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/
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 http://datalevers.org by
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.
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.
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/
https://platform.coop/blog/data-intermediaries-an-urgent-need-for-democratic-ownership-and-governance/…
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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: http://datalevers.org
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 encourage you to vote even if it's not for us. Lots of great projects this round. @datalatte_
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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.
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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: https://youtu.be/nhVBMCIc1jQ
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
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!
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: https://pooldata.io/blog/andrew-yang-announcement…#DataUnions
Latest text by my hand: What does it mean: users in full control over their data? https://linkedin.com/pulse/what-does-mean-users-full-control-over-data-onno-hansen-staszy%25C5%2584ski/…
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.
#5 Ocean Integration with @republicdaohttp://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