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- Ability to think about personal data and digital identity within the context of wider socio-economic contexts and trends.
- Understanding of the fundamentals of technology architecture related to different forms of digital identity.
- Ability to critically reflect on the potential benefits and risks associated with digitalisation and the ability to consider and communicate these risks.
- Ability to apply "commons-based" concepts within design thinking.

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Teaching in the form of lecture input and practical workshops. The sessions will be based on practical examples, close interplay between theory and practice and online input from experts on specific sub-topics.

Credit awarded if the following conditions are met: attendance at lectures combined with practical workshops; final group project completed largely in class workshops and undemanding homework.

1. Introduction to the course. "Epistemic grounding" - exploring implicit models, concepts and metaphors related to key themes (data, identity, trust). Promise Theory analytical framework (Burgess). "Data as ____?" - Advantages and disadvantages of different conceptions of the phenomenon of data: data as: property (property) / labour (labour) / reputation (reputation) / public goods (public goods) / commons.
2. Socio-economic background. The emergence of platform economies and various forms of "sharing economies" (new data economy, reputation economy, trust economy, etc.). Related issues and externalities. Surveillance capitalism. Tomorrow 3.0 (Munger).
3. Introduction to the commons. Origins - research by Elinor Ostrom. P2P commons transition (Bauwens). Platform cooperativism (Schneider, Scholz). Sovereign Accountable Commons (Brock).
4. Sharing Cities initiative and commons approaches. Responses from cities. Sharing Cities Declaration. Data access issues. Ethical issues. Data commons. DECODE initiative.
5. Digital identity. "The Internet lacks an identity layer!" A brief excursus into the evolution of identification/authentication standards on the Internet. The advent of Self-Sovereign identity - new W3C standards (Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers). What does this mean for personal data and our digital footprint? "Data as property" - a useful perspective or a step towards dystopia? How does blockchain relate to decentralized digital identity?
6. Decentralization, blockchain and Web 3.0. Historical excursus: Bitcoin as the first implementation of blockchain technology, ideology of emergence. Gartner adoption curve. Technological foundations. The benefits of blockchain - what is the hype and in what contexts it may make sense to address it. Ehtereum and the Smart Contract concept. Promises, bubbles and false hopes. Dystopian question marks. Data and AI, "compute to data" models.
7. Cyber-physical commons and P2P alternatives. "Tokenomics" research at the University of Vienna. Commons Stack. "Tokenise everything!" - a nightmare or a path to self-sufficiency? Holochain. Mutual-credit systems. How does it relate to data and identity?
8. What to do practically? Analysis of concrete examples. Design perspective: what specifically can we start doing?
9. Final meeting, evaluation, presentation of ideas and designs and next steps.

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- To present current socio-economic trends related to the emergence of the platform economy.

- To map the key links to the issue of "personal data" and digital identity.

- Outline the potential role of "commons-based" approaches in efforts to move towards healthier solutions.

- Demonstrate their relevance to design thinking.

- To stimulate the ability to think in these categories and the interest in actively experimenting with their application.

As long as hybrid/presence learning is possible, participation is mandatory. One absence is allowed (there are 7 meetings in total). In case of higher absences, learners are given additional tasks consisting of reading and processing thematic texts.

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BAUWENS, Michel, Vasilis KOSTAKIS a Alex PAZAITIS. Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto [online]. London: University of Westminster Press, 2019 [cit. 2021-9-14]. ISBN 9781911534778. Dostupné z: doi:10.16997/book33
DELLENBAUGH-LOSSE, Mary, Nils-Eyk ZIMMERMANN a Nicole DE VRIES. The Urban Common Cookbook: Strategies and Insights for Creating and Maintaining Urban Commons [online]. 1. Shareable, 2020 [cit. 2021-9-14]. ISBN 978-3-00-065193-9. Dostupné z: http://urbancommonscookbook.com/info-UrbanCommonsCookbookEN.pdf
OSTROM, Elinor. Governing the commons: the evolution of institutions for collective action. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-521-40599-7.

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