[kictanet] Fwd: [Internet Policy] Interview with Parminder on community ownership of data

[Barrack Otieno]

Listers,

Interesting perspective on community ownership of data. I would appreciate
feedback from our tech Lawyers @Victor Kapiyo <vkapiyo at gmail.com> @Rosemary
Koech-Kimwatu <chemukoechk at gmail.com> @Francis Monyango
<monyango93 at gmail.com>

Regards

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From: Richard Hill via InternetPolicy <internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:25 PM
Subject: [Internet Policy] Interview with Parminder on community ownership
of data
To: <internetpolicy at elists.isoc.org>


People on this list might be interested in this conversation with
Parminder, which was just published by ALAI:

"It’s time to talk about data politics and economic rights" at:

  https://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/205631

Also in Spanish: "Es hora de hablar de política de datos y derechos
económicos" at

 https://www.alainet.org/en/node/205632

The interview took place following the launch of the Just Net Digital
Manifesto, available at:

  https://justnetcoalition.org/digital-justice-manifesto

Here are a couple of excerpts from the cited interview:

"...although there is no law on ownership of data and people don’t want to
talk about it, the fact is that the large data corporations consider the
data that they collect as theirs; and then guard it behind technical walls
as their de facto property.... if we let this default ownership practice go
on for much longer, it will become quasi law, and may even be accepted into
law, because the digital relationships and structures would all be quite
entrenched, and almost impossible to reverse."

Concerning the difference with intellectual property rights, that favour
companies:

"...in the case of ‘ideas’, they are out there for anyone to share and
copy, whereby corporations wanted law and ownership regimes to stop such
free sharing. In case of data, it is already with corporations, behind its
technology walls, and inaccessible to others, including those who
contributed the data and to whom the data refers. Corporations do not need
law in this case for exclusive appropriation. It is the data source and
data subject people and communities who want a ‘data ownership’ regime to
employ law to get access to their own data."

Best,
Richard


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