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Governance
“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
“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
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/
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SSI for Organizations: Who’s behind this DID? by Dominic Wörner, Christian Bormann, Michael Schäfer (video
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Public profile - Machine-readable, cryptographially-verifiable imprint linked to a DID
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.
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Crossfunctionality 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.