How can we ensure that our data is processed in a good way? How can we protect individual privacy while using digital platforms for cooperative and nonprofit purposes? What institutional structures are appropriate for the collective management of data? In this town hall, we seek to explore common guidelines for democratic data governance projects in local economies. Our focus is on both platform cooperativism and platform municipalism in the smart city, two approaches that aim at providing digital infrastructures for certain communities while collecting masses of sensitive behavioral data. Drawing on concrete examples of data trusts and data cooperatives, we will discuss options of using, managing and protecting data as a commons, trying to tease out how data can be adopted by worker cooperatives as well as local authorities
Speakers
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Thorsten Dittmar Director, polypoly Cooperative
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Dominik Piétron Research Associate, Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin
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Arne Petersen Head of Product Design, polypoly Cooperative
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Javier Creus Co-founder, Salus Coop
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Christina Colclough Founder, The Why Not Lab
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Eva Schweitzer Deputy Head of Unit Digital Cities, Risk Prevention and Transportation, Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development