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On 06/07/20 6:37 PM, dc3(a)bob.ma wrote: Bob, I entirely agree. But with your permission may I attempt an analogy with data and its value. Right, connectivity's value is in the whole not any one part of it, and therefore it is should be community owned -- as this group advocates. But is it also not so with data, where too the value is in the whole (the patterns in it) and not individual pieces of it? Why should then data also not be community owned, rather that it be commodified? (Or even be individualised, in terms of data's economic value, as a lot of initiatives currently attempt. Privacy right is different, as a negative right, a right against....) In the same way, communities should be empowered to own their common data infrastructures, intelligence arising from which should  be collectively managed for common good. Would such a comparison to the connectivity debate/commons hold? My apologies, if this community working in the area of connectivity commons considers bringing in data commons here as a digression and 'out of scope'. The thought just occurred to me on reading Bob's - always evocative -- comments. parminder