Doc Searls in the book “The Intention Economy” . In this economy, the ownership and management of private data lies entirely in the hands of the individual. In this economy, the user has the ability to regulate his own privacy, to determine the extent to which he wants to be left alone and which data may be made available to third parties. However, this does require something of the individual.
Digital literacy is crucial
The individual must teach himself new skills in order to be able to hold his own in the utopia that israel telegram data the Intention Economy proposes. Digital literacy is necessary. Or as the article “ My Generation ” on the website Headmine so beautifully puts it: “A new meta literacy is emerging that isn't based on any single technology but instead on our ability to quickly internalize the grammar and vocabulary of any new technological environment.” A certain degree of knowledge about how the platform works is therefore just as important as the skills to use it. Digital literacy is a crucial condition for more control over your own data. Providing insight seems to be the first phase of this new literacy.
Small Data is the most important because it has the most commercial value. But Small Data is about the individual. It is therefore important that everyone has the knowledge and tools to manage their own data. Providing insight is an important first step. The question is whether it is enough.
Sources
Battelle, John, “On Small, Intimate Data” , 2012,
Battelle, John, “The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture” , Portfolio Hardcover, 2005
Bloem, Jaap, Menno van Doorn, Sander Duivestein Thomas van Manen and Erik van Ommeren.