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P20


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Emerging leadership for data governance and data for development 
Convenors:
Eric Kasper (Institute of Development Studies)
Stella Odiase (IDS)
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Formats:
Papers Mixed
Stream:
Data digitalisation
Sessions:
Friday 19 June, -, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

Data is increasingly important in the effort to address global challenges. But data usage and governance is itself an emerging global challenge. This panel seeks to explore emerging leadership in areas central to data governance and data for development.

Long Abstract:

Data is an increasingly important resource for addressing global challenges. However, realizing the transformative potential of data in this way will be anything but straightforward. Citizens (from individuals to informal settlements to transnational online collectives), businesses (from small firms to multi-national corporations), and governments (from municipalities to nations to international institutions) are all developing promising applications for using data for good. However, data in these emerging spaces is currently largely ungoverned. What happens next will be determined by emerging leaders across each of these types of actors and spaces.

In development studies, we also need to lead the way in coming up with effective concepts and evidence to make sense of what's happening in these emerging data governance landscapes. For example, what are the development implications of a company like Cambridge Analytica being able to manipulate election results in countries from the US and UK to Nigeria? Will the concept of data sovereignty help national governments capture the value of data produced within their boundaries, or will it merely provide a cover for increasingly pervasive surveillance? Will data regulations come to be decided based on privacy concerns or as an issue of international trade?

What should we make of the interests of actors and emerging leadership within these new landscapes of data governance? Specifically, how should we understand the blurring of boundaries between public and private, open and closed, citizen and consumer, obligation to provide public services and need to protect against harmful public actions?

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Friday 19 June, 2020, -