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# Governance

* [https://disco.coop/](https://disco.coop/)

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_Principles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochdale_Principles)

“The earliest mutual organization established in the British North American colonies was created in 1735 in Charleston, SC” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cooperatives_in_the_United_States#18th_century](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cooperatives_in_the_United_States#18th_century)

“The Philadelphia Contributionship mutual insurance company, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1752, is the oldest continuing mutual insurance company in the continental United States. “

Coop says more about the governance (democracy + open membership) than the business model, IMO

* [https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2020/08/31/exit-community-community-primer](https://www.colorado.edu/lab/medlab/2020/08/31/exit-community-community-primer) 2020-08-31

* [https://platform.coop](https://platform.coop)

A cooperative is defined as an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.

Working through this now: more of a playbook [https://elements.disco.coop/](https://elements.disco.coop/)

* [SSI for Organizations: Who’s behind this DID?](https://iiw.idcommons.net/14G/_SSI_for_Organizations:_Who%27s_behind_this_DID_) by Dominic Wörner, Christian Bormann, Michael Schäfer ([video](https://eu01web.zoom.us/rec/play/hh2Uribpcy71pc7u0D_-7XCVoBmmC6feq22r4rgbnYBwnBnCd3Zib8l6WvhpOT0Esu5eFdhk00F38vaX.Z23dGksHI22vsdde?continueMode=true)

* [Public profile - Machine-readable, cryptographially-verifiable imprint linked to a DID](https://hackmd.io/4oZOgwFOQDSFUuu3ruN-_g)
  > a simple mechanism to provide public information concerning an entity by advertising a public profile service in the DID document of a public DID. A good analogy for this public identity information would be a machine-readable and cryptographically-verifiable imprint.

* [xkcd: PGP](https://xkcd.com/1181/)

* [https://github.com/Open-Notice/OPN-Workshop-05-04-21](https://github.com/Open-Notice/OPN-Workshop-05-04-21)

* [Crossfunctionality](https://docs.centre.io/blog/crossfunctionationality) Juan Caballero, Centre
  > Real progress is made by rich, cross-disciplinary teams and heterogeneous coalitions coming together to attack hard problems from every angle at once.