A Call for Action
TOWARD BUILDING THE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE AND ECOSYSTEM WE NEED TO TACKLE PANDEMICS AND OTHER DYNAMIC SOCIETAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS
See also https://data4covid19.org/ for updates on how we are implementing the recommendations below.
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The undersigned concerned individuals, all of whom have worked responsibly to harness the potential of data to address critical societal and environmental challenges, call upon major stakeholders to take seven key actions to unleash the potential of #datacollaboration in addressing the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to improve preparedness for the future.
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WHY WE NEED ACTION
The spread of COVID-19 is a human tragedy and a worldwide crisis. The social and economic costs are huge, and they are contributing to a global slowdown. Despite the amount of data collected daily, we have not been able to leverage them to accelerate our understanding and action to counter COVID-19. As a result we have entered a global state of profound uncertainty and anxiety.
The current pandemic has not only shown vulnerabilities in our public health systems but has also made visible our failure to re-use data between the public and private sectors — what we call data collaboratives — to inform decision makers how to fight dynamic threats like the novel Coronavirus.
We have known for years that the re-use of aggregated and anonymized data — including from telecommunications, social media, and satellite feeds — can improve traditional models for tracking disease propagation. Telecommunications data has, for instance, been re-used to support the response to Ebola in Africa (Orange) and swine flu in Mexico (Telefónica). Social media data has been re-used to understand public perceptions around Zika in Brazil (Facebook). Satellite data has been used to track seasonal measles in Niger using nighttime lights. Geospatial data has similarly supported malaria surveillance and eradication efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa. In general, many infectious diseases have been monitored using mobile phones and mobility.
The potential and realized contributions of these and other data collaboratives reveal that the supply of and demand for data and data expertise are widely dispersed. They are spread across government, the private sector, and civil society and often poorly matched.
Much data needed by researchers is never made accessible to those who could productively put it to use while much data that is released is never used in a systematic and sustainable way during and post crisis.
This failure results in tremendous inefficiencies and costly delays in how we respond. It means lost opportunities to save lives and a persistent lack of preparation for future threats.
There is a large return to the cross-organizational alignment of goals and leveraging of data resources that results from collaboration and partnerships. Responsible data collaboration also increases trust and ethics in the way data is handled and, importantly, the perceived legitimacy of such efforts.
Today, many public and private organizations are donating and re-using data and expertise and are working tirelessly to generate insight(s) that can inform decision making (See Google Doc of projects) and “flattening the curve.”
However most of these efforts are ad hoc, poorly funded, and often disconnected from key decision makers who can act upon insights generated. There exists widespread confusion and often misinterpretation of legal provisions, which in turn leads to new hindrances to responsible data collaboration. There is also no strategy on how to connect and transform the energy, expertise and resources provided today into a new data driven approach to address future public threats, including fast-developing public health and climate crises.
The European Commission’s Expert Group on Business to Government Data Sharing recently stated that “much of the potential for data and its insights to be used for the benefit of society remains untapped…Due to organisational, technical and legal obstacles (as well as an overall lack of a data-sharing culture) business-to-government (B2G) data-sharing partnerships are still largely isolated, short-term collaborations.”
CALL FOR ACTION — 7 ACTIONS TO MAKE DATA COLLABORATION SYSTEMATIC, SUSTAINABLE AND RESPONSIBLE (AND BUILD THE DATA INFRASTRUCTURE WE NEED)
The below recommendations are based upon the European Expert Group on Business to Government Data Sharing’s Final Report and efforts undertaken by The GovLab, The World Economic Forum, GSMA’s AI for Impact Taskforce, SDSN TReNDS, Open Data Institute, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, UN Global Pulse, among others.
A set of concrete pathways to implement the below immediately, in tandem with governments and other actors, is being developed and crowdsourced with the help of the signatories. When signing up please indicate whether you want to be part of the next steps.
- DEVELOPING A GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK: Public actors, private actors, and civil society, worldwide should work together to develop and/or clarify a governance framework for the trusted reuse of privately-held data toward the public interest. This framework should include governance principles, open data policies, trusted data re-use agreements, transparency requirements and safeguards, and accountability mechanisms, including ethical councils, that clearly define duties of care for data accessed in emergency contexts and do not obligate new and additional data collection by the private sector.
- BUILDING CAPACITY: Governments should increase the readiness and the operational capacity and maturity of the public and private sectors to re-use and act on data, for example by investing in the training, education, and reskilling of policymakers and civil servants so as to better build and deploy data collaboratives. Building capacity also includes increasing the ability to ask and formulate questions that matter and that could be answered by data. Such a list of priority questions and metrics could facilitate more rapid response by critical data holders.
