Data Together // @[email protected]

Data Together is an ongoing and inclusive conversation about data. Our monthly reading group focuses on the intersection of information and civic responsibility

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

EDGI supports the DWeb principles for a decentralized web, developed by @InternetArchive. Here’s to a future where technology supports thriving communities and a healthy planet.

Read about the principles: https://t.co/5A3w9O8qj7

[DWeb → ⁂ @[email protected] @GETDWeb]

Ready to connect the dots in the #Decentralized Web?

Tomorrow at 10am pacific/ 1 PM eastern:
https://t.co/7lthcmGexq

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

1/ Have you heard of Data Together? It’s a collaborative project of EDGI, @qri_io, and @protocollabs. The @Data_Together community discusses what community-driven stewardship of data looks like.

In 2020, the Data Together reading group examined:
https://t.co/vKYUJJni02

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

"Discussing values in a year that tests them", by @ifoundtheme, discusses our year in Data Together

https://t.co/aoeQRiHTRn

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

Who are the groups of people to whom we are connected in systems of governance? To whom do we owe allegiance? What is the role of Data Together?

https://t.co/zPCBURFmeY

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

How have particular implementations of data privacy policies impacted humans, economics, and legal systems? What are appropriate expectations around data privacy, and who should inform, create, or enforce policies?

https://t.co/2ysN6m4IhP

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

In the Trust conversation, we asked: New technologies attempt to free us from (data) monopolized spaces, but does cryptographic trust truly map onto or enable better human-to-human (or human-to-company or human-to-technology) trust?

https://t.co/eobzBSEo2I

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

Most of our data and information is controlled by a handful of companies. How did this come to be, what are examples of responsible and irresponsible holding of this power, and how do we imagine we might slip the trap of data monopolies?

https://t.co/6wzRZdCQnO

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

How do platforms balance freedom of expression versus consent to avoid offensive content, navigate algorithmic versus human moderation and curation, or incentivize different types of interaction? What are downstream effects of these choices?

https://t.co/IJb0BYamRt

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

How do choices in technology design and implementation reflect and impact broader social structures? We explore these questions starting with readings from environmental data justice and studies of algorithmic racism.
https://t.co/C9BiDpgfUz

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

We've been working on a series of blog posts of our conversations this year. The overarching theme is "polity": how do we think about collective identity and governance?

Expect posts daily starting on the 26th.

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

Want to have a discussion about civics + tech that actually isn't about the election? In a perhaps too-apropos twist of fate, our conversation "Polity" is today: https://t.co/1mrqbVOzZ3

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

Join us Tuesday for a discussion of Private Data & Policies! Readings are here: https://t.co/aJl3zoy58T

And here are the call details: https://t.co/Ld3BIsdkbt

[Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @EnviroDGI]

Mark your calendars: Sept 1-2 @ifoundtheme will be discussing EDGI's work with the decentralized web and data stewardship!

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

These are some of the questions we discussed in our reading group on Decentralization:

What is decentralization?

Do we want decentralization?

Are there limits to decentralization?

https://t.co/3G5bEyiqrD

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

Check out our reading group’s blog on Stewardship, which explores the definition of stewardship; proper use as a form of caretaking; longevity and the need for institutions; the necessity of curation; and care for the maintainers and stewards themselves.
https://t.co/gYLdB6tnDe

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

Join us in a week to talk about data monopolies! Readings here: https://t.co/wm7ThZHef8

[Sarah Friend @isthisanart_]

Our networks cfp is open and we just hosted our first community call in Mozilla Hubs. Proposals due June 1!

[Data Together // @[email protected] @Data_Together]

“If the levers of capitalism place it in opposition to just data practices, can we imagine an alternative? What systems are practiced or envisioned outside of capitalism? What is their power, and what do they center?”

https://t.co/WkDCzKMLxl

[The Matrix.org Foundation @matrixdotorg]

Brand new virtual meetup event next week!
Open Tech Will Save Us is a livestreamed event with speakers from Jitsi, IPFS and Matrix.

We'll cover the importance of preserving privacy and ways to keep your communications under control. Read more at https://t.co/2LUCQqxp3s