Next Stage Digital Economy Centre in the Decentralised Digital Economy (DECaDE)

数据驱动的创新正在将我们数字经济（DE）的每个部门转变为一个去中心化的市场;住宿（AirBnb），交通（Uber），物流（Airbnb），创意产业（YouTube）中的用户生成内容与广播内容。我们正在目睹一个不可阻挡的转变，从以单一制度为中心的经典模式，转向一个充满活力和分散的经济，在这个经济中，任何人都是潜在的生产者和消费者。Gig经济，以数字产品和服务为基础，这些产品和服务是通过较短的、多样化的点对点参与共同创建的。然而，实现这种数字化经济的平台越来越多地建立在集中式架构上。这些都不是由社会控制的，而是由大型组织在远离其影响的社会背景的情况下做出的商业决策。迫切需要打破这种关系，提供适当的治理，使社会能够控制DE，并使人们能够对驱动这些平台的庞大集中数据库行使更大的代理权。我们正处于第二波DE颠覆的风口浪尖上，这是由前沿的数据驱动技术（AI）和安全的分布式数据共享基础设施（如分布式账本技术（DLT））驱动的，在分布式账本技术中，数据不再是孤立的，而是成为一种流动的、去中心化的商品，将权力从科技巨头转移到个人和去中心化的组织。这种未来的去中心化数字经济（DDE）使人们和组织能够通过无摩擦的数字交互共同工作，进行交易，并最终实现信任，而不依赖于集中的第三方，但通常依赖于自主服务。这种机构和权力的转变是一个改变游戏规则的机会，让社会重新控制其数字经济-但我们有一个有限的机会窗口，让它正确。我们已经目睹了金融部门的去中心化，缺乏监管和对加密货币的明确治理已被证明是一把双刃剑，允许在地球仪范围内自由交换价值，但这与欺诈性的公司上市和大型矿池操纵的汇率相结合。这是技术驱动的创新不受社会经济洞察力约束的结果;缺乏知识使政策制定者在面对科技巨头时无能为力。我们现在正处于一个转折点，DDE的所有部门都将面临类似的广泛颠覆，这一转变将从根本上重新定义我们的价值模式及其创造方式，我们的工作方式，以及我们如何使用和从数据中提取价值。DECaDE代表了一个关键而及时的机会，可以塑造这种新兴的去中心化数字经济（DDE），发展的见解，定义一个新的工作和价值创造的DDE世纪模式，并确保一个繁荣，安全和包容的社会，为所有人。DECaDE是一个为期60个月的中心，由21人组成，建立在提议团队在DLT和人类数据交互（HDI）方面超过860万英镑的可行性规模UKRI/EPSRC投资的基础上。DECaDE是萨里大学和爱丁堡大学以及数字弹射器DLT现场实验室之间的三方合作伙伴关系。后者是该联盟的正式成员，我们通过该联盟共同创建了这一研究计划，我们将通过公共和私营部门的各种最终用户与该联盟进一步共同创建未来的DDE，以支持英国的竞争地位。

Data-driven innovation is transforming every sector of our digital economy (DE) into a de-centralised marketplace; accommodation (AirBnb), transportation (Uber), logistics (Deliveroo), user-generated vs. broadcast content in the creative industries (YouTube). We are witnessing an inexorable shift from classical models centred upon monolithic institutions, to a dynamic and decentralised economy in which anyone is a potential producer and consumer. A gig economy, underpinned by digital products and services co-created through shorter-lived, diverse peer-to-peer engagements.Yet, the platforms that enable this DE are increasingly built on centralised architectures. These are not controlled by society, but by large organisations making commercial decisions far from the social contexts they affect. There is an urgent need to disrupt this relationship, to deliver proper governance that empowers society to take control of the DE and enables people to assert greater agency over the vast centralised silos of data that drive these platforms. We stand on the cusp of a second wave of DE disruption, driven by bleeding edge data-driven technologies (AI) and secure, distributed data sharing infrastructures such as Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), in which data is no longer siloed but becomes a fluid, de-centralised commodity shifting power away from tech giants to individuals and de-centralised organisations. This future Decentralised Digital Economy (DDE) enables people and organisations to work together, to trade, and ultimately to trust via frictionless digital interactions free from reliance upon centralised third parties, but often with reliance upon autonomous services. This shift in agency and power is a game changing opportunity for society to take back control over its digital economy - but we have a limited window of opportunity to get it right. We have already witnessed de-centralisation in the financial sector, where the lack of regulation and clear governance of crypto-currencies has proven a double-edged sword, allowing free exchange of value across the globe, but that is coupled with fraudulent company flotations and currency rates rigged by large mining pools. This is a consequence of technology-driven innovation unchecked by socio-economic insight; a lack of knowledge making policy makers impotent in the face of the tech giants. We are now at the tipping point of similar wide-sweeping disruption across all sectors in the DDE, a transformation that will radically redefine our models of value and how it is created, the ways in which we work, and how we use and extract value from our data.DECaDE represents a critical and timely opportunity to shape this emerging de-centralised digital economy (DDE), to develop insights that define a new 21st century model of work and value creation in the DDE, and ensure a prosperous, safe and inclusive society for all. DECaDE is a 60 month centre, comprising 21 people and building upon over 8.6 million pounds of feasibility scale UKRI/EPSRC investments in DLT and Human Data Interaction (HDI) held by the proposing team. DECaDE is a three-way partnership between the Universities of Surrey and Edinburgh, and the Digital Catapult DLT Field Labs. The latter is a full member of the consortium, through which we have co-created this research programme and with whom we will engage in further co-creation of the future DDE through diverse end-users in the public and private sector to support the competitive position of the UK