- ESTABLISHING DATA STEWARDS: Private, public, and civil society entities should create and promote the position of a Chief Data Stewards within organizations. Data stewards would be mandated to coordinate and collaborate with counterparts toward unlocking the public interest value of data, to protect potentially sensitive information, and to act on insights derived through data analysis.
- BUILDING A NETWORK: Parties across sectors should establish a network of such data stewards. This community of practice can help to coordinate and streamline efforts and provide greater transparency on the current state of play with regard to data stewardship and collaboration. Its mission, objectives, participants, and criteria for participation should all be made open to the public, and its activities should be undertaken in an inclusive manner.
- ENGAGING PEOPLE: People should be encouraged to co-create data collaboratives for well-defined and documented public interest purposes of their choice. To enable this, governments and corporations should promote user-friendly crowdsourcing and data donation mechanisms. These mechanisms should clearly articulate to the public how their data will be responsibly used, re-used, and protected. In general, efforts should be made to make more transparent to people what the benefits of data collaboration could be for them personally and for society at large.
- UNLOCKING FUNDS: Funding from a variety of sources, including crowdfunding, should be unlocked and sustained without the use of heavy-handed procurement. Funders should support data systems and infrastructure with an eye toward future crises as well as current challenges. A system of pre-qualified recipients should be developed that can facilitate rapid access to resources during the first stages of a crisis. Other incentives for data collaboration should also be established, including the public recognition of private companies and civil organizations that engage in data collaboratives. Existing funding schemes should take societal priorities into account when making decisions on how to allocate funds or create incentives.
- PROMOTING TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION: With the support of governments and foundations, data scientists and researchers should co-design and co-develop technologies needed to implement data collaboration at scale and in a responsible and sustainable way. This collaborative research should be as transparent and interdisciplinary as possible, and could focus initially on core needs such as privacy-preserving technologies, security technologies, and access-control technologies.
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For more information and suggestions contact Stefaan G. Verhulst at The GovLab (stefaan @ thegovlab.org).
SIGNATORIES (Still open and updated regularly)
Stefaan G. Verhulst, Co-Founder, The GovLab, New York University and Editor in Chief, Data & Policy, Cambridge University Press, United States
Ciro Cattuto, Associate Professor at the University of Torino and Principal Scientist at the ISI Foundation, Italy
Richard Benjamins, Chief AI & Data Strategist, Telefonica, Cofounder OdiseIA, Spain
Massimo Lapucci, Secretary General Fondazione CRT, Chair European Foundation Centre Brussels, Italy and Belgium
Catherine Stihler, CEO, Open Knowledge Foundation, United Kingdom
Nuria Oliver, Chief Data Scientist, Data-Pop Alliance, Cofounder ELLIS and OdiseIA, Spain
Alex Pentland, Professor MIT, United States
William Hoffman, World Economic Forum, United States
Geoff Mulgan, UCL, United Kingdom
Leo Ferres, Associate Professor, Institute of Data Science, Faculty of Engineering, Universidad del Desarrollo, and Telefónica Research and Development, Santiago, Chile
John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer, Sage Bionetworks
Brennan Lake, Senior Director of Research Partnerships, Cuebiq, Inc, United States
Irene Braam, Executive Director, Bertelsmann Foundation, United States
Alberto Alemanno, Professor of Law, HEC Paris, Founder of The Good Lobby and rapporteur of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Business to Government Data Sharing, France
Christoph Lütge, Professor and Director, Institute for Ethics in AI, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Virginia Dignum, Professor, Umeå University, Sweden
Ioana Stoenescu, Government Affairs Manager, Roche, Romania
Idoia Salazar, President OdiseIA (Observatory for the Social and Ethical Impact of Artificial intelligence), Spain
Juan Murillo, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Madrid, Spain
Pedro A. de Alarcon, Head of IoT & Data for Social Good, Telefonica, Spain
