Data Custodians
Internet Archive, Center for Human Technology, Electronic Frontiers Foundation
Custodians maintain, repair, and nurture what we have, guard the sacred, and nurture the needs of the whole.
Example activities: Teaching, healing, repairing, tending to needs, policing and security, community service, hosting events
Data Parsers
Earthcodes Data Commons
Parsers curate, review what exists, and decide if and how it meets needs – what to keep, what to dispose of, what to change or bring back to ‘life.’ Parsers tackle one of the core hard problems of AI – coding, sorting, and tagging the data so that it can be used.
Example activities: Auditing, quality assurance, editing and publishing, curating, criticism, reviews, meta-analysis
Data Philosophers
Buckminster Fuller Institute, International Bateson Institute, Studio D
Philosophers scout, discover, navigate, and map the realms of possibility and risk in multiple dimensions. They learn from the past to make discoveries that create portals to new futures.
Example activities: Searching, conversing, questioning, unpacking assumptions, diving down rabbit holes, hypothesising, creating, dreaming, noting/sketching