research.md

Research

Research Themes

LCRC has been organized into 6 research groups based on our research themes:

• Collective Action and Commoning
• Identity and Data Sovereignty
• Emerging Technologies
• Digital Economy
• Mechanism Design
• Knowledge Production

Research Programmes

The LCRC is organized into 6 research programmes

1. Solidarity Project
2. Open Finance
3. Platform Cooperativism
4. Cryptoeconomics
5. Emerging Technologies
6. Knowledge Commons

Solidarity Project

The Solidarity Project programme is focused on distributed governance, organizational technology, organization design, digital democracy, and other related topics.

Open Finance

The Open Finance programme is focused on alternative finance, decentralized finance, open finance, digital money, community currencies, social money, and other related topics.

Platform Cooperativism

The Platform Cooperativism programme is focused on cooperativism in the digital economy, data sovereignty, identity sovereignty, commons-based peer production, and other related topics.

Cryptoeconomics

The Cryptoeconomics programme is focused on cryptoeconomic protocols, mechanism design, game theory, data science, network analysis, systems innovation, and other related topics.

Emerging Technologies

The Emerging Technologies programme is focused on blockchain use cases, proof-of-concepts, cryptography, applied technologies, and other related topics.

Knowledge Commons

The Knowledge Commons programme is focused on open science, open data, open access, knowledge infrastructure, peer production, scholarly commons, and other related topics.

Articles

All the articles below may be found on our Medium Blog.

Blockchain (aka Distributed Ledgers)

Energy:

• Trading Energy: Will Blockchain disrupt the energy industry?

Employee Loyalty Programs:

• Blockchain and Employee Loyalty Programs: Has PayPal shown the way forward?
• Employee Loyalty Programs: How does blockchain add value?

Education:

• The Age of Digital Diplomas: Is the education sector leading the way in blockchain adoption?
• The Age of Digital Diplomas: Will Blockcerts become the global standard?

Creative Industries:

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Federated Social Networks ("Fediverse")

Mastodon Federated Social Network:

• Bi-social Networks

Distributed Governance

Community Intellectual Property

• Collective Trademarks for Blockchain Communities?

Community Documents

• We the Nodes: Can Constitutions Unite Blockchain Communities?

Data Privacy

• My Data! My Rules

Micro-mobility

• __The Electric Scooter Uprising__

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