from email:
Prof. Alex (Sandy) Pentland’s keynote speech to the Scotsman 2020 Data Conference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ920kSKvEU
Some background: Pentland’s research group has long been looking at how data can be used to understand how communities thrive —- improving bus routes to better reflect where the people in neighborhoods are going and when is one example —- and he’s looking at data-governance from a people-centric perspective. Part of his idea is that people’s data unions will hold and aggregate their data (just as a credit union holds and aggregates members’ money), and will use it for the purposes agreed to by its members.
He’s got a book coming out, much of which is available online: https://wip.mitpress.mit.edu/new-economy