested in being a speaker, please send a message to ledgerback@gmail.com.\nAnti-book Club\r#\r\rThe LDCRC plans to host an anti-book club in Q3 2022. An anti-book club is a book club where everyone reads what they want and shares their findings from their readings with the group.\nSocial Media\r#\r\rTwitter Lists\r#\r\rCrypto \u0026amp; Co-ops: A list of projects, organizations, and people at the intersection of Cooperatives and Web3\n"},{"id":17,"href":"/docs/mainsito/products-and-services/","title":"Products and Services","section":"LDCRC","content":"Hire us!\r#\r\rIn addition to our research, we also provide assistance to public and private organizations and individuals to learn and research the frontiers.\nProducts\r#\r\rDistroid Newsletter\r#\r\rThe Distroid newsletter is a commentary and curated digest covering research, news, events, videos \u0026amp; podcasts, and more on emerging technologies and their implications for the future.\nThe Distroid newsletter\u0026rsquo;s paid tier includes both commentary and a curated digest of news, research, events, tools, and more. The free tier of the newsletter only includes commentary.\nLedgerbackHub\r#\r\rPay for a subscription to the LedgerbackHub to get access to exclusive insights from the members of the LDCRC.\nYou can find the hub here.\nMerchandise\r#\r\rPurchase LDCRC-branded merchandise on Redbubble or Teespring.\n Services\r#\r\r  Scouting for experts: identify reference experts in specific subject areas\n  Scouting for technologies: identify emerging technologies relevant to your industry\n  API (planned): Get access to the LDCRC’s data for use in your own applications and research\n  Content development: We can help you develop content, including web articles and interviews\n  Educational content: We can develop educational content, ranging from full-blown MOOCs to explainer videos, and even short quizzes.\n  Sponsorship: Sponsor Distroid and let the community learn about your products and latest developments.\n  Promoted Jobs: Ensure your job posting on the LDCRC Jobs Board gets prominent visibility. Promoted jobs will be tweeted four times between launch and expiration. Promoted jobs will be mentioned twice in the Distroid newsletter twice between launch and expiration.\n  DAO Index Voluntary Scoring (planned): We’ll conduct, discuss and reflect on a review of your DAO’s governance and ethical practices with the DAO Index questionnaire\n  Ideation: Help developing new concepts at the edge of the knowledge frontier\n  Curation: We can help you create customized reading lists, podcast feeds, or searchable archives on the topics that matter most to you.\n  Sponsored Research: We can help you identify funding opportuntities, develop grant proposals, and administer grants for your research projects\n  Expertise matchmaking: We can help find researchers and companies for consulting and partnership opportuntities that can make use of your expertise\n  For inquiries, please send an email to ledgerback@gmail.com. Alternatively, consider scheduling a meeting.\n"},{"id":18,"href":"/docs/mainsito/research/","title":"Research","section":"LDCRC","content":"Curiosity-driven exploration through a human-centric perspective\r#\r\rResearch pursuits at LDCRC are highly exploratory, often venturing into the unknown. Members are encouraged to engage in collaborative and self-directed research through projects that aid our understanding of the frontiers.\nThemes\r#\r\rThemes are institute-wide research topics that draw together large networks of researchers from the LDCRC and beyond.\nOur themes include:\n Data Stewardship Digital Organizations Governance and Coordination Digital Identity Metascience Future of Work Sustainability Complex Intelligence Platform Economy Tools for Thought Social Enterprises Ethical Futures Emerging Markets Meta-crisis Emerging Technologies  Papers\r#\r\rA Preliminary Review of Blockchain in the Music Industry (November 6, 2018)\r#\r\r Musicians in the music industry are the primary content creators, and yet, have little to no control over their musical works after assigning their rights and management to third party intermediaries such as record labels, performance rights organizations, and publishers. Before the rise of file sharing platforms in the 1990s, this scenario was the norm for all musicians as record labels controlled nearly all facets of the music industry from musician funding to distribution and even royalty payment collection. Many thought file sharing platforms such as Napster and LimeWire, which we deem \u0026ldquo;the first wave of disruption,\u0026rdquo; would wrestle control of the music industry from record labels to musicians, but that has not occurred as of this writing. The rise of blockchain-based interventions in the music industry, which we have termed the \u0026ldquo;second wave of disruption,\u0026rdquo; may finally lead the music industry to transition to a musician-centered ecosystem, with few if any intermediaries, and bring musicians and fans/consumers closer than ever before. Despite the various promises of blockchain technology, the use of blockchain is primed, and dare we say, destined, to change the music industry. Though, with any such change, there will be issues that must be properly managed to ease the transition from legacy systems to blockchain-based systems (\\Legacy-to-Blockchain\u0026quot;). There are many issues pioneers in this field will have to face stemming from the music industry itself and the inherent limitations of blockchain technology, but in doing so, we recommend that blockchain-based intervention projects and pioneers implement six strategies to counter these issues and bring the blockchain-based music industry into fruition.