Thursday, October 02, 2014

Ethics of Data Conference - First Quick Summary

The #Eod14 Conference was a huge success. Thanks to all who participated. We're still decoding, transcribing, and following up so a more formal synthesis is still to come. But in the meantime:

The conference encouraged real work. One and one-half days of small group sessions, filled with the 100 participants, yielded (at least) the following: 


•   The curriculum for a class on building trust in conflict situations being taught at Stanford this quarter
•   A "responsibility for harm" checklist
•   A framing document on different types of consent - (being carried forward by
            Responsible Data Forum and others)
•   A prototype for analyzing the ethics of algorithms
•   A 24 month "urgent issues" idea set
•   A research agenda (the Digital Civil Society Lab will move some of this forward)
•   At least one book proposal
(the Digital Civil Society Lab will try to help move this forward)
•   Specific opportunities for commercial data firms to develop consistent policies for
            sharing data with researchers and nonprofits  
•   Mock-up for nonprofit Terms of Service agreements to align with their missions
(being carried forward by Responsible Data Forum and others)
•   Two(!) draft codes of ethics for data in civil society
•   A set of tools for making ethical decisions across the data lifecycle
•   A data "badger" for ethical management of data in civil society
•   A matrix for locating use cases within and across sectors
•   A process for data scientists and nonprofits to articulate and document
            the ethical choices they made in building apps, making visualizations or analyzing
            data sets
•   100 people from universities, nonprofits, policymaking, and a variety ofdigital data/media companies creating 100! new relationships 

The actual materials will be shared in a variety of ways, including here and on the conference website stanford.io/ethicsofdata

Blog Posts by Participants

Heather Leson


Christopher Wilson
 

Summary document on conference (forthcoming)

If I missed something, let me know. More soon!

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