this is the presentation for the Ubiquitous Commons held at the NetFutures 2015 event in Brussels, during the CAPS concertation meeting. more information here: http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org/ubiquitous-commons-at-netfutures-2015/ here: http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org/ and here: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/collective-awareness-platforms-sustainability-and-social-innovation-caps-consultation-meeting

1. UBIQUITOUS COMMONS
http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org

2. THE SCENARIO
• we generate massive amounts of
information, through network
connected devices

3. PROBLEM
• we have no way to understand what
information we generate
• we have no way to understand how this
information is used (directly and indirectly)
• we have no possibility to express how we
want our information to be used
• we have no constructive way to build
collaborative initiatives using all of this
information

4. HYPOTHESIS
• create a peer-to-peer protocol
• (and, hence, ecosystem)
• which hosts our expression about
intended usage of information, and
• which hosts the access mechanism to
our data/information

5. A LEGAL / TECHNOLOGICALTOOLKIT

6. CURRENT SCENARIO

8. NEW SCENARIO

10. OUTCOMES

11. DATA-SUBJECTS CHOOSETHEIR
LICENSES FORTHE INFORMATIONTHEY
PUBLISH/GENERATE

12. LICENSE IS POLYMORPHIC

13. LICENSE DISTRIBUTED ONTOTHE
BLOCKCHAIN

14. THE ENTIRE BLOCKCHAINVERIFIES
ACCESS

15. TRANSACTIONS ARE LIKE MICRO-
CONTRACTS: FULLYTRACEABLE AND
TRANSPARENT

16. COMMUNITIES/ORGS/PEOPLE CAN
CREATE LICENSES FOR SPECIFIC
PURPOSES

17. OPENS UP MULTIPLETYPES OF
ECONOMIES

18. NEXT STEPS

19. CREATE ADOPTION CASES

20. MOVETO FIRMWARE OF
IOT AND NETWORK CONNECTED
DEVICES

21. UBIQUITOUS COMMONS
http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org