Research
LedgerbackØDCRC carries out basic research on the internet and society (i.e., the network society).
Themes and Tracks
Here is a list of non-exhaustive themes that permeate through the work here at LedgerbackØDCRC.
Web3 technologies
P2P/Commons
Digital Citizenship
Data-driven economy and technologies
Information Privacy and Security
Digital Infrastructure
Collective Intelligence
Platform Cooperativism
Free and open source technologies
Complex systems
Decentralization
Digital Identity
Organizing
Online Governance
Complex Systems
The themes can then be further divided into tracks, e.g., Digital Labor under Platform Cooperativism.
Structure
Our research is structured into departments, which primarily take on themes, and then labs, which take on tracks under themes, and then working groups which conduct projects.
Our operational structure is divided into departments and labs.
Departments oversee basic research into a theme and its associated tracks. In departments, members self-manage governance, financing and operations of their research and educational pursuits.
In labs, members conduct basic research, form collaboratives (with external researchers and institutes) and working groups (for projects with deliverables).
Current Departments
Knowledge Commons
Platform Cooperativism
Emerging Technologies
Solidarity Project
Cryptoeconomics
Open Finance
Approaches
At LedgerbackØDCRC, we strive to promote open science, multifaceted (inter/multi/disciplinary approaches, i.e., working towards antidisciplinary) and participatory approaches in our research while accruing benefits from advances in related and unrelated fields as they may apply in the network society.
As such, you may find our articles and ongoing research published in open access repositories, labs in different disciplines working together, and the use of participatory methods including crowdsourcing to encourage citizen and industry participation.
Additionally, we also use the following approaches:
problem-centered
human-centered
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