Personal data may be regarded as an unjustly appropriated raw material, as the product of users’ labour, or as an embodiment of social knowledge.

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BIO
As probably one of the conference’s younger presenters, I have only recently completed my undergraduate studies of philosophy and economics at HU Berlin – of which I have however devoted a major part to thinking about issues like the economics of data monopolies, data as labour, platform capitalism, and what to do about all this. Now that I have found at least some answers to such questions in theory, I am taking up a master’s in Innovation Management at TU Berlin, in order to learn how to set them into practice. At the Humboldt Institute Berlin(www.hiig.de), where I work in a research project on platforms, I met Tuukka Lehtiniemi, who is co-hosting the conference’s OurData track. When he told me about the community and the conference, I knew right away that I needed to go – if not as a presenter, then as a volunteer. Luckily, my rather critical perspective on some assumptions behind the proposal of a user-centric data market got appreciated by the tracks’ hosts, and I hope it will be by its audience as well.