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From: NYC Digital Humanities <wordpress@nycdh.org>
Date: Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 12:05 PM
Subject: Alex Gil started the topic Is Open Access to Data Always a Good
Thing? in the forum NYCDH Announcements [NYC Digital Humanities]
Alex Gil started the topic Is Open Access to Data Always a Good Thing? in
the forum NYCDH Announcements
“Hi all, we have a really exciting event at Columbia this week, which may
be of interest to our community. Description below. Here’s a link to the
Eventbrite for RSVPs.
A Panel Discussion on Secrecy, Privacy and the Public Good
Government agencies and private corporations possess vast troves of data
that can be used to build new businesses, improve governance, and carry out
cutting-edge research. But who gets access to this data, and on what terms?
What if it threatens intellectual property, individual privacy, or national
security? And can research universities remain relevant if, more and more,
the best data is proprietary or classified? While open access is usually
celebrated as an unmitigated good, it raises issues that challenge us to
rethink the politics and ethics of secrecy and citizenship in the digital
age.
Featuring:
Merit Janow, Dean of SIPA, Columbia University
Alondra Nelson, Dean of Social Science, Columbia University
Jesse Berlin, Vice President of Epidemiology, Johnson & Johnson
Matthew Connelly, Principal Investigator of the Declassification Engine
Duncan Watts, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research
Free and Open to the Public
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