I am quite confident some working in the world of data trusts would have significant objections to my likening of one with the other.
For instance, collector-centric data trusts can be used to enable data sharing between healthcare trusts, improving patient outcomes, or between local businesses, allowing communities saudi arabia rcs data to benefit from and innovate with their local data. But as Srnicek argues, the digital economy is towards consolidation of data resources, and so it would equally be a mistake to discuss data trusts without considering how these ideas may develop and evolve.
As a concluding statement, I do not believe any model is necessarily superior to another. All have advantages, and all would/do create significant economic and social challenges.
To be sure, the superplatform isn’t a data trust, collector-centric is otherwise.
In my opinion, the benefit of these models is not in choosing one and advocating for it, but in the realisation that by understanding the components, entities and actors that form the digital economy, we can re-arrange the digital economy to align with our objectives as a society.
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