Designing Collective Technology Governance
summary
Panel argues current individualist regimes fail and proposes concrete alternatives: data trusts and worker data pooling (workers used SARs to combine ~1.5M Uber trips and show platform cuts from ~20% to 30–50%), citizen assemblies and consent assemblies for principle-setting, and technical aids like immutable audit logs and regulatory sandboxes plus fiduciary stewards under Article 40–44/GDPR and the Platform Work Directive. Main obstacles are legal accountability gaps, corporate capture and representational bias; co-regulatory codes and designated stewards are offered as fixes.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Collective governance intro
- 4:20Forms and opportunities
- 19:40Risks and limitations
- 29:42Sociotechnical infrastructure design
- 37:26Establishing legitimacy
- 51:18Representation challenges
- 1:06:18User research and incentives
- 1:11:57Organizing decisions
- 1:16:26Next steps
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