Claudia Juech, CEO and President of the Cloudera Foundation, United States
Urs Gasser, Berman Klein Center, United States
Enrique Frias-Martinez, Scientific Researcher, Telefonica Research, Madrid, Spain
Renaud Lambiotte, Associate Professor, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Albert Ali Salah, Professor, Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Dimitris Zissis, Associate Professor at University of the Aegean and Head of R&D, MarineTraffic, Greece
Harald Sterly, Senior Researcher, University of Vienna, Austria
Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
Luigi Di Caro, University of Turin, Italy
Matthew Gee, CEO, Brighthive, United States
Jeni Tennison, CEO, Open Data Institute, United Kingdom
Jessica Espey, Director, UN SDSN TReNDS (Thematic Research Network on Data and Statistics), United States
Jean Claude Burgelman, Former Head Open Science, European Commission, Faculty of Social Science, Free University Brussels and Solvay Business School, Belgium
Ulrich Mans, Founder, HumanityX.nl, The Netherlands
Miguel Luengo-Oroz, Chief Data Scientist, United Nations Global Pulse
Luca Pappalardo, Researcher, Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Pisa, Italy
Anita McGahan, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
Daniela Paolotti, Scientific Coordinator of Influenzanet, ISI Foundation, Italy
Marzia Rango, Research and Data Officer, International Organization for Migration, Germany
Davide Colla, PhD Student, University of Turin, Italy
Duccio Medini, Head Data Science and Digital Innovation, GSK Vaccines R&D, Italy
Patrick Vinck, Director of Research, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, United States
Nicolas de Cordes, VP Marketing Anticipation, Orange Group, France
Claire Melamed, CEO, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, United Kingdom
David Osimo, Director of Research at the Lisbon Council, Spain
Paul Hofheinz, President and Co-founder of the Lisbon Council, Belgium
Daniele Manini, University of Turin, Italy
Matthew Salganik, Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, United States
Julia Stoyanovich, Assistant Professor, New York University, United States
Phuong Pham, Harvard Medical School/Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, United States
Marci Harris, POPVOX, United States
Francesco Mureddu, Lisbon Council for Economic Competitiveness and Social Renewal, Belgium
Kareem Elbayar, Partnerships Manager, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs — Centre for Humanitarian Data, United States
Alyson Marks, Communications Manager, SDSN TReNDS, United States
Greg Bloom, Open Referral, United States
Simone Ravaioli, Director Strategic Partnerships, Digitary, Italy
Paolo De Rosa, CTO, Ministry of Innovation Technology and Digital Transformation, Italy
Pierluigi Contucci, Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
Katie Clancy, IDRC, Canada
Paolo Papotti, EURECOM, Italy
Antonio Lieto, University of Turin and ICAR-CNR, Italy
Rod Glover, Professor of Policy and Impact, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Australia
Panthea Lee, Executive Director, Reboot, United States
Olivia Dorey, Unaffiliated
Catherine Nikolovski, Executive Director, Civic Software Foundation, United States
Varun Aggarwal, Founder, India Migration Now, India
Tim Spann, Field Engineer, Cloudera, United States
Isabel Garcia, Gender Technical Adviser, Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, United States
Joanne Cooper, Founder & CEO, ID Exchange, Australia
Hamed Alemohammad, Chief Data Scientist, Radiant Earth Foundation, United States
Brendan Noakes, Adjunct Professor, New York University, United States
Adam Burns, Founder, free2air
Astha Kapoor, Aapti Institute, India
Misha Belkindas, Founder and Managing Director, Open Data Watch Consulting, United States
Vsevolod Salnikov, Co-Founder, @EisphorIA
Patricia Facultad, Partnerships Officer, World Food Programme, Italy
Bettina Koebler, Design Researcher and Service Designer, Politics for Tomorrow, Germany
René Clausen Nielsen, Data Innovation Strategist, United Nations Global Pulse, Denmark
Rossano Schifanella, University of Turin and ISI Foundation, Italy
Bruno Lepri, Head of Research Unit, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Kyriaki Kalimeri, ISI Foundation, Italy
Tuba Bircan, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Mario Rasetti, Professor, ISI Foundation, Italy
Francesco Bonchi, ISI Foundation, Italy
Viviana Bono, University of Turin, Italy
Nicole Harper, Editor, Digital Future Society, Spain
Mia Dowman, Proposition Lead for Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Yamir Moreno, Professor of Physics, University of Zaragoza and Principal Scientist, ISI Foundation, Spain
