Data Cooperatives to Strengthen Digital Citizenship

IGI Global eBooks, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 533 - 568

Published: Feb. 12, 2025

This chapter explores the concept of data cooperatives as an innovative organizational form in modern economy. Data enable citizens to collectively manage, control, and use their achieve collective benefits. The highlights definition principles cooperatives, central functions, necessary technical infrastructure for implementation. It shows how can help strengthen digital citizenship, promote innovation, a fairer distribution benefits use. challenges limitations this model are also discussed. practical implementation various areas is illustrated based on examples. argues that represent promising reducing power asymmetries current economy shaping fairer, more transparent, democratic future, thereby instilling sense security trust audience.

Language: Английский

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Why data about people are so hard to govern

Regulation & Governance, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 1, 2024

Abstract How data on individuals are gathered, analyzed, and stored remains largely ungoverned at both domestic global levels. We address the unique governance problem posed by digital to provide a framework for understanding why elusive. Data easily transferable replicable, making them useful tool. But this characteristic creates massive problems all of us who want have some agency choice over how (or if) our collected used. Moreover, co‐created: object from which culled an interested party. Yet, any point has marginal value close zero thus little bargaining power when it comes negotiating with collectors. Relatedly, follow rule winner take all—the parties that most can leverage greater accuracy utility, leading natural oligopolies. Finally, data's lies in combination proprietary algorithms analyze predict patterns. Given these characteristics, private solutions ineffective. Public will also likely be insufficient. The imbalance market between platforms collect reproduced political sphere. conclude form collective is required. examine challenges looking public effort, EU's General Protection Regulation, Apple's “privacy nutrition labels” their App Store, First Nations Information Governance Centre Canada.

Language: Английский

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Data as a Contested Commodity

Global Jurist, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 11, 2024

Abstract Data are undoubtedly a contested commodity. On the one hand, data commodification is largely under way including through operation of law. This notably visible with new EU policy (Data Strategy followed by Act, Governance Act) that aims to establish markets in keeping European values. other this phenomenon heavily based on wide range different arguments, which have not been subjected systematic clustering. often understood simplistically as binary and monolithic whereby would be either ‘commodified’ or not. leads misunderstandings ways it manifests. For example, many conceptual surround relationship between ‘data access’ sharing’ markets. paper clarifies commodification, approaching spectrum degrees following M. J. Radin (Contested Commodities, 1996). Following Radin, clusters governance arguments – even paradigms found literature along spectrum. A specific attention paid importance market discourses dynamics, especially The offers novel synthesis normative commons, trusts, sharing, intermediation, against background phenomenon. brings clarity allows bring together strands (especially welfare economics, law critical studies, infrastructure studies) comprehensively, while they until now remained siloed. greatly benefit from taking into account (conceptual and/or normative) literature. can also used evaluate how legislations relate take specificities data, thus enabling for more analysis. finds actually very commodity: conceptualization commodity ontologically contestable. framework situations conceptualized whether ones indeed play powerful but invisible discursive role dynamics. Finally, identification regulation ‘data’ alone necessarily about certain affordances.

Language: Английский

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Overcoming Trust and Incentive Barriers in Decentralized AI

Published: Oct. 28, 2024

Language: Английский

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Data as a Contested Commodity

SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Data are undoubtedly a contested commodity. On the one hand, data commodification is largely under way including through operation of law. This notably visible with new EU policy (Data Strategy followed by Act, Governance Act) that aims to establish markets in keeping European values. other this phenomenon heavily based on wide range different arguments, which have not been subjected systematic clustering. often understood simplistically as binary and monolithic whereby would be either 'commodified' or not. leads misunderstandings ways it manifests. For example, many conceptual surround relationship between 'data access' sharing' markets. paper clarifies commodification, approaching spectrum degrees following M. J. Radin (Contested Commodities, 1996). Following Radin, clusters governance arguments - even paradigms found literature along spectrum. A specific attention paid importance market discourses dynamics, especially The offers novel synthesis normative commons, trusts, sharing, intermediation, against background phenomenon. brings clarity allows bring together strands (especially welfare economics, law critical studies, infrastructure studies) comprehensively, while they until now remained siloed. greatly benefit from taking into account (conceptual and/or normative) literature. can also used evaluate how legislations relate take specificities data, thus enabling for more analysis. finds actually very commodity: conceptualization commodity ontologically contestable. framework situations conceptualized whether ones indeed play powerful but invisible discursive role dynamics. Finally, identification regulation 'data' alone necessarily about certain affordances.

Language: Английский

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