Workshop contributions by:

• Hjalte Betak, PhD student, Kooperationen & Roskilde University: Techno-Social Imaginaries: Towards Data Democracy in Platform Knowledge Work.

This session explores complementary strategies of individual and collective approaches to data democracy through the specific case of data cooperativism in knowledge-based platform labor.

Industrial Ph.d. student Hjalte Betak will give a short presentation of the data collective proposal linked to his work: an action-research, multi-stakeholder exploration about potentials of platform cooperative organizing of knowledge workers in Denmark. Furthermore, he will introduce concepts and examples of data democracy related to platform labor by covering various, but complementary strategies of data governance.

Collectively, we will inquire which types of data are of critical importance in relation to freelance platform knowledge work throughout platform processes of matching, negotiating and executing.

Furthermore, our group will discuss potential benefits, barriers, and technical application of complementary collectively and individually oriented data governance strategies in the specific case of knowledge-based platform labor.

Finally, our group will explore how these imagined data futures potentially interoperate with data sovereign intermediary models at European level such as Data Spaces, 2-grade Data Cooperatives, Data Unions or Data Markets.

This workshop is an pre-event of the MyData 2025 conference and it is open to all conference ticket holders without separate registration. Others interested in this workshop may register for a spot here.