Part 1, about tactical lessons from Sweatcoin’s success, can be found here What will attract people to a data union? How are people best incentivised to join an organisation whose purpose is to aggregate and unlock the value of their data? …

For years people have been waiting for a clear winner to emerge in the data union space. Can it work to ask people to share data as a collective, usually around a particular vertical like cars, IoT, or health, and then remunerate them enough to attract more members? More members…

A vision for a mobile and web-based application, controlled by private keys that permission control of tokens in an Ethereum wallet and also govern read and write controls to a cloud-based, decentralised data store. Why Pocket? A pocket is where you keep your most essential and intimate belongings. It’s where you store…

You know that either the government is fresh out of ideas or the economy really is heading for disaster when, instead of reaching for any number of macroeconomic tools at its disposal, the go-to policy for the people in charge of the money is first to distribute cash handouts to…

Ask anyone who works with consumer data and analytics, and they will confirm that their industry is facing an existential crisis. Tech monopolies teeter on the edge of public acceptance even as their information grab continues apace. Regulators are ready to hit back with anti-competitive measures, privacy laws and further…

Across the globe, regulating Big Tech is all the rage. Facebook recently backed down against the Australian government’s new law requiring the Silicon Valley giants to pay for news they link to on their sites. India has already introduced a 2% digital services tax on non-resident companies. …

As the launch of the Data Unions 2.0 framework draws near we thought we’d do a roundup of all that has happened on the Data Union front for the last 12 months. This time last year, just as the lockdown was about to hit a good proportion of countries around…

1). How are Data Unions ethically different from Big Tech, seeing as they are trading user data? Yes users can consent, but why get involved in this sordid industry at all Firstly, consent is a big deal. At the moment, the data broking industry does not work on the basis of informed and overt consent. People are pressured into signing away permissions which are themselves buried on page 34, subsection B of a 62-page contract. It’s fake consent. …

Streamr’s Head of Growth, Shiv Malik recently held an AMA on Data Unions for the GAINS Telegram community. Their questions led to an insightful discussion that we’ve condensed into this blog post. What is the project about in a few simple sentences? At Streamr we are building a real-time network for tomorrow’s data economy. It’s a decentralized, peer-to-peer network which…