How Can We Integrate Ethical Considerations into Innovative Data Projects and Research?
FPF's Kelsey Finch wrote this up today - please read if you are interested in the latest thinking about ethical research.
Today, FPF is pleased to make available the Conference Proceedings from our Beyond IRBs: Designing Ethical Review Processes for Big Data Research workshop. The workshop, co-hosted by FPF and the Washington & Lee School of Law and supported by the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, aimed to identify processes and commonly accepted ethical principles for data research in academia, government and industry.
The workshop brought together over 60 researchers, including lawyers, computer scientists, ethicists and philosophers, as well as policymakers from government, industry and civil society, to discuss a blueprint for infusing ethical considerations into organizational processes in a data rich environment. To learn more about the event, its participants, and its organizers, please visit bigdata.fpf.org.
As part of the Beyond IRBs workshop, FPF and the Washington & Lee School of Law issued a call for papers addressing ethical, legal, and technical guidance for organizations conducting research on personal information. The papers were published in Spring 2016 in the Washington & Lee Online Law Review.
Building on the discussions at Beyond IRBs, FPF also co-hosted a Roundtable on Ethics, Privacy, and Research in June 2016 with the Ohio State University’s Program on Data and Governance. This timely event, which followed the White House’s call to develop strong data ethics frameworks, convened corporate and academic leaders to discuss how to integrate ethical and privacy considerations into innovative data projects and research.
Read the Conference Proceedings.
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8 年During my doctoral research I discovered a huge #artificialintelligence and ethics blind spot in the private sector. Can IRB s solve this emerging trend?
Leadership and Keynote Speaker and member of the Data Science Research Centre at University of Derby
8 年An excellent report, it will be a great resource for my new MSc module "Analytics: Ethics, Trust and Governance" which I will be developing and teaching this semester to our Big Data Analytics MSc students. You will be able to follow the course via my YouTube lectures Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChK4x4moqdF85jcLxgSUHkg
Principal information architect & diagnostician at Ripose Pty Limited
8 年There is a rather simple answer to this. Ethics is a 'benefit'. Lack of ethics is a 'hardship'. By understanding the anatomy of the structure of 'goals' (which is a subset of objectives and a superset of benefits) ethics can be integrated into data via values > knowledge and finally > strategies. Scientifically proven, sustainable and safe.
Founder of Privaceum, the Blockchain Privacy Trust Protocol
8 年Very interesting research, highlighting the fact that big data research differs in many ways (scale, kind) from the traditional problems dealt with by Institutional Review Boards.
Digital Safety, Privacy and Security and Global Best Practices Legal Expert (US and Canadian)
8 年Jules: we have been working with @srisriravishankar and @artofliving in India and the US/Canada. They have entire programs dedicated to ethics in innovation and in business management. Happy to make the introductions. On a separate note, I am so sorry for your recent loss. Your father raised an amazing son and everything you do, every single day, honors him. Parry