Comments on: Research: How Commons Grassroots Activists Are Shaping the Future https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/research-how-commons-grassroots-activists-are-shaping-the-future/2013/03/19 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Mike Riddell https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/research-how-commons-grassroots-activists-are-shaping-the-future/2013/03/19/comment-page-1#comment-521824 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:59:38 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=30056#comment-521824 What i think has been over-looked is the one commons that needs to be defended and protected and that’s personal data.

A data-cooperative would effectively protect personal data from those wanting to harvest it for their own benefit, which in effect would be computer driven machine-led businesses like Facebook, Amazon, Tesco and so on, that don’t give us fair return for what is ours.

Vendor relationship management as coined by the author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, Doc Searles, is the world’s leading expert on VRM and how it puts the commoners in control of their own natural resource which is volunteered personal information.

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