Benjamin Peters is assistant professor of communication at the University of Tulsa, and affiliated faculty at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. His latest book is How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (2016). You can read an excerpt here.
A key element of the Fair-Coop vision is a cryptocurrency, Faircoin, which has been designed to adapt the block-chain technology of Bitcoin with a more socially constructive design.
"The biggest unsolved, but acknowledged, problem is getting the resources to build platforms that can compete with venture capital-funded platforms. ... The answer can be simple. The Black Star Coop brewery and restaurant in Austin, Texas, is owned by its customer-members while the workers manage it."
M. Prilla, and C. Ritterskamp. Cooperative Systems Design. Seamless Integration of Artifacts and
Conversations - Enhanced Concepts of Infrastructure for CommunicationProceedings
of COOP 2006., volume 137 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, (2006)
A. Richter, and M. Koch. Proc. Intl. Conf. on the Design of Cooperative Systems 2008, page 87-98. Carry-le-Rouet, France, Institut d'Etudes Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, (May 2008)
A. Richter, and M. Koch. Proc. Intl. Conf. on the Design of Cooperative Systems 2008, page 87-98. Carry-le-Rouet, France, Institut d'Etudes Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, (May 2008)