It is so interesting that regardless of the industry co-ops take root in, they face some of the same difficulties such as raising start-up seed money, delegating tasks within an egalitarian structure, accountability without having a boss as well as figuring out which decisions need everyone’s input and which decisions don’t.
You will also see how tech co-ops have unique challenges. Catalyst Cooperative is an all-remote, 8-person, tech worker cooperative based in North America. The co-op was founded in 2017 with the mission to make US energy systems’ data more accessible. Catalyst’s main objectives are to curate the free, open-source Public Utilities Data Liberation project (PUDL) .
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