A Common Platform: Reimagining Data and Platforms

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[[Public platforms]].

a small group of large platform companies – sitting at the heart of the transactions and engagements of the digital, and increasingly, the physical economy – have become the robber barons and rentier giants of our age.

The challenge is to liberate the democratic and enlivening potential of the platform from the logics of concentrated corporate ownership and profit maximisation.

Recommendations

• Democratic public ownership of major platforms
• Central bank digital currency and a postal banking system
• A 21st century “New Deal” for workers and unions
• A new multi-stakeholder agency to set the standards and principles for data collection and use
• A network of “data trusts” to provide citizens with access and democratic control over data that can improve their lives
• Public Platform Accelerator (PPA), National Lab for Community Data (NLCD), and Public Digital Cooperatives (PDCs)
• National Investment Bank
• Digital Community Wealth Building