#043 Shiv Malik - Data Unions

“How do you change the system to take longer term decisions without forcing people and using a government to do that, and the answer is you set up cooperatives and mutuals.” Shiv Malik In this conversation I connected with Shiv Malik who is a technologist, broadcaster, author, former Guardian investigative journalist and co-founder of the Intergenerational Foundation think tank. He is also author of several books - The Messenger and Jilted Generation. He joined the Web3 space in 2017 with Golem and then Streamr. In 2021 he co-founded Pool and currently leads the organization on its mission to bring Data Unions to the world and ensure people have control of their data and a genuine stake in the digital economy. In this conversation we talked about web3 and data unions and why are they are important, building upon his background as an investigative journalist. "We all need to have that stake in the future and be able to leverage that." https://www.pooldata.io/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv_Malik https://www.faber.co.uk/author/shiv-malik/ https://www.theguardian.com/profile/shiv-malik https://www.weareliminal.co/