Here you will find a list of research questions our members have listed as we continue to explore the frontiers of collective action and commoning.
If you are interested in producing research based on any of the questions, please send an email to [email protected].
| Research Question | Area | Answered |
|---|---|---|
| How feasible is it to create a decentralized exchange for cooperative membership shares and goods and services? | Platform Cooperativism | |
| When should an organization consider a conversion to a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO)? | Distributed Governance | |
| Should cooperative industries be based on the Meta-organization model? | Platform Cooperativism | |
| When should communities and organizations implement Quadratic Voting? |
Distributed Governance |
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| Which organizational issues may DGov resolve? | Distributed Governance | |
| How to promote the cooperative model for data governance, sharing, and privacy? | Data Governance; Platform Cooperativism | |
| Can we use Self-sovereign identity technology to resolve issues surrounding the use of identity for access to services, benefits, etc? | Self-sovereign Identity | |
| Are DAO's a preferred organizational technology for businesses that provide risk-pooling services such as insurance? | Organizational Technology; Distributed Governance; Platform Cooperativism; Business Models | |
| Is it possible to create a directed acyclic graph (DAG) based ledger that will work with an interoperable blockchain framework, e.g., Cosmos? | Blockchain Architecture | |
| How to avoid the rise of oligarchies in decentralized governance and democratic membership organizations? | Platform Cooperativism; Distributed Governance | |
| How to turn uncooperative games into cooperative games via blockchain? | Mechanism Design |