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. 2024 Oct 25:4:45.
doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.17020.2. eCollection 2024.

Co-creation of the Digital Democracy and Data Commons Manifesto: alternative sociotechnical visions of data

Enric Senabre Hidalgo  1 , Antonio Calleja  1 , Ricard Espelt  1 , Sara Suárez Gonzalo  1 , Mayo Fuster Morell  1 , Andreu Belsunces  1
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Co-creation of the Digital Democracy and Data Commons Manifesto: alternative sociotechnical visions of data

Enric Senabre Hidalgo et al. Open Res Eur. .

Abstract

Amid public concern surrounding the proprietary and exploitative use of personal data by corporations and public institutions, and its consequences from a sociotechnical perspective, narratives around digital commons have recently emerged, framing potential alternatives. This paper presents the co-creation of the Digital Democracy and Data Commons Manifesto through a collaborative writing sprint, drawing on principles of openness, diversity, and inclusivity. The manifesto articulates a technopolitical vision for data governance that prioritizes community control over data. We analyze the manifesto's evolution throughout the process, demonstrating its capacity to address contemporary concerns such as data extractivism and algorithmic governance. Our approach is based on participatory design methods, more concretely on a collaborative writing sprint, to co-create a manifesto on alternatives to current datafication, digital inequalities, and lack of citizen control over personal data. On the one hand, we describe the process of implementing a sprint approach for collaboratively writing a topic-specific manifesto, in the context of the broader EU project DECODE (Decentralised Citizen Owned Data Ecosystems). On the other hand, we present and analyse the main results from the content structure of the manifesto over its initial and final versions, which moved progressively as a cohesive text away from a scholarly and policy-oriented tone.

Keywords: Co-creation; Data Commons; Digital Democracy; Participatory Design; Sociotechnical Systems..

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Conflict of interest statement

No competing interests were disclosed.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Overall process of the manifesto sprint in relation to DDDC Pilot and the DECODE project.
Own elaboration.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Results of the interaction using Instant Archetypes.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.. Sample of four cards with previous proposals for the manifesto (source: Decidim platform).
Figure 4.
Figure 4.. Comparison of recurrent terms in two versions of the manifesto.
Figure 5.
Figure 5.. Evolution of the most frequent terms in both versions of the manifesto.
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