"Challenging digital colonialism: how can governments capture the value of data labor?" 4 November 2019 

Advocates for digital rights have put forth…proposals for how to ensure that ‘data labor’ can be fairly compensated...What’s needed is taxation based on the value of what citizens on aggregate generate in each country.

Data is a renewable resource, but companies do not reinvest it in societies …Countries including the US could easily create a ‘data commons’ managed by entities with strict ethical protocols in place, such as the US National Institutes of Health or National Science Foundation, and make it accessible to entities proposing legitimate research for the public good…the idea of a citizen-controlled data commons is already getting tested in Europe. 

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