Data Commons: Meet the Working Group

Hello!

Data commons and the collaborative city
This workshop brings together the topics of control of (civic) data and the collaborative economic models that depend on online platforms. There is increasing interest in exploring alternatives that respect data and promote its civic control, taking into account possibilities for different modes of production & collection of this data. In what way can we facilitate data management and control in line with the social common good?
The workshop will take into account how regulations and policies on open source and open data, on the one hand, and those on technology and decentralized infrastructure, on the other, can play a role in facilitating data sovereignty and new forms of local cooperativism.
Moving away from large corporation and capital-led city development, we have to rethink the Smart City model and imagine data commons that socialise the value of data. How do initiatives like guifinet and Fairbnb fit in? The starting point for the workshop will be recent experiences in Barcelona and Amsterdam.

We'd like to start preparing the workshop a bit here. Looking forward!

@thomasdegroot

I am interested ... any idea about the place and time of the workshop?

Hi there, this will be during Madrid on the Thursday(26) and Friday(27) October in Medialabprado
Pity you can't make it but great to have you participate here! Maybe a way to get the digital /internat commons group active again.

Maybe we should integrate, at least guidon what's already been done there.

Very interesting initiative.

Hey everyone, I will be joining on behalf of Wikimedia España. Looking forward to working with you all :)

Hello, everyone! Thanks, Nicole, for starting this thread. I will participate in this session as a commoner from the US who wants to listen and learn, and as a representative of Holochain / Holo (a post-blockchain technology / its distributed hosting ecosystem) in Portugal.

Can't wait. Cheers!