Unlike DAOs, DisCOs are not designed to scale, but to wildly replicate.
As a practice-oriented framework aimed at small groups wanting to federate and unite to create radical workplace democracy and meaningful organizations.
In short: DisCOs are primed for federation. DisCO needs more DisCOs to create true economic counterpower at a global scale.
Overview
As a practice-oriented framework aimed at small groups wanting to federate and unite to create radical workplace democracy and meaningful organizations. DisCO derives its power from all participating communities.
DisCOs are distributed and differentiated structures that replicate themselves through a standard federation protocol. The modularity of DisCO Value Tracking allows DisCOs to mutualize economic power (as well as other shared resources) for greater social impact. Each node retains the perks of small groups (levels of trust, mutual support and well-being), while also having access to collective resources by being part of a broader federated network with shared values and commitments. Each DisCO is unique and profoundly shaped by its circumstances and cultural context, but the cultural-structural template is shared among all of them across the DisCOverse
The DisCO framework is at its highest potential when DisCOs are interconnected and cross-pollinate with other DisCOs in an ecosystem. That’s how DisCOs can help create a real alternative and economic counterpower against predatory capitalism.
Examples
Guerrilla Translation is the first active node of a larger umbrella structure: the Guerrilla Media Collective. Its long-term goal is federation, an interconnected ecosystem of specialized nodes, each operating independently. Within the main DisCO (Guerrilla Media Collective) lie various nodes (Translation, Graphics, Agitprop, with future proposed iterations such as coding, facilitation and more). Each node has its own adaptations of the base governance model, but the value redistribution logic of livelihood, pro-bono and care work remains the same. GMC’s federation protocol further states that nodes cannot be larger than 15-20 people. As the translation node scales, the target Spanish, English and French nodes can become independent.
Cooperation Jackson reinvests most of their surpluses in the Jackson and Kush Districts (the contiguously Afrikan counties of western Mississippi). Surpluses are used to support new jobs and community development (through the use of social funds) and a social security system based on mutual solidarity and responsibility. They also help support cooperation with other institutions, advancing the cause of workers in Mississippi and collaborative efforts towards developing a transformative culture in Mississippi that can be readapted in other cultural contexts.
Why this is important
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Tensions
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Interactions with other principles
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More Resources
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TLDR
- DisCOs are designed for federation.
- DisCOs replicates itself, and while each node operates independently, all nodes share the basic culture, structure and value accounting model.