Maurizio Sbogar, Unaffiliated, Italy
Boris Villazon Terrazas, Boricles, Spain
Diego Caro, Adjunct Professor, Data Science Institute, Universidad del Desarrollo and Telefónica I+D Chile, Chile
Robert Bjarnason, Citizens Foundation America, Iceland
Erik Wetter, Stockholm School of Economics & Flowminder, Sweden
Valerio Basile, University of Turin, Italy
Siim Esko, Positium, Estonia
Esther Minguela Carpintero, Founder, Localidata
Juan Carlos De Martin, Professor, Nexa Center for Internet & Society at Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Sara Capecchi, University of Turin, Italy
David Pastor-Escuredo, Lead Data Scientist — itdUPM, Technical University Madrid, Spain
Mar Schoebel, Executive Assistant, Telefónica, Spain
John Belchamber, Telefonica SA, United Kingdom
Jacob Ohrvik-Stott, Unaffiliated
Tim Bean, Fellow, Institute for Data Marketing, United Kingdom
Rongkun Wang, University of Science and Technology of China, China
Iban Eguia Moraza, CERN, Spain
Rodolfo Baggio, Bocconi University, Italy
Diletta Di Marco, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
Cristina Gena, University of Turin, Italy
Pablo Collada, Researcher, Unaffiliated
Chris Knighting, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Ray Walshe, Adapt Research Centre at Dublin City University, Ireland
Barend Mons, Professor, Leiden University Medical Center and CODATA, The Netherlands
Christine Kirkpatrick, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, United States
Symeon Papadopoulos, Senior Researcher, Centre for Research & Technology — Hellas and Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Mariangiola Dezani, Professor, University of Turin, Italy
Jose Manuel Bernabeu Auban, Instituto Tecnologico de Informatica, Spain
Ernestina Menasalvas, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Katherine Townsend, COO of Data.org and Executive Director of Open Data Collaboratives, United States
Paolo Bellavista, Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
Samuel Klein, Steward, MIT Knowledge Futures Group, United States
Zach Verdin, MIT Knowledge Futures Group, United States
Manlio De Domenico, Head of CoMuNe Lab, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Ana García Robles, Secretary General, Big Data Value Association
Flavio S Correa da Silva, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Prof Ana B. Bovan, President, CEDEF, Metropolitan University, United States
Dr. Juan Pane, Centro de Desarrollo Sostenible, Paraguay
Anys Boukli, Digital Partners, Switzerland
Milad Katebi, Data Scientist, BE Business
Annie Agarwal, Founder and Executive Director, 360ImpactData.Org
Marta Arsovska Tomovska, Director for PAR, UNDP and Office of the Prime Minister of Serbia, Serbia
Prakhar Mehrotra, Senior Director of Machine Learning, Walmart, United States
Paolo Giudici, Professor, University of Pavia, Italy
Ferruccio Damiani, Professor Doctor, University of Turin, Italy
Margus Tiru, Chief Methodologist, Positium, Estonia
Marcos Sacristán Cepeda, Tree Technology SA, Spain
Jonas Onland, CEO and Expert of Digital Transformation, Serendipity, The Netherlands
Maurizio Sbogar, Infrastructures Sector Coordinator, Tekniker, Spain
Tuomo Tuikka, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Caj Södergård, Research Professor, VTT, Finland
Aitor Arnaiz, Tekniker, Spain
Erki Saluveer, CEO, Positium, Estonia
Stefano Piotto, University of Salerno, Italy
Salvatore Cospito, CTO, Datmean, Spain
Dörthe Koerner, Senior Adviser, The Brønnøysund Register Centre, Norway
Christopher Brooks, Flowminder Foundation, United Kingdom
Catherine Vogel, Co-Coordinator, GIZ Data Lab, Germany
Hans De Canck, VUB AI Experience Center / AI for the Common Good / CLAIRE Belgium, Belgium
Yolanda Martínez, InterAmerican Development Bank, Chile
Julian Ranger, Executive Chairman & Founder, digi.me, United Kingdom
Rosa Meo, University of Turin, Italy
Judith Libchaber, Founder & Managing Director, @DataCity Lab, Spain
Alejandro Rodríguez González, Associate Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Buster Franken, FruitPunch AI, The Netherlands
Per-Olof Svensk, Swedish Transport Administration, Sweden
Giuseppe Attardi, Professor, University of Pisa, Italy
Andrew Oram, O’Reilly Media, United States
Josh Reynolds, Unaffiliated, United States
Peter Wells, Unaffiliated, United Kingdom
Pieter Boon, Co-founder & CEO, Cape AI, South Africa
Alessandro Druetto, University of Turin, Italy
Marko Turpeinen, CEO / Adjunct Professor, 1001 Lakes / Aalto University, Finland
Dan Wu, Housing Futures, United States
Stefan Van Baelen, Data Scientist, IMEC vzw, Germany
