Webinar - Economic rights in a data-based society

19 May 2020 Berlim, Alemanha 19 May - 19 May

Webinar - Economic rights in a data-based society

  • 19 May - 19 May
  • Berlim, Alemanha

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e. V.

Video

Speakers: Parminder Jeet Singh, IT for Change, India - Rosa Pavanelli, General Secretary of Public Services International (PSI) - Christina Colclough, independent expert on the future of work and the politics of technology - Moderator: Daniel Bertossa, PSI

Webinar - Economic rights in a data-based society

Tuesday, 19 May 2020
3pm-4.15pm CET

Our collective future depends on whether we can ensure broad sharing of digital data with due individual and group protection. For the latter, we need to establish collective primary economic rights to data. Access to community data currently held by private actors is the fundamental pre-requisite for the very act of public policy-making and ensuring a fair economy. For the public sector, this entails an imperative to change: it must henceforth be able to collect and curate data, convert it into digital intelligence and provide intelligent public services. While skills development and upgrading are needed, the more decisive challenge is one of visioning, exercising political will and managing a transition to use data for the common good.

Parminder Jeet Singh, Executive Director of IT for Change, will present the key findings of his recent study "Economic rights in a data-based society". Afterwards there will be room for debate to discuss the idea of community data, or community ownership of data and analyse implications for public sector politics and workers‘ rights.

Speakers:

  • Input: Collective Ownership of Data – An Imperative for a fair post Covid-19 society by Parminder Jeet Singh, IT for Change, India

  • Comment: Rosa Pavanelli, General Secretary of Public Services International (PSI)

  • Comment: Christina Colclough, independent expert on the future of work and the politics of technology

  • Q&A with participants

  • Moderator: Daniel Bertossa, PSI