Open Data Cooperation - Beyond Data

Making a data cooperativeJulian Tait

16th April 2015

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julian@thegarden.io@julianlstar

CrowdFlow WiFi heat map

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Data is the lifeblood of our cities

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Personal data production

We generate data we have little or no power

over

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“to open all municipal data so Google can use it to become everyone’s perfect personal assistant - an invisible entity that knows what you want before you do.”

Google’s wish...

Margo Georgiadis - President of the Americas, Google - Chicago Metropolitan Planning Council 2013

Abuse of power

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People becoming more aware of the data that they give away

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Facebook implied market capitalisation per record between 2006 - 2012 = $40 - $300

OECD - Exploring the Economics of Personal Data: A Survey of Methodologies for Measuring Monetary Value, 2013

The value of data

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Facebook implied market capitalisation per record between 2006 - 2012 = $40 - $300

OECD - Exploring the Economics of Personal Data: A Survey of Methodologies for Measuring Monetary Value, 2013

The value of data

• Street address $0.50

• Date of birth $2.00

• Drivers license $3.00

• Social security number $8.00

• Military record $35.00

Buying data:

The birth of Personal Information Management

Services (PIMS)

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Decision support services

Personal data management and life management services

£5 billion

£11.5 billion

1.2% UK economyCtrl Shift - Personal Information Management Services - An analysis of an emerging market, 2014

Value of PIMS

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Data warehouse

Datasubjects

Citydata

Datausers

Data management

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Cooperative of data subjects

Datacoop

Citydata

Data warehouseDatausers

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Multi-stakeholder cooperative

Datacoop

Datausers

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Multi-stakeholder cooperative

Datacoop

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Multi-stakeholder cooperatives

Building trust

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The cooperative is owned or managed by its members

In a multi-stakeholder environment there is the potential for service providers and data users to work together

Building consent

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A data cooperative should maintain an agreed ethical position in order to maintain consent

Challenging in a multi-stakeholder environment or at scale

Novel ways of building consent

Building consent through preferences

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Building consent by proxy

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Data literacy

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The best way to build trust and consent

Empowering the disempowered

Allowing people to understand the decisions they are making

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Summary

1. are owned by their membership and should be more accountable;

2. have the potential to halt the over collection of data;

3. can create value for the membership;

4. can form around single issues or scale with many data subjects;

5. can be representative and affect change;

6. can help the membership be more data literate;

7. can liberate data through statutory processes;

8. can encourage better data and context to be produced;

9. build trust and consent and;

10. can be created from city data as well as personal data.

Thank you.

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julian@thegarden.io@julianlstar

Making a data cooperativeJulian Tait