The Cooperative World Map (CWM) is an interactive, up-to-date digital map that aims to unite and showcase all cooperative entities worldwide! Recently, we added some visual changes to worldmap.coop, highlighting which cooperatives on the map have been through a verification process with DotCoop to ensure that they are real, authentic cooperative businesses.
Why is this important? It comes hand in hand with a new channel we have opened for independent organisations to join the map! (more on that below…)
We can’t verify each and every one of the millions of cooperatives out there that may want to put themselves on the world map, so apart from basic checks, we allow organisations to self-certify for their place on worldmap.coop. We do, however, want to recognise those organisations that have chosen to use the co-op identity assets (the .coop and .creditunion domain names and the Cooperative Marque), as having been checked independently by our team as being a verified cooperative organisation.
So now you can spot them immediately! Verified cooperatives have a new orange tick marking their profile, plus each verified cooperative has a badge in their profile which shows they have been through this process with DotCoop. (Read more about how verification works here).
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