Rokwire Community Lecture Series
November 3, 12:00pm
Angela Risius
Orthogonal Research and Education Lab, iregret.it
1002 Siebel Center for Design and Virtual
Sponsors
Rokwire Initiative: https://rokwire.org/
Siebel Center for Design: https://designcenter.illinois.edu/
Orthogonal Research and Education Lab: https://orthogonal-research.weebly.com/
Data Trusts: a solution to our mass data collection discontent?
Mass data collection problems result in collective harms and private benefits thanks to the power imbalance between data-collecting companies and their users. Data trusts, a subcategory of data commons, provide independent, fiduciary stewardship of data to solve this problem. In this talk, we will be going over the problems of mass data collection, key elements of data trusts, their connection to data privacy, and some current real-life implementations of this innovation.
In terms of potential future directions, data trusts have far-reaching implications on collective decision-making and acting on collectively produced data. By the end of the lecture, participants will have a clearer idea of what problems a data trust can solve and even ways they could design their own data trust from the key elements.
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