On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:01 AM Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov < [email protected]> wrote:
> On data trustees: The idea is that citizens should be able to donate their > data (including private data in some cases) for the public good. This > should be handled by some entity that can guarantee safe and respectful > reuse of that data and for it to be used really for the public good and not > for private profit. > > But while it would be good to have such an animal, there are no clear > ideas on how to set it up, who should run it and how it should operate. > There’s a lot of ideas, maybe no best practices? Happy to introduce anyone interested here to Sean McDonald, who has written a lot on this and is interested in/big fan of Wikipedia (though I think not an editor?) https://www.cigionline.org/person/sean-mcdonald Real world example from, of all people, Facebook: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/publications/blt/2020/01/purpose-trust/ FWIW! Luis
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