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Aug 21, 2020

Digital crossroads: How to pilot data trusts for good

By Borja Prado

While much of public discussion around data has focused solely on the debate of data privacy protection versus deregulation and economic productivity, data trusts represent legal, technology-enabled constructs that allow for more equitable ways of sharing the profits among different stakeholders. In this structure, a relationship of fiduciary responsibility would exist not only with the shareholders, but also towards the data owners and producers, and where the data economy would happen "with people" instead of "to people".

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Aug 21, 2020

Why a well-intended ‘Digital Platform Agency’ may not fit our global, networked world

By Atlantic Council

Ultimately, when considering the reality that "Statutes and Regulatory Models Adopted for the Industrial Era are Insufficient for the Realities of the Internet Era", any solutions must consider where the metaphoric puck is going vs. where the puck is.

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May 27, 2020

Event recap | Data salon episode 1: Notice, consent, and disclosure in times of crisis

By Stewart Scott

On Wednesday, May 27, 2020, the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center and Accenture hosted Dr. Jennifer King, Director of Consumer Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and Ms. Jana Gooth, legal policy advisor to MEP Alexandra Geese, for the inaugural episode of the jointly presented Data Salon Series. The event was co-hosted by Mr. Steven Tiell, Senior Principle, Responsible Innovation at Accenture and Dr. David Bray, Inaugural Director, GeoTech Center at the Atlantic Council.

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Dame Wendy Hall is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Center. She is regius professor of computer science, pro vice-chancellor for international engagement, and the executive director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. Hall was co-chair of the UK government’s AI Review, which was published in October 2017, and has recently been announced by the UK government as the first skills champion for AI in the UK.

With Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, she co-founded the Web Science Research Initiative in 2006 and is the managing director of the Web Science Trust, which has a global mission to support the development of research, education, and thought leadership in Web Science. She became a commander of the order of the British Empire in 2009 and is a fellow of the Royal Society.

Previously, Hall was president of the ACM, senior vice president of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a member of the UK Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology. She was a founding member of the European Research Council, chair of the European Commission’s ISTAG from 2010-2012, and a member of the Global Commission on Internet Governance. Until June 2018, Hall was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on the Digital Economy.