Gaurav Godhwani, CivicDataLab, India
Dörthe Koerner, Senior Adviser, The Brønnøysund Register Centre, Norway
Srini Venkatramanan, University of Virginia, United States
Beth Blauer, Executive Director of Centers for Civic Impact, John Hopkins University, United States
Nuria De Lama, European Programs Manager, Atos
Christian Merz, Co-Coordinator, GIZ Data Lab, Germany
Francesca De Chiara, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Maithri Vangala, BrightHive, United States
André Grow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
Daniela Perrotta, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany
Susan Aaronson, Research Professor and Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, George Washington
Alexandra Silfverstolpe, Founder & Managing Director, Data Act Lab, Sweden
Thais Ruiz de Alda, Director, Digitalfems, Spain
Dosse Sossouga, ADET (Amis des Etrangers au Togo: ADET), Togo
Geertrui Mieke De Ketelaere, imec, Belgium
Jenny Barnea, Data Analyst, Measurable Meaningful Data Design, United Kingdom
Graham MacDonald, Chief Data Scientist, Urban Institute, United States
Bob Gradeck, Project Director of the University of Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Regional Data Center, United States
Peter Addo, Project Director, French Development Agency, France
Bettina Schaller, Head Group Public Affairs, The Adecco Group, Switzerland
Ian Thompson, Unaffiliated, United Kingdom
Kieran Sharpey-Schafer, Palindrome Data, South Africa
Mary Benjamins, Amsterdam Filmmaker, The Netherlands
Fredrik Lindén, CoFounder, MyData Ideell förening Sweden, Sweden
Marit Holm Torseth, Senior Advisor, Brønnøysund Register Centre, Norway
Linus Bengtsson, Executive Director, Flowminder, Switzerland
David Shrier, Managing Director, Visionary Future LLC, United States
Rosemary Okello-Orlale, Academic, Kenya
Jaime De Mora, Data scientist and strategist, CARTO, Spain and the United States
Frederico Gardaphe, Qri, Inc., United States
Ania Calderon, Executive Director, Open Data Charter
Paolo Invernizzi, Consultant, Italy
Nikesh Balami, CEO, Open Knowledge Nepal, Nepal
Matt Perault, Center on Science & Technology Policy at Duke University, United States
Sergii Mikhtoniuk, Founder, kamu.dev, Canada
Brian Aoaeh, Co-Founder and General Partner of REFASHIOND Ventures;Co-Founder & Co-Organizer of The Worldwide Supply Chain Federation; Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, United States
Soon Chun, Professor, City University of New York, United States
Nancy Daneau, Associate Vice Provost for Research, New York University, United States
Luca Anselma, University of Turin, Italy
Maurits Vijsma, Unaffiliated, The Netherlands
Taylor Kendal, Learning Economy Foundation
Quincy Childs, Knowledge Futures Group (MIT), United States
Aurore Paligot, Tapp, The Netherlands
Alberto Bitonti, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Matias Zabaljauregui, CEO, Venten Consulting Network; Founder, Argand Nonprofit DAO — AI for LATAM, Argentina
Camilla Bertoncin, Nesta, United Kingdom
Aline Blankertz, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, Germany
Tina Woods, CEO & Founder, Collider Health, United Kingdom
Anthony Cosgrove, Co-Founder, Harbrdata.com, United Kingdom
Gavin Starks, Dgen.net, United Kingdom
Sepi Chakaveh, Course Director in Data Science & AI, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Stephanie Pau, Health Futures Design Researcher, XHealth Lab
Rahma Beaugrand, Unaffiliated
Joann Rhodes, Healthcare Strategy and Transformation, TransRes Ltd, United Kingdom
Tamara Zubatiy, VeriCrypt, United States
Matt Rumsey, Research and Communications Manager, Center for Open Data Enterprise, United States
Fabrice Tocco, Co-CEO, DAWEX, France
Dane Gambrell, The GovLab, United States
Rory Macmillan, Partner, Macmillan Keck Attorneys & Solicitors, Switzerland/United States
Deepti Atrish, CEO & Founder, Poonyah Care Ltd, United Kingdom
Stefania Milan, Associate Professor of New Media, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tyler Kleykamp, Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation, Georgetown University, United States
Gabriel Zech, Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany
Donald Lobo, CEO, Chintu Gudiya Foundation and Project Tech4Dev, United States/India
Kieran Brown, Berkeley Research Group, United States
Lea Marais, Heartbeat Medical, Germany
Arsalan Noorafkan, Co-Founder, Atlys Networks, Canada
Fabio Malagnino, Digital Communication and Open Government, Piedmont Regional Council, Italy
Samuel Fraiberger, Computational Social Scientist, World Bank
Rachel Joynes, Liverpool Health Partners, United Kingdom
Phillip Noble, Managing Partner, Strategic Project Partners, Australia