\n Blockchain-mediated Licensing: Legal Engineering for Artist Empowerment \r#\r\r Licensing is one of the essential means of exploiting the monetary value of a musical work, and yet it is an area fraught with many issues and transactional costs which make it a difficult process for individuals and organizations. Many issues in music licensing arise from the legal complexity (e.g., national and international copyright law), business complexity (authentication, tracking, accounting, etc.), value web complexity (transparency of relationships among stakeholders), and technical complexity (e.g., establishing a global repertoire database for music, sufficient metadata standards) of working with music. Then, in addition to these issues, there are specific transactional costs (identification, negotiation, monitoring, and enforcement) associated with the licensing process. To mitigate the complexity and transactional costs associated with music and the licensing process, researchers and technologists have been investigating how new technologies and design models from the Web3 space, such as blockchain, linked data and Ricardian Contracts, can automate processes to reduce complexity, speed up payments, improve tracking, and provide other benefits in the music industry. In our report, we make our own attempt to reduce the complexity and transactional costs in the licensing process by developing an automated music license. In doing so, we first conducted a literature review synthesizing the intersection of music complexity and Web3 technologies to provide background and context to automating music licensing. Then we developed the Practical Tokenized Drafting (PTD) method, a set of core principles and practices for drafting Ricardian Contracts that interact with Web3 technologies (RC-Web3 Templates), and the Tokenized Music License (TML), an RC-Web3 Template standard form for music licensing on the OpenLaw platform. Both the PTD and TML can be adapted to meet the needs of music industry stakeholders and provide guidance to legal practitioners in drafting RC-Web3 Templates.\n Blockchain and the Rise of the Internet Cooperative\r#\r\r Cooperatives and blockchain projects appear to be unrelated until a deeper look is taken into blockchain projects and their associated communities. Cooperatives and blockchain projects both promote substantially similar principles and values centered around democratic member control and the freedom for individuals to come together for their own mutual benefit. There are two types of cooperativism which expressly account for the ability for blockchain to further cooperatives, platform cooperativism and open cooperativism. Further, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), take the combination of blockchain and cooperativism even further through the cooperative management of an entity that is created on, managed on, and solely exists on a blockchain. the inner workings of blockchain make it extremely suitable for meeting the seven principles and values that unite cooperatives across the world and for expanding cooperative values and principles from local communities to global movements.\n Writings\r#\r\rYou can find our writings (e.g., blog posts) in our LDCRC base table.\nProjects\r#\r\rDatabases and Search Engines\r#\r\rObservatory\r#\r\rObservatory is a comprehensive knowledge graph and search engine to discover people, organizations, events, problems, solutions, and more pertaining to emerging technologies and how they draw attention to human-centric futures. Primarily, you can think of the Observatory as your own personal research assistant.\nThe Observatory currently tracks:\n people (scholars, entrepeneurs, technologists, etc.), organizations (research labs, etc.), problems, solutions, media (podcasts, news, etc.), events, databases, dictionary (i.e., language or vocabulary), documents, talkspaces (i.e., online communities), and tools.  You can find a preview of the base on Airtable here. Additionally, you can find a graph visualization of the dictionary here. And the alpha website for the Observatory will be posted by Q3 2022.\nMoyo\r#\r\rMoyo is an educational directory and open data platform for educational materials (content, tools, etc.) to help you learn about Web3, Platform Cooperatives, and other fields so that you can better imagine and participate in designing the future. Eventually, we hope to develop an assistive tool to help personalize learning.\nYou can find the table here. And the alpha for Moyo can be found here.