Data For Policy 2022
Brussels Programme
13th December 2022
U-Residence at Vrije University, Etterbeek, Brussels, Belgium
please note that the programme may be subject to change at short notice
* denotes presenting author † denotes virtual presenter
08:30 Brussels Time
Room: Lobby
Arrival and refreshments
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08:00 UTC
09:00 Brussels Time
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00:00 Seattle Time
Room: Green
Welcome remarks – Dr Francesco Mureddu, Regional Chair
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08:20 UTC
09:20 Brussels Time
16:20 Hong Kong Time
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Room: Green
09:20 – 10:05
A series of ignition talks curated by Francesco Mureddu (Regional Chair)
Chair: Rob Heyman (imec-SMIT-VUB)
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Grace Milne (Project Manager and Research Associate at The Lisbon Council) Satellite Open Data for Smart City Services Development
Alessandro Paciaroni (Project Manager and Research Associate at The Lisbon Council) Green responsible privacy preservIng data operations along across the edge-core-cloud continuum
Nathan Carvalho (Project Manager at The Lisbon Council) User-centricity, interoperability and citizens’ data sovereignty: the foundations of cross-border digital public services
Danny Vandenbroucke (Research Manager at SADL/KU Leuven R&D) Urban Data Space for Green Deal
Karim Hamza (Senior Associate Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Data for Africa
09:05 UTC
10:05 Brussels Time
5 minutes room changeover time
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09:10 UTC
10:10 Brussels Time
17:10 Hong Kong Time
01:10 Seattle Time
Room: Green
10:10 – 10:55
Parallel Session 1A
Standard Track 1a ‘Data-driven Transformations in Policy and Governance’ (panel)
Chair: Martina Barbero (Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data)
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[4538] ‘Data usage improving public policies and policymaking’
Welcome & Challenges presentation – Zach Smith (Trust-IT, Policy Cloud)
Project Presentations:
AI4PublicPolicy – John Soldatos (TECNE)
DECIDO – Antonio Filograna (ENG)
IntelComp – Cecilia Cabello (FECYT)
Policy Cloud – Panayiotis Michael (ICCS)
- Discussion on the challenges – Zach Smith and panellists
- Q&A
- Wrap-up – Zach Smith
09:10 UTC
10:10 Brussels Time
17:10 Hong Kong Time
01:10 Seattle Time
Room: Red
10:10 – 10:55
Parallel Session 1B