[MyData & Open Data] Fwd: [liberationtech] Data ethics workshop: call for participation

Fri May 23 08:34:43 UTC 2014

Anyone in New York in August?
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From: "Robert Munro" <rmunro at stanford.edu>
Date: 23 May 2014 00:53
Subject: [liberationtech] Data ethics workshop: call for participation
To: "liberationtech" <liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu>
Cc:

Hi all

I am writing on behalf of the KDD Data Ethics Workshop (
http://dataethics.github.io), which I am helping organize on August 24 in
New York.

KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining) is one of the top data science
conferences and this year's theme is "Data Mining for Social Good", so the
conference itself should be interesting to many liberation tech folk. The
conference is generally well-attended by data scientists and engineers from
the tech companies that are shaping our data policies, so there is a
potential for influence that is more direct than NGO and government-focused
events.

For the data ethics workshop, we are interested in both positive and
negative potential outcomes. Formats include position papers, case studies
and extended abstracts. Full call for participation below.

I hope many of you are able to take part!

best

Rob

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

*** DATA ETHICS: KDD WORKSHOP ***
Sunday, August 24, 2014 in NYC
http://dataethics.github.io
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 8, 2014

Addressing a broad spectrum of ethical issues in data collection, storage,
analysis, and sharing, the Data Ethics workshop will be a forum to explore
data science's potential ethical implications -- both positive and negative
-- for data analytics practitioners and researchers in academia and
industry. Perspectives from the humanities and social sciences are welcome.

The workshop is held in conjunction with 20th ACM SIGKDD International
Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD'14) in New York City.

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TOPICS
* Balancing transparency/openness vs. privacy/security
* Intentional and unintentional impact
* Balancing reward vs. risk of data usage
* Data use and re-use
* Theory vs. practice in data ethics
* Case studies of ethical issues that have arisen in data science
* "Hippocratic Oath for Data Scientists"
* Data ethics and the law
* Commercial / economic dimensions of data ethics
* Safe and effective structures for "data philanthropy"
* Data ownership vs. data as a public good
* What data can/should be collected in public
* Surveillance technologies: pros and cons
* Data anonymization/scrubbing, and data de-anonymization
* Cross-cultural differences in data ethics
* Human data processing and the ethics of microtasking/crowdsourcing
* Development of ethical norms and/or suggested checklists for data
practitioners

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

In addition to traditional papers, submissions of  case studies, position
papers, posters, and extended abstract are also encouraged.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 8, 2014

WORKSHOP: Sunday, August 24, 2014 in NYC

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For more information or to submit your work, please visit:
http://dataethics.github.io

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