Last year Open Data Manchester held two workshops one in Berlin and the other in Manchester to explore whether cooperative structures could enable the creation of open data and personal data stores for mutual benefit. The idea of the mutual came out of an ongoing conversation between people within the cooperative movement and the open data world about the role of cooperatives, and the possibility that they could rebalance what many perceive as asymmetric relationship between data subjects (people with personal data) and data users (people who use data to develop services and products). This presentation covers some of the points discussed

1. Making a data cooperative
Julian Tait
16th April 2015
OpenData
Manchester
julian@thegarden.io
@julianlstar
CrowdFlow WiFi heat map

2. OpenData
Manchester

3. Data is the lifeblood of
our cities
OpenData
Manchester

4. OpenData
Manchester
Personal data production

5. We generate data we
have little or no power
over
OpenData
Manchester
“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

6. Abuse of power
OpenData
Manchester
People becoming more aware of the data that
they give away

7. OpenData
Manchester
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

8. OpenData
Manchester
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:

9. The birth of Personal
Information Management
Services (PIMS)
OpenData
Manchester
Decision support
services
Personal data
management and life
management services
£5 billion
£11.5 billion
1.2% UK economy
Ctrl Shift - Personal Information Management Services - An analysis
of an emerging market, 2014
Value of PIMS

10. OpenData
Manchester
Data warehouse
Data
subjects
City
data
Data
users
Data management

11. OpenData
Manchester
Cooperative of data
subjects
Data
coop
City
data
Data warehouse
Data
users

12. OpenData
Manchester
Multi-stakeholder
cooperative
Data
coop
Data
users

13. OpenData
Manchester
Multi-stakeholder
cooperative
Data
coop

14. OpenData
Manchester
Multi-stakeholder
cooperatives

15. Building trust
OpenData
Manchester
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

16. Building consent
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Manchester
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

17. Building consent through preferences
OpenData
Manchester

18. Building consent by proxy
OpenData
Manchester

19. Data literacy
OpenData
Manchester
The best way to build trust and consent
Empowering the disempowered
Allowing people to understand the decisions
they are making

20. OpenData
Manchester
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.

21. Thank you.
OpenData
Manchester
julian@thegarden.io
@julianlstar
Making a data cooperative
Julian Tait