Two workshops led by

• Eduardo Mercovich, MyData Global, board of directors (9:30-11:00)

We do know that real personal data empowerment is crucial for our common future. However, most of the people who understand this doesn't have the knowledge or means to implement working solutions. And even if we could, maybe that is not ideal (do we need an email server per person? No...). So if we humans -as any complex systems- thrive in relationships and sharing information is vital for those relationships, what if the implementation for personal data empowerment comes from the community level? What if any community could provide infrastructure for it's members in a similar way to what MyData calls "operators"? And then, just as in the rest of our life, based on real interactions and history each community may earn (or not) the trust of others? In this hands on workshop we will see some real world working examples of this pattern in other domains and then collectively see what can we learn from them, envision how could they be, explore their challenges (such as governance, protocols and implementations, interoperability, data migration, sharing, control, community business models, etc.) and strengths to finally do a rough design of how could they scale from every community up to every person connected to the net. The design will be informed by an biological point of view from the facilitation. In this workshop We may find people aligned with this vision, start the path to make it real and -if we want to- this can be the start of a long and fruitful collaboration. :)

• Nanna Würtz Kristiansen, Kritik Digital & Roskilde University (11:30-13:00)

How do we resist digital surveillance together? Would you like to share your own and/or learn from others' experiences with data activism? Then join this workshop for collective learning. I will share what we have learned in Kritik Digital (a Danish tech-critical youth-led volunteer organisation) during the last four years of working with awareness-raising and resistance in Denmark, a hyper-digitalised and tech-solutionist Nordic welfare state. In the workshop we will connect individual and collective, local and global, strategies of refusal and alternatives to surveillance capitalism/data colonialism/techno feudalism. We will strengthen the international community for data justice. Everyone is welcome!

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.