It's been a year since I started researching data intermediaries. And I've discovered so many organizations working toward a fairer data economy; however, there's a trend in the ecosystem that worries me. 1/
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Generative AI models are trained and tested on collective data. Data governance *is* AI governance, which means leverage over data can translate into public input into AI.
Tools and pathways towards exercising this leverage at datalevers.org by
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This is your reminder that big tech's harms are the result of them accomplishing their main purpose: seeking the most profits to its investors.
We can't keep using corps for biz formations & expect different results.
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Data Intermediaries: An Urgent Need for Democratic Ownership and Governance by
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It’s no coincidence that the first advocates for data intermediaries proposed structuring them as cooperatives. Cooperatives reconcile diverging interests by granting complete ownership and control of the organization to its members.
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blog alert: data intermediaries
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It's been a year since I started researching data intermediaries. And I've discovered so many organizations working toward a fairer data economy; however, there's a trend in the ecosystem that worries me. 1/
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If you'd like to learn about recent developments in data collectives, data commons, and peer production licenses, join the PCC's April 5th Community Assembly:
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Thank you for the opportunity to publish this essay on the blog.
The PCC is a hub for research, community building, and advocacy for co-ops that make the digital transition.
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For inspiration, look to the following data cooperatives: , , , , , , , and
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It’s a feature that allows organizations to fulfill their mission without exploiting their members.
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OWNED AND GOVERNED BY THE PEOPLE PRODUCING DATA
It’s no coincidence that the first advocates for data intermediaries proposed structuring them as cooperatives. Coops reconcile diverging interests by granting complete ownership and control of the organization to its members.
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Owners’ interests will take precedence over those of the members who have no control over the intermediary.
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Owners will have to compensate members as little as possible for their data in order to generate profits. Members, on the other hand, will want the highest possible compensation for their data.
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IRRECONCILABLE INTERESTS
An intermediary organized as a traditional private company will inevitably have to exploit the people it tries to help.
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If data is labour then data intermediaries should treat their members as employees rather than users.
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DATA AS LABOR
To understand the issues that occur in the absence of democratic ownership and governance, it’s critical to treat data as labor rather than capital. Data, like other forms of labour, is generated through human activities requiring physical or mental effort.
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THE CONCERN
Data intermediaries incorporated as private companies without democratic ownership and governance vastly outweigh those organized as coops. And the former is experiencing rapid growth, fueled by VC. A form of financing incompatible with democratic principles.
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REMINDER
Due to the collective nature of data and to prevent owners of the data intermediaries from taking advantage of their members, early proponents of these entities, like Julian Tait, , Jaron Lanier, , and , advised structuring them as coops.
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A while back I shared a "data leverage roundup": a file on GitHub providing links to support "collective action that involves withholding, deleting, manipulating, and/or transferring data". I now have a greatly updated version to share for beta testing: datalevers.org
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Today, we are publishing the Collective Intelligence Project whitepaper, our R&D agenda for transformative tech governance.
It is our contribution to what we see as one of the world’s biggest problems. We couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. 1/
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🚢 We are proud to announce that the grant proposal (eGP 3: Euler Risk Tooling) has been completed!
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🚨 MAJOR UPDATE 🚨
warden.finance now supports !
We are thrilled to launch the first instalment of a new set of risk and analytics tools for Euler 🧵👇
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gm community 👋
We just released our set of risk and analytics tools for Aave at warden.finance ! You can now explore wallets and transactions, simulate liquidation prices and collateral at risk, and much more.
Thank you for your support 🚀
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Excited to get the Gud Souls Membership ! 🎉
Join me and my tribe on this journey as we build a better world together 🌎
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We're up for an grant and today is the last day to vote.
If you're an $OCEAN holder, we'd appreciate your support.
We encourage you to vote even if it's not for us. Lots of great projects this round. @datalatte_
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🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
We're excited to unveil our new branding: Shippooor is now Warden Finance!
We'll be sharing more details about our product very soon.
In the meantime, join the waitlist for early access to Warden👇
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gm from #WebSummit 👋
Stop by our stand to get a demo of Portal, the only marketplace in the world dedicated to zero-party data.
Pavilion: 4
Stand: B605
#DataUnions #ZeroPartyData #Web3
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We’re excited to be at #WebSummit Lisbon tomorrow (Nov 3)! Visit our stand, B605, in Pavilion 4 where we’ll be demoing Portal, the world’s first dedicated marketplace for zero-party data.
#DataUnions #ZeroPartyData #Web3
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Ep 491 - A rant about crypto shilling, DAOs, journalism, owning data as food for A.I. Will A.I. be our masters forcing us into a predestined fate? Will we control our data as food for A.I. and be the owners of our own free will & destiny? Full video here: youtu.be/nhVBMCIc1jQ
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Will your children be able to access your photos? Will archeologists in 1000 years be able to read your tweets?
It's time we start demanding permanent storage for our data. cc
re-public.io/blog/humans-ne
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Once you know what an API is, you want all you devices to have one. But most won’t make one or they’ll lock it down to try and keep you on their platform.
We’re here to build them for you and find the win-win scenarios for companies and users. Great thread!
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I believe that companies collecting data about me should share it back as an API.
But it’s much, much more complicated than that in practice.
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. joins Pool Data as Strategic Advisor
Yang, a leading political figure, entrepreneur and technologist, will work with Pool to bring fair data collection, control and monetization through data unions.
Find out more: pooldata.io/blog/andrew-ya
#DataUnions
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Many people are scratching their heads as to what Re-Public has to do with #ReFi, #DeSci, and climate solutions. So here's a concrete example. cc
re-public.io/blog/how-a-cli
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Data unions can get mass adoption!
Read our latest blog post to learn about the key findings of the #dataunions research we commissioned 👇
pooldata.io/blog/data-unio
#Data #DataProtection #Web3
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Latest text by my hand: What does it mean: users in full control over their data? linkedin.com/pulse/what-doe
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Anyone interested in translating an important announcement in the / Plurality communities coming out next week to appear jointly in their language and English, please write to me at glen@radicalxchange.org.
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1/3 Today is Labor Day. Today is also a day to recommit ourselves to social justice in the platform economy. It's the day when American workers demonstrate for their rights.
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What is Re-Public’s North Star?
What have we been up to these past few weeks?
More than you ever wanted to know right here:
re-public.io/blog/re-cap-oc
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Ep 485 - You're giving away your data whether you know it or not. Earn from it & decide who gets to use it! I read an article by the undertherose.substack.com blog that introduces me to #Psychography and relate it to Re-Public.io Thanks youtu.be/loK9BdS9Xic
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Whoa! RT'd this before without realizing we actually won the grant. Mucho pumped!
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#5 Ocean Integration with @republicdao
Re-public.io is a rising project in the space of self-sovereign data monetization, deeply integrated with @streamr, also @dataunions, also @developer_dao. This'll bring Re-Public App user data to Ocean Market.
Lead:
@kaxline 
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