Titi Kanti Lestari, Statistics Indonesia
Simon Miles, Director of the Centre for Urban Science and Progress, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
Siddhartha Chaturvedi, Microsoft
Stacey Rolland, Unaffiliated
Riya Singh, University of Chicago’s International Innovation Corps, United States
Damien Jacques, Dalberg Data Insights, Belgium
Jan Lorenz, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
H.V. Jagadish, Director, Michigan Institute for Data Science, United States
Thoai Ngo, Global Program Director, Poverty, Gender, and Youth, Population Council
John Pougué Biyong, PhD student, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Leyla Keser, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey
Rachel Sibande, Program Director, Digital Impact Alliance,United Nations Foundation
Omar Seidu, Ghana Statistical Service
Mark Hereward, Associate Director, Data & Analytics, UNICEF
Dr. Alison Knight, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Yee Chin, Student, University of Sydney, Australia
Salvatore Iaconesi, Founder of the Research Center, Human Ecosystems Relazioni, Italy
Christian Racca, Senior Engineer and BIG DIVE Program Manager, TOP-IX, Italy
Maciej Możejewski, Director, Open Society Institute BWF, Poland
Bernie Hogan, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Petra Konecna, Senior Consultant, Deloitte, Czech Republic
Aristea Fotopoulou, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Leonardo Camiciotti, Executive Director, TOP-IX Consortium, Italy
Thomas Tombal, University of Namur, Belgium
Rutger Van Zuidam, Odyssey.org, The Netherlands
Ben McAlister, hl7.org.uk, United Kingdom
Esperanza Magpantay, Senior Statistician, ITU,
Folke Hermansson Snickars, Founding Member of MyData Global, Sweden
Juliana Carvalho Cortes Silva, PhD Student, University of Porto, Portugal
Ronald Jansen, Chief Data Innovation and Capacity Development, United Nations Statistics Division
Emily Pryor, Executive Director, Data2X, United States
Juan Pablo Marin Diaz, CEO, Datasketch, Colombia
Mohammad Hossein Khani, Open Data Head, Transparency for Iran, Iran
Hawi Rapudo, Kijiji Yeetu, Kenya
Chen Feng, Assistant Professor, New York University
Weenarin Lulitanonda, Thailand Clean Air Network, Thailand
Steinar Skagemo, Senior Adviser, The Brønnøysund Register Centre, Norway
Licia Capra, University College London, United Kingdom
Chantal Re, La Dua Valadda SCS, Italy
Giovanni Quattrone, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Roger Gorman, ProFinda.com, United Kingdom
Daniele Quercia, Nokia Bell Labs
Bernadette Hyland-Wood, University of Queensland, Australia
Emanuele Massaro, EPFL, Switzerland
Evaristus Ezekwem, New York University, United States
Shikta Das, Honorary Lecturer, University College London, United Kingdom
Jessica Seddon, Princeton University, United States
Theresa Pardo, Center for Technology in Government of the University at Albany, SUNY, United States
Wesley Hau, Chair, Agency Open Data Community of Practice, Canada
Ellie Fitzpatrick, PricewaterhouseCoopers, United Kingdom
Aimee Whitcroft, Data 4D, New Zealand
Megan O’Flynn, Unaffiliated, Ireland
Lequanne Collins-Bacchus, Product Manager, Government of Canada, Canada
Nora Kensington, Unaffiliated, Canada
Guy Stecklov, Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
Tiziano Blasi, ActionAid Italia, Italy
Harpinder Collacott, Executive Director, Development Initiatives, United Kingdom
Ugo Montevecchi, Unaffiliated, Italy
Filippo Candela, Compagnia di San Paolo, Italy
Milena Krumova, European Institute for Technologies, Education and Digitalisation, Bulgaria
Alexander Madama, Chief Technologist for Healthcare and Life Sciences, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, United States
Vicenc Ferrer, Mediktor
Samira Khan, Senior Manager of Global Impact Engagement, United States
Andrei Dusmikeev, CEO, Medium Systems LLC — Disease risks from environment, United Kingdom
Dipesh Mistry, Knowledge and Insights Manager, CitizenMe, United Kingdom
Milena Ivkovic, Director, Blok74 Urban Simulations / Urban Communications Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Neisan Massarrat, Senior Director, SecondMuse, Italy
Maneesh Juneja, Digital Health Futurist, MJ Analytics Ltd
Jeffery Smith, VP of Public Policy, AMIA
Jenny Huang, Co-Founder, IFOSSF, United States
Juliana Couras, Master’s Student, Univeristy of Porto and University of Aveiro, Portugal
Terry Jackson, Director of Content Partnerships. Cottenham Open Community Interest Company, United Kingdom
Giovanni Colavizza, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jackie Yan, GSS
Thiago Vaz Simas dos Santos,Technological Federal University from Paraná, Brazil
