Communities are affected daily in both positive and negative ways by data governance decisions made by local and national governments. These arise through interactions with public services such as health and care; schooling; policing and justice; tax and benefits, as well as in more pervasive ways through government’s collection and dissemination of data, statistics and evidence to inform policymaking.| connectedbydata.org
As part of our project on ‘Giving communities a powerful say in public sector data and AI projects’, we’re interested in supporting practitioners – particularly in the public sector – who are engaging the public on data and AI. To that end, we convene up a community of practice.| connectedbydata.org
We believe effective data governance should be: collective, democratic, participatory, deliberative and powerful. But what should organisations collecting, using or stewarding data, and the communities that data affects, do in order to achieve this? And how can we show that the often dry topic of data governance is something that demands creative and critical engagement? We’ve been running a multi-stage design lab to explore the creation of a serious game (or games) that can help individual...| connectedbydata.org
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