The use of personal data is of enormous global concern. The Digital Person symposium is an annual event organised by the HATLAB and Wolfson College Cambridge that discusses personal data from three perspectives: (1) digital personhood, law, freedom and democracy (2) value, economics and markets and (3) data analytics, data science and technology. Symposium participants are drawn from industry captains, policy makers, government representatives, combined with thought leaders from the sciences, humanities and social sciences with discussions relating to law, computer science, history, sociology, entrepreneurship, business, economics and the global society. The symposium is chaired by 3 eminent professors in the field, Professors John Naughton, Jon Crowcroft and Irene Ng. This unique cross-disciplinary symposium is organised jointly by Wolfson College Cambridge and HATLAB.
Aside from creating a unique environment for a robust discussion that is relevant and important, the symposium will also produce an annual white paper on the state of the digital person in a connected and digital society. The paper would then be presented to the Digital Person Symposium Committee, that acts as an editorial board. Once it is accepted, it will be published in the HATLAB series for the Digital Person (HDP). The HDP will be disseminated to national governments, funding agencies, industry and NGOs. Beyond that, parts of the paper will be published on Medium as small impact-driven articles.
Programme
SEGMENT 1: PERSONAL DATA: DATA ANALYTICS, DATA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
This segment would discuss the following:
- personal data creation
- schemas, analytics, private analytics
- machine learning algorithms, AI
- security, privacy
- technology and IoT
This segment is chaired by Professor Jon Crowcroft, FRS
SEGMENT 2 : PERSONAL DATA: VALUE, ECONOMICS AND MARKETS
This segment would discuss the following:
- personal data as an asset class
- economic value chains of personal data
- economic and business models of personal data
- exchange mechanisms, transactions,
- monetization, dataification, digitization
This segment is chaired by Professor Irene Ng
SEGMENT 3: PERSONAL DATA: DIGITAL PERSONHOOD, FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY
This segment would discuss the following:
- expression of digital identity, curating personal, digital narratives and memories,
- proxies of digital self, digital and physical world connections,
- online identities and understanding how individuals and society interact digitally
- privacy, security, access rights, regulation,
- law, democracy and rights
This segment is chaired by Professor John Naughton, FRSA