Cat Harwood-Smith, Director of Insight and Improvement, British Red Cross, United Kingdom
Mohamed Timoulali, GTOPIC, Morocco
June Choi, General Partner, Serval Ventures, United States
Julia Turska, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Riel Miller, Paris, France
Irina Rish, University of Montreal, Canada
Elena Ikonomovska, Head of Machine Learning & AI, Change.org, United States
Ana Londral, Value for Health CoLAB, Portugal
Nikos Manouselis, Agroknow, Greece
Antonio Pepe, Doctor, “Ospedale Maggiore” Verona Borgo Trento Hospital Verona, Italy
Geoff Mulgan, University College London, United Kingdom
Sean Griffin, CEO, Disaster Tech, United States
Marcelo Cabr, Arapyau Foundation, Brazil
Gurkirat Sekhon, New York University, United States
Stacy Prendeville, Researcher, Spain
Danielle Beltran, Data Strategist, Spain
Özge Nilay Yalcin, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Rachel Han, Opendatasoft
Marcelo Cabr, Arapyau Foundation, Brazil
Kelsey Markey, Master’s Student, New York University
Max Lynam, Founder, isgood.ai, Australia
Kay McGowan, Future State — UN Foundation
Juan Carlos Rodríguez Rojo, Engaging Citizens, Spain
Ana Ouriques, CEO Land Insight & Resources, Board United Nations Association of Australia, Australia
Mark Craddock, Co-Founder, Global Certification and Training, United Kingdom
Pablo Gómez, Genasys Inc, Spain
David Gordon, Longliv Ventures, Israel
Vicente Castillo Guillén, Unaffiliated, Spain
Filippo Imberti, Overmap, Italy
Hilary Kane, Unaffiliated, United States
Daniel Harris, Founder, Kendraio, United Kingdom
Harshit Sinha, Team Leader, M/s H. M. Sinha, India
Kate Farrahi, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
David Watts, Professor, La Trobe University Law School, Australia
Scott Hammesfahr, Unaffiliated, United States
Jean Hindriks, Head of the Economics School, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Pieter Ballon, Director, imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Fabio Pianesi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler and EIT Digital
Alberto Gómez Isassi, Co-Founder of Irys and Director of Tamaulipas Media Lab, United States
Jeremy Boy, Data Scientist, UNDP Accelerator Labs, France
Agata Soccini, University of Turin
Jannes Nys, Ghent University, Belgium
Milan van den Heuvel, Ghent University, Belgium
Joel Gurin, President, Center for Open Data Enterprise, United States
Elena Sinel, Founder & CEO, Teens in AI, Chile
Marcos Brito, Instituto Brasileiro de Mercados e Capitais, Brazil
Donald Case, CEO, BizCare, Inc., Brazil
Bettina Köbler, Politics for Tomorrow, Germany
Chris Were, Verida, Australia
Alvaro Rojo Perez, Genasys, Spain
Hasan Suzen, President & CEO, Beyond the Horizon International Strategic Studies Group & Hybrid Core Co., Belgium
Lorena Pérez Campillo, Professor and Researcher UPV/EHU, Spain
Dana Chermesh, CEO, inCitu, United States
Anna Hermsen, TNO, The Netherlands
Fausto Villani, TBox Chain, Italy
Audrey Lobo-Pulo, Phoensight, Australia
Enrique Munoz de Cote, Atchai, United Kingdom
Morgan Briggs, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Sonia Yamileth Castro, Colombia
Jai Ganesh Udayasankaran, Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN), India
Shrestha Gattani, Dalberg, India
Enrique Munoz de Cote, Atchai Ltd, United Kingdom
Julien Foucart, Head of Data (Belgium) of the Havas Media Group, Belgium
Catia Marques, Population Services International Angola and Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Nova University of Lisbon, Angola
Andrew Kanter, Director and CMO, Columbia International eHealth Lab/Intelligent Medical Objects, United States
Munib Mesinovic, NYU Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Hannah Alsdurf, University of Ottawa, Canada
Yuetong Wang, Southeast University, China
Gordana Halavanja, Co-Operating Systems, Germany
Jens Cheung, Social Research, Australia
Afke Schaart, GSMA, Belgium
Kris Broekaert, World Economic Forum, Switzerland
Azima Abakirova, Technical Support Consultant, Kyrgyzstan
Vikas Dwivedi, Palladium, United States
Andrzej Klimczuk, Assistant Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Paul Riser, Director of Detroit Urban Solutions, Techtown Detroit, United States
Hank Graber, CEO, The Mat|r Project, United States
Simon Sylvester-Chaudhuri, CIV:LAB and The Grid
Anthony Boanada-Fuchs, University of St. Gallen, Brazil and Switzerland
Eri Saikawa, Emory University, United States
Shweta Arora, Unaffiliated, India
Rita Deng, Senior Planning Specialist, Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, United States
Rico Ancog, Associate Professor, University of the Philippines Los Baños, The Philippines
José Luis Cervera Ferri, CEO, DevStat Servicios de Consultoría Estadística, Spain
Peter B. Larsen, Owner & Director, Smart City Insights ApS, Denmark
Javier Camacho, Director, Sostenibilidad Etica, Spain
Maria Clara Desalvo, Bridge the Gap, Argentina
Elia Gandolfi, Data scientist, Social Enterprise, Spain
Nicolas Kleovoulou, Clinical Operations, Pharmaceuticals R&D, United Kingdom
Matthias Mazenauer, Statistical Office of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
Neil Britto, The Intersector Project
Lylian Coelho Ferreira, Vice President and Co-Founder, WomEnvAi — women and men in environment and artificial intelligence, France
Bernhard Krabina, KDZ — Centre for Public Administration Research, Austria
Balakrishna Pisupati, Chairperson, FLEDGE, Indonesia
Robert Ndugwa, UN-Habitat, Kenya
Michail Skaliotis, European Commission
Andrea Thornbury, Belfast City Council, United Kingdom
Marc Bosch Matas, Idencity Consulting, Spain
Jonathan Askin, Professor, Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic, United States
Kernie Obimakinde, Unaffiliated, Nigeria
Omar Bakari, Tanzania Datalab, Tanzania
Carlos Santos-Burgoa, Professor, George Washington University School of Public Health, United States
Sasha Luccioni, Director of Scientific Projects — AI for Humanity, Mila Institute, Canada
Jaron Heard, Civic Software Foundation, United States
Darya Zlochevsky, School of Visual Arts, United States
Abu Bakarr Jalloh, Sanusi Research & Consulting, Sierra Leone
Ricardo Chavarriaga, CLAIRE Office Switzerland, Switzerland
Nathan Koeshall, Catalyst Balkans, Serbia
Iain Henderson, MyData Global, Scotland
Daniel Mietchen, School of Data Science, University of Virginia, United States
Justin Arenstein, Code for Africa
Patsian Low, Chief of Staff, AVPN, Singapore
Charles Sandy, Public Health Department, Zimbabwe
Braden Cody, Yale University, United States
Daniele Narduzzi, Italy
Andrew Collinge, Advisor, Smart Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Clio Flego, MediaAC programme, Italy
Thanos Sklavenitis, Lloyd’s Banking Group and DataLab Alumnus
Filippo Candela, Data Scientist, Compagnia di San Paolo, Italy
Nathan Koeshall, Catalyst Balkans, Serbia
Ivan Caballero, Citibeats
Federico Bartolomucci, Research Fellow on Management Engineering and Social Innovation, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Roderick Besseling, Data Steward, Unaffiliated
Donald Case, Owner, BizCare, Inc, United States
Godwin Yeboah, Institute for Global Sustainable Development based at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Aaron Bean, Managing Partner, Asemio, United States
Thomas Johnson, Unaffiliated, United States
Haris Zacharatos, Cyprus, Cellock Ltd.
Peter Elias, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Wonoh Kim, Unaffiliated, Korea
Inese Kušķe, the State Chancellery, Latvia
Nicola Nixon, Governance Director, The Asia Foundation, Vietnam
Iris Patten, Pivot Partnership, United States and South Africa
Hector Revelo Herrera, Professor, Escuela Politécnica del Ejército, Ecuador
Stefany Lazieh, Rutgers University, United States
Andrew Ritcheson, Unaffiliated
Apoorv Anand, CivicDataLab, India
Enrique Zapata, CAF — Development Bank of Latin America, Mexico
Marco Marchetti, Unaffiliated, Italy
Marco Cortella, Unaffiliated, Italy
Josh Whitkin, Independent Researcher, Australia
Eduardo Bejar, Director, Fundapi, Ecuador
Greg Fisher, Manufacturer and Startup Advisor, United States
Viviana Letizia, Elsevier
Julio Lopez, Datalat, Ecuador
Irendra Radjawali, Kemitraan, Indonesia
Stefano Bonfa, Mediterranean University RC-@ Oxford Sustainable Development Big Data Institute, United Kingdom
Mariela Alfonzo, CEO, State of Place, United States
Larissa Galdino de Magalhães Santos, Post-Doctoral Researcher in Digital Policies, CyberBRICS, School of Law at the Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Maria Claudia Bodino, Ministry of Innovation — Italian Digital Transformation Team — Italian Government, Italy
Pierre Lonchampt, Helpful Engineering
Luigi Bertuzzi, Unaffiliated, Italy
Seema Mehra Parihar, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, India
Guruprabha Guruswamy, George Mason University, United States
Liljana Howe, Unaffiliated, United Kingdom
Hilman Arioaji, Lapor Covid19, Indonesia
Sanny Jegillos, Senior Advisor, United Nations, Thailand
Tamas Erkelens, City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Niklas Zimmer, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Gong Yi, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Sherman Kong, Digital Impact Alliance at UN Foundation
Johnson Onyibe, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria
