Listening to #CogX2020 panel on barriers to data trusts / institutions / stewardship
Usual challenge of language is being identified but not really pointing at the different goals of various actors, how context affects those goals, & the power dynamics in play.
Usual challenge of language is being identified but not really pointing at the different goals of various actors, how context affects those goals, & the power dynamics in play.
As data is just an (imperfect) representation of our world, then it has all of the rich variety of that world but it also interacts with it and all of the other dynamics going in that world.
It obviously isn't easy, just look at everything that's happened this year :)
It obviously isn't easy, just look at everything that's happened this year :)
No one org - gov, academic, NGO, biz &c - exists that could or should lead on this kind of work.
Instead lots of messy debate, actual experiments, time & different visions to gradually work out how to make data work 'better'* for people
*for various definitions of 'better'
Instead lots of messy debate, actual experiments, time & different visions to gradually work out how to make data work 'better'* for people
*for various definitions of 'better'
(In answer to a DM. Nope. I heard no new insights that came specifically from experiments, whether designed experiments or just from observing all of the data stuff that’s already happening)
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