\nDistroid\r#\r\rThe Distroid newsletter is a commentary and curated digest covering research, news, events, videos \u0026amp; podcasts, and more on emerging technologies and their implications for the future.\nYou can find an example table for Distroid (specifically, Issue 19) here. The alpha for Distroid will be released soon.\nMobility and Sustainability\r#\r\rBikestream\r#\r\rBikestream is a project to develop a user-owned Internet of Things (IoT) platform that allows cyclists (and logistics companies) to collect and share their electric bicycle (including battery) and location data (“mobility data”).\nPrimarily, Bikestream is meant to help develop data-driven methods to make last-mile logistics better and greener.\nYou can find the Github repo here.\nDatabike Prototype\r#\r\rAdditionally, read our Databike Report to get a better idea of our prototype databike, a converted electric bicycle with a data logger that logs geolocation and electric bicycle data, developed under the project.\nData Logging Software\r#\r\rPython and Shell programs (intended for a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ in headless mode) for manipulating and streaming vehicle and geolocation data from an electric bicycle and smartphone to Streamr in real-time.\nGovernance and Organizational Design\r#\r\rDistributed Governance Score Framework\r#\r\rThe Distributed Governance Score Framework (DGSF) is a project for developing a theoretical basis on digital organizations, especially Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), from an organization science/design perspective, and developing analytical tools to assess various aspects of digital organizations.\nDAO Index\r#\r\rThe DAO Index is an analytical tool (specifically, a self-assessment questionnaire) and open database that builds on the theoretical background to assess how a DAO is implementing a set of core organizing principles (8 as of version 0.8 of the questionnaire) that are oriented towards the community organizational form, into their governance structures and disclosures, based on publicly available information.\nFor more information about the DAO Index, please read this Hackernoon post introducing the tool, and the DAO Index Airtable base covering organization design problems, current and past versions of the questionnaire (the current version is Version 0.9), and past evaluations with the questionnaire.\nTo get a better understanding of the DAO Index, please review the DAO Index Background Knowledge quiz.\nEarly-stage concepts\r#\r\rWeb3 and Platform Cooperatives\r#\r\rSome early-stage concepts from Charles on connecting Platform Cooperativism to Web3.\n "},{"id":19,"href":"/docs/mainsito/translation/","title":"Translation","section":"LDCRC","content":"Translating research on the frontiers into actionable insights\r#\r\rThe LDCRC\u0026rsquo;s Translation Office helps organizations and individuals in industry and the public understand the frontiers and how to use the knowledge generated from the frontiers in their own projects. These partnerships help us better understand how knowledge from the frontiers can meaningfully impact the broader world.\nIn our engagements, we identify knowledge from the frontiers that are most relevant to particular challenges and develop strategies to translate and disseminate knowledge accordingly.\nOur types of engagement currently include:\n Studio: work with a LDCRC member directly on a challenge Sponsorship: sponsor an LDCRC project Entrepeneur: partner with the LDCRC to find and develop entrepeneurial teams to translate knowledge from the frontiers.  If you would like to engage with the LDCRC on a translation project, please send an email to ledgerback@gmail.com.\n"},{"id":20,"href":"/docs/mainsito/volunteer/","title":"Volunteer","section":"LDCRC","content":"Help wanted\r#\r\rWe are looking for volunteers of all backgrounds to help investigate and apply emerging technologies and draw attention towards human-centric futures.\nTo volunteer for a project below, please complete this form.\nActive projects looking for volunteers\r#\r\rDistroid\r#\r\r Curator Summarizer  Marketer Partnerships Editor  Distributed Governance Score Framework\r#\r\rDAO Index\r#\r\r Research Assistant DAO Governance Design and Disclosure Ratings Assistant Marketer Partnerships Content Writer  Bikestream\r#\r\r Data Scientist Raspberry Pi (and potentially other hardware) Developer Partnerships Fundraiser Content Writer Research Assistant  Portal\r#\r\r Research Assistant Curator  Honors \u0026amp; Awards\r#\r\r Graphic Designer  Observatory\r#\r\r Data Entry Marketer Partnerships Data Engineer Front-end developer  Speaker Series\r#\r\r Events Organizer Assistant Content Writer Graphic Designer  "},{"id":21,"href":"/docs/shortcodes/section/","title":"Section","section":"Docs","content":"Section\r#\r\rSection renders pages in section as definition list, using title and description.\nExample\r#\r\r{{\u0026lt; section \u0026gt;}} \r\rFirst Page\r\rFirst page\r#\rLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 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