From open data to sustainable data commons: A multilayered ecosystem
🎥 Session recording: [https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=26938](https://youtu.be/Gk83IgVmBqA?t=26938)
The Open Knowledge Foundation and CIS at CNRS, assisted by the broader open movement legal, research and technical communities, are working towards a globally validated social, technical and legal infrastructure necessary for the sustainable production and inclusive reuse of a data commons. The problem we are aiming to solve is the shortcomings or inadequate design of current tools towards models for sustainable, inclusive, regenerative, and ethical data commons as well as the social attitudes toward sharing. Many are *no longer willing to share unconditionally* after seeing works they shared liberally, or even placed in the public domain, used for purposes opposed to their ethics or that effectively contribute to the erosion of fundamental rights.
Offering options now to share and grow the data commons is imperative to opening the possibilities that high-quality data sets bring to small enterprises, researchers, social innovators, artists, scientists, and society in general. We want to share our approaches with the Wikipedia/Wikimedia research community to develop interoperable legal, governance, and technical tools to complete the infrastructure and legal framework for sustainable data commons. Both partners are established leaders with 20 years of experience in open licensing, advocacy, and interdisciplinary backgrounds. The team members are already working on projects with communities. The result we are aiming for in the coming years is to achieve the social, economic, and legal sustainability of open data commons, rather than extraction and value appropriation from open data.
