Platform Cooperativism
Proposes digital platforms owned and governed by the workers or other stakeholders who depend on them. Democratic control extends to platform rules, algorithms, data, and how the benefits of the enterprise are shared.
Reference boundary: A digital-economy institutional proposal. General economic equality answers cannot establish support for a specific cooperative business model.
Foundational doctrines
- Shared platform ownership
- Democratic governance
- Stakeholder co-design
Disagreement and variation
Cooperative ownership does not automatically solve financing, scale, competition, or unequal participation. The movement combines a specific ownership proposal with practical experimentation, rather than prescribing one complete political system.
Numerical positions in the interactive model are editorial reference estimates, not scientifically validated measurements.