Reflection: Rebuilding a Digital City Through Cooperativism

In the past few weeks, I truly enjoyed the Service Design Blueprint project as it has helped guide my thinking and support my ideas on Data Privacy. I also am thinking of pushing further my idea in Data Obfuscation and its practical applications in thinking of a future without Big data or at least a good minimum that can help support critical services to support a Cooperative Economy.

After coming from a weekend learning blockchain tech, I was very much inspired by the idea of how Blockchain Tech can help push a Decentralized Digital Society to contradict the arrival of Smart Cities like the one Google is planning to build in Toronto.

Rebuilding a digital city

My hypothesis to this is a Data-Minimal, Decentralized, Self-Organized Global Society.

1. MAIN OBJECTIVE: HMW replicate the current Cooperativist Model in a Digital Society that supports an open and healthy data-driven society?
2. WHAT INTERVENTIONS or services can incentivize this?
3. a Coop Society supports Open Source options for ANYTHING. Think about
   1. Their User Journey
   2. Explore Ideologies – why supporting a coop economy matters to them
   3. Discover opportunities of merging this with Blockchain Tech.

Understanding their motivations that only accepts what is a healthy data collection processes to support these services. What does a data empowered society look like?

1. What is the Alternative to a big data-dependent society. Can Data Obfuscation be a sustainable model?
2. How does Minimalism look like in the Digital World? Is it Analog? Why would it be valuable for society?
3. How can you empower user, to think long term vs the allure of convenient anything in a digital society

Bonus Inspiration

A Dystopic View on the Future of Surveillance

I have found this this satirical project Quantfied Self Toilet from 2014 The premise of the Quantified Self Toilet  is to “use data to streamline cleaning crew schedules, inform municipalities of the usage of resources, and help buildings and cities plan for healthier and happier citizens.”

70% of people said they would be willing to share their smart toilet data if it led to lower healthcare costs

I think understanding the new normal of a society that embraces the allure of digital products in exchange for services is a pretty high value that cannot be ignored. If I decide to go with speculative New Digital Society, the proposition has to make sense that it would be a promising solution for the critical mass.