Dear Data Meeters, I'd like to take this opportunity to invite you to a workshop session titled Form & Function: Data Protocols for Civic Innovation, hosted by Jessica Seddon and Anant Maringanti as part of the sixth edition of the Design Public Conclave. This will be held between 2.30 pm - 4.30 pm on Tuesday the 3rd of November.
Please find details of the session below. Please register here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/198cZ8Yqp1SsS7495VwkOGIcTEI6zmlH-CRDVGxlpAzg/viewform?edit_requested=true> if you would like to participate in the days events and the workshop session. Hope to see you there, Namrata *Form & Function: Data Protocols for Civic Innovation. * Group size: ~15 *Issues to Discuss:* Form and format of data and their implications for data use and abuse. The session will focus on two possibilities in particular – the tensions between transparency and privacy; and the opportunity costs that restrictive data formats create for innovation. *Structure: *We will use two cases of “civic data” initiatives on crime data and transport to ground the discussion. Anchors Anant Mariganti and Jessica Seddon present two cases and outline some of the key issues involved in evaluating the data format (20 minutes). Participants in 2 breakout sessions thrash out the issues (45 minutes), and then reconvene to share the discussions (30 minutes). We will conclude the session with a facilitated discussion meant to collate insights and hammer out a statement that can be shared more widely (20 minutes). This initial formulation would ideally be the kernel of a kind of code of ethics, a checklist for considering the costs and benefits of various data release formats, and suggestions for incorporation in upcoming public and private initiatives meant to increase transparency of civic data. *Workshop Structure* Case 1: Crime data Case 2: Transport data Summary of Broader Issues – What kinds of issues do these cases raise? - Legal: ownership, usage rights – copy, remix, re-analyze - Metadata: what makes things useful? Too useful? - Technology: complements & substitutes for law - Ethics: Who has what responsibility for release/reuse/re-combination? Ways of thinking about Risks/Returns on Information - Decision Support - Incentives - New Institutional Opportunities -- www.namratamehta.com www.everydayplaceseverydaytraces.com -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
