Subject: December Community Call
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Time: 12pm EST
Participants: 31 people (same as in November -- I did not forget to update it)
Location: Zoom meeting (recording available here)
Rewatch the Community Call
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RxC Community Updates
- RxC Brazil Chapter Updates
- Vinicius and the chapter team have graciously advertised the fellowship to their base, with a lot of interest resulting from this effort.
- Daniel is joining the Brazil and Montreal chapter, after finishing his master in political science.
- RxC Frankfurt Chapter Updates:
- Paul Goller and the chapter team are launching a project in Frankfurt and its region, similar to the downtown stimulus initiated by Gitcoin in Boulder, Colorado. The project uses QV to distribute a marching pool to support local businesses (quadratic funding).
- Read the blog post (in German) about the project on Radicalxchange website to learn more.
- If you’d like to register for the Quadratic Funding event with the Frankfurt chapter follow this link.
- RxC Community Updates
- Kaliya is hosting the thoughtful biometrics workshop in February 2021. The workshop is creating a space to dialogue about critical emerging issues surrounding biometric and digital identity technologies. Register here for the event.
- Lucas Chu is calling for people with policy for his project, Harvard Policy for the People, that is looking for mentors for the winners of their Pandemic Policython. Apply here if interested.
- Jennifer Morone is speaking at the Radical Tech conference, on December 9.
- Gitcoin Grants Round 8 starts today, December 2. Support RadicalxChange and all projects from the community!
- Check out Graven Prest’s project, Geo Web, that uses SALSA, and support them on Gitcoin Grants.
- Glen Weyl mentioned to check out Microsoft Trove, a new marketplace for responsible data collection.
RxC Foundation Updates
- Fellowship Deadline Approaching: Applicant fellows can apply here until December 13, end of day. If you have any questions, please contact fellowship@radicalxchange.org
- New Governance Tool for RadicalxChange:
- We are working on a new governance tool to include the RxC community in the decisions made by the foundation for its main goals and priorities via quadratic voting. More to come.
- Chapter Engagement Effort:
- Welcome to Angela, who is joining the team as the new point of contact for the chapters. She can be reached at chapters@radicalxchange.org or angela@radicalxchange.org. Her background in activism and social media will be a great addition to the team.
- We are preparing a new internal chapter newsletter with highlights and upcoming events (submitted by chapters via a form before we send the newsletter).
EU Data Updates
A lot of movement is currently happening in the EU around data!
- Update from Matt Prewitt, president of RadicalxChange Foundation:
- At the November community call, we shared the fact that a draft of the Data Governance Act had been leaked. It was quite similar to the work that RxC is doing with the Data Freedom Act, providing a framework to people to form collective bargaining groups.
- Last week, the final, public version of the Data Governance Act was published. See here.
- Interestingly, the official version focuses more on data intermediaries to help with their legal rights, where the leaked one was more about people delegating their legal rights. It looks like the final version took a step as the intermediaries might not change much. The delegation would have been way more powerful. It’s interesting to see the reluctance to use the idea of collective bargaining. There needs to be a change of belief that these unions will strengthen the individuals, not the contrary. Individuals acting alone without combining their efforts won’t have much power vis a vis any other entities on the other side of the market.
- Additional Comments on the Subject:
- Collective bargaining has this old fashioned association with unions; we need a better model to describe it.
- The data governance act seems to conflict with GDPR, which is now clearly impeding the next steps that should be happening.
- Please note that MyData global has their conference next week. Register here. Discount for nonprofit.
- Upcoming talk on local ecosystem sustainability by the EU on December 8. Register here.
See you next year, on Wednesday, January 6, 2021