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Data cooperative
A data cooperative is a group of individuals voluntarily pooling together their data. As an entity, a data cooperative is a type of data infrastructure, formed through the voluntary and collaborative pooling efforts of individuals. Data cooperatives allow individuals to get paid for the data they create and to exercise more pricing power than they would have on their own or in an- other type of data exchange. Examples include cooperatives of music artists, video producers, and gig workers. The income is not a subsidy, but rather the result of individual economic activity channeled through exchanges that aggregate the data of producers and workers, thereby turning individuals into data entrepreneurs. As a data infrastructure, data cooperatives are created, owned and operated by community members, and this enables the communities, and its members, to have full control over their data, and the decisions that are made by the insights gathered from the data. By giving individual community members control over their data, data cooperatives are a new and innovative type of data infrastructure, that act as a counter weight against data brokers and data driven corporations.
One key aspect of data cooperatives is that the individual members of a data cooperative have control and legal ownership over their data. As a key aspect, ownership rights also refers to the notion that all members of a data cooperative must be able to collect copies of their data. This can be done either automatically through electronic means (e.g. passive data-traffic copying software on their devices) or it can be done by manually uploading data files to the cooperative. The data that is collected is stored in a members personal data store (PDS). Within an individual's personal data store, members have the ability to add, remove or restrict access to personal data.[citation needed]
This key aspect of data cooperatives refers to the legally bound obligations that cooperatives have to its members. Data cooperatives are member owned and member run, and there needs to be a set of rules (bylaws), that govern the cooperative, and have been agreed on by all members. The main factor that these rules cover are policies regarding the usage and or access of member owned data.
This key aspect refers to the overall desired goals outcomes of a data cooperative. Data cooperatives must provide benefit to all members of the cooperative. Data cooperatives accomplish this by analyzing the data and identifying useful insights amongst the data, that is then shared to the members of the cooperative.
Within contemporary societies, "data" - as a commodity - is continuously becoming more valuable. Over the past decade, the control of data has been concentrated between a limited number of actors, such as; 'big tech' companies (e.g. Facebook & Google) and government entities. By forming a data cooperative, citizens can actively establish themselves as stakeholders within the world's data economy. Through creating stakeholders, data cooperatives contribute to evening out the data power imbalances by competing against, and impeding on the data monopolies that the 'big tech' companies and government entities have.[citation needed]
"All of this [data] has value to the producer, and when the producer gains control over that value, incentives will be transformed; a market participant will try to persuade the buyer to spend money with them instead of paying monopolistic platforms to manipulate a targeted person." - A Blueprint for a Better Digital Society (2018)
The three main entities that make up a data cooperative are:
In their 2018 article in the Harvard Business Review, computer scientist Jaron Lanier and political economist Glen Weyl propose a new type of legal entity to enable data cooperativism: Mediators of Individual Data (MIDs). MIDs, they argue, could offer an institutional innovation for enabling data cooperativism by bridging the gap between users and digital platforms. MIDs would act as fiduciaries, managing data on behalf of individuals and groups while ensuring transparency, privacy, and equitable benefit-sharing. They provide an essential legal and operational framework work data cooperatives by:
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Data cooperative
A data cooperative is a group of individuals voluntarily pooling together their data. As an entity, a data cooperative is a type of data infrastructure, formed through the voluntary and collaborative pooling efforts of individuals. Data cooperatives allow individuals to get paid for the data they create and to exercise more pricing power than they would have on their own or in an- other type of data exchange. Examples include cooperatives of music artists, video producers, and gig workers. The income is not a subsidy, but rather the result of individual economic activity channeled through exchanges that aggregate the data of producers and workers, thereby turning individuals into data entrepreneurs. As a data infrastructure, data cooperatives are created, owned and operated by community members, and this enables the communities, and its members, to have full control over their data, and the decisions that are made by the insights gathered from the data. By giving individual community members control over their data, data cooperatives are a new and innovative type of data infrastructure, that act as a counter weight against data brokers and data driven corporations.
One key aspect of data cooperatives is that the individual members of a data cooperative have control and legal ownership over their data. As a key aspect, ownership rights also refers to the notion that all members of a data cooperative must be able to collect copies of their data. This can be done either automatically through electronic means (e.g. passive data-traffic copying software on their devices) or it can be done by manually uploading data files to the cooperative. The data that is collected is stored in a members personal data store (PDS). Within an individual's personal data store, members have the ability to add, remove or restrict access to personal data.[citation needed]
This key aspect of data cooperatives refers to the legally bound obligations that cooperatives have to its members. Data cooperatives are member owned and member run, and there needs to be a set of rules (bylaws), that govern the cooperative, and have been agreed on by all members. The main factor that these rules cover are policies regarding the usage and or access of member owned data.
This key aspect refers to the overall desired goals outcomes of a data cooperative. Data cooperatives must provide benefit to all members of the cooperative. Data cooperatives accomplish this by analyzing the data and identifying useful insights amongst the data, that is then shared to the members of the cooperative.
Within contemporary societies, "data" - as a commodity - is continuously becoming more valuable. Over the past decade, the control of data has been concentrated between a limited number of actors, such as; 'big tech' companies (e.g. Facebook & Google) and government entities. By forming a data cooperative, citizens can actively establish themselves as stakeholders within the world's data economy. Through creating stakeholders, data cooperatives contribute to evening out the data power imbalances by competing against, and impeding on the data monopolies that the 'big tech' companies and government entities have.[citation needed]
"All of this [data] has value to the producer, and when the producer gains control over that value, incentives will be transformed; a market participant will try to persuade the buyer to spend money with them instead of paying monopolistic platforms to manipulate a targeted person." - A Blueprint for a Better Digital Society (2018)
The three main entities that make up a data cooperative are:
In their 2018 article in the Harvard Business Review, computer scientist Jaron Lanier and political economist Glen Weyl propose a new type of legal entity to enable data cooperativism: Mediators of Individual Data (MIDs). MIDs, they argue, could offer an institutional innovation for enabling data cooperativism by bridging the gap between users and digital platforms. MIDs would act as fiduciaries, managing data on behalf of individuals and groups while ensuring transparency, privacy, and equitable benefit-sharing. They provide an essential legal and operational framework work data cooperatives by: