Data Stewardship

Description

Trebor Scholz:

"In the extraction model, personal data is a raw material pulled from users to fuel proprietary models. This logic treats people not as participants or rights-holders but as passive sources of value. The solidarity stack reimagines data as a shared resource managed through democratic stewardship."

(https://ssir.org/articles/entry/artificial-intelligence-solidarity-ecosystem)

Example

MIDATA, Switzerland

Trebor Scholz:

"For example, MIDATA, a Swiss health data platform owned and governed by patients who contribute and rely on their own medical information, operates as a fiduciary for its members. It maintains a secure infrastructure in which patients can view their aggregated data and democratically decide whether or not to share it for medical research. MIDATA demonstrates that creating high-quality, ethically sourced datasets is possible without surveillance; members willingly share their data because they trust the cooperative’s governance and data stewardship, eliminating the need for extraction or coercive monitoring."

(https://ssir.org/articles/entry/artificial-intelligence-solidarity-ecosystem)