Data Union Fork: Tools for a data strike!

Waag operates at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. Our work focuses on emergent technologies as instruments of social change, and is guided by the values of fairness, openness and inclusivity. Waag’s dedicated team of sixty thinkers and makers empowers people to become active citizens through technology.Waag opereert al 25 jaar op het kruispunt van kunst, wetenschap en technologie. Het verkent de sociale en culturele impact van nieuwe technologieën en hun toepassing voor sociale innovatie. Met een team van ruim zestig denkers en makers zet Waag aan tot actief burgerschap door open, eerlijke en inclusieve technologie te ontwikkelen.

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In this workshop by <A HREF="https://waag.org/en/larisa-blazic" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Larisa Blazic</A>, participants are invited to explore ways to reclaim individual data rights and establish collective ownership over their data. The first in the series is a discursive exploration to address wider accessibility and an attempt to collectively visualise process through "example mapping". During the workshop participants are invited to explore collective bargaining in labour union tradition and its possible hybridisation with DECODE project concepts.
Are you an artist, a developer, data activist, or a concerned citizen? Join this workshop! You don’t need any specific technical expertise to join. Two follow up workshops will be organized to work towards completing the discovery phase of the residency.
Entrance is 5 euro, including one drink. The workshop will be English spoken.
About Larisa Blazic, artist in residence at Waag & DECODE
Larisa Blazic, a London based digital artisan, educator and feminist hacker. In her most recent work, Data Union Fork, as part of <A HREF="https://vertigo.starts.eu/calls/2017-2/residencies/data-union-fork-tools-for-data-strike/detail/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Vertigo STARTS Residency</A>at Waag she explores collective response to personal data abuses by state and corporate sector, based on the <A HREF="https://decodeos.dyne.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DECODE OS</A>, operating system. It is a proposal to conceptualise, articulate and co-create an assertive "smart contract" model enabling an additional protective layer of citizens’ digital rights.
<H4>More about the Data Union Fork:</H4>
We believe that there is a need for mass organised collective action regarding data: to defend and manage personal and population-wide data. Through a series of interventions, workshops and events, Data Union Fork, sets to develop a collective, creative, and democratic response to the social, economic, and cultural implications of mass scale data harvesting and to fully leverage the value of that data in the interests of democracy, equality, and justice.
In this project, citizens, activists, legislators, technologists and artists come together in discussion, examining efficacy of everyday behavioural tactics relating to data, surveillance and autonomy to enable anonymity, data disruption and pollution, autonomous organisation, value negotiation.
<H4>About DECODE project</H4>
Today’s Internet is becoming increasingly centralised, slowing innovation and challenging its potential to revolutionise society and the economy in a pluralistic manner. <A HREF="https://decodeproject.eu/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">DECODE</A>is a project in which practical alternatives will be developed for managing online identity, personal and other data and collective governance in a citizen-friendly and privacy-aware fashion
Data Union Fork: Tools for data strike is supported by the VERTIGO project as part of the STARTS program of the European Commission, based on technological elements from DECODE, with the support of Waag and Dyne.
DECODE project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 732546.

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