[csaa-forum] Disrupting Data Injustices II: 10 Nov 12pm - 4pm

[Michael Richardson]

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Dear colleagues,

Please join us next Tuesday Nov 10 12pm – 4pm for the second Disrupting Data Injustices Roundtable. Held jointly with the Data Justice stream of the UNSW Allens Hub for Technology Law and Innovation and Centre for AI and Data Governance at Singapore Management at Singapore Management University. Register via Eventbrite<https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/disrupting-data-injustices-ii-a-covid-19-virtual-roundtable-tickets-127253918897>.

Join expert panellists to spark dialogue and open new lines of inquiry about how data injustices might be challenged and disrupted.

From the deep surveillance of already-marginalised populations to hyped but ineffectual contact tracing apps, the covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing data injustices and created new ones. Inequities of access to high-speed bandwidth, increased reliance on digital platforms, decisions based on processes that leverage data to compound disadvantage, and heightened dependence on apps that allocate jobs in the gig economy: these and countless other phenomena have raised the stakes of the growing push for data justice by activists, researchers and policymakers. In pandemic times, grappling with data and its infrastructures, processes and impacts is even more crucial to public health, social justice, economic equality and political change.

Jointly convened by the Data Justice Research Network of the UNSW Allens Hub for Technology Law and Innovation and the Centre for AI and Data Governance at Singapore Management University (SMU), this virtual, transdisciplinary roundtable aims to gather ideas, spark dialogue and open new lines of inquiry, possibility and collaboration about how data injustices might be challenged and disrupted. The half-day will consist of two panels, with each speaker presenting for 10 minutes, followed by ample time for in-depth discussion. These two panels will be broken up with an informal ideas session, prompted by brief provocations closely tied to the theme of the roundtable. The ideas session will be screen-free, allowing people to go for a walk or grab something to eat.

SPEAKERS

PANEL ONE: COVID-19 and digital solutionism

Claire Daniel, UNSW Claire is a PhD candidate in the faculty of Built Environment at UNSW. Covid-19 has forced city governments and similar organisations to rely on data and digital technology to an unprecedented degree in order to continue fundamental urban planning and governance functions. Claire will report on the findings of a discussion between 40 urban planners and technologists that took place on 3 April 2020, and reflect on which of the anticipated impacts have materialised six months later, and to what degree

Dr Monique Mann, Deakin Monique is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin. Monique will present new research from a collaborative project examining COVID-19 contact-tracing apps as a new form of technological solutionism—a technological or techno-social “fix” that can be deployed at national scale to solve an urgent, supranational problem.

Professor Lyria Bennett Moses, UNSW Lyria is Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and a Professor in the Faculty of Law at UNSW Sydney. Lyria will discuss legal issues with the COVIDSafe contact tracing app introduced by the Australian Government.



PANEL TWO: COVID-19, control and ethics

Professor Mark Findlay, SMU & Nydia Remolina, SMU Mark Findlay is the Director of the SMU Centre for AI and Data Governance. He has recently taken the lead in publishing substantial working papers on ethical challenges posed by COVID-19 control technologies, regulating these challenges and discriminatory consequences of COVID risk/vulnerability modelling. Nydia is a Research Associate at the SMU Centre for AI and Data Governance. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Financial Regulation at Singapore Management University. Mark will present his paper “Pandemic Paradox and Polanyi: Financial markets rise, economies crash, and regulators toss a coin”, and Nydia will offer a response to his arguments.

Jane Loo, SMU Jane is a law graduate with interests in international human rights, governance, and ethics. She is currently working with Professor Findlay on the “Rule of Law, Legitimacy and Effective COVID-19 Control Technologies”. Jane will discuss how scrutiny of discriminatory consequences of control policies on vulnerable groups can bring to light under-explored themes of injustice in the handling of the pandemic, focussing specifically on the experiences of migrant laborers in Singapore.

Alicia Wee, SMU Alicia is a Research Associate with the Singapore Management University’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Data Governance. They are currently conducting research on the implications of pandemic surveillance technology. Their presentation seeks to examine community disquiet in the context of AI-assisted surveillance technology utilised during the COVID-19 pandemic, and examine social responses to the escalated use of surveillance technologies.



Convened by the Data Justice Research Network and organised by Danielle Hynes, Lyria Bennett-Moses, Janet Chan, Michael Richardson, and Rachel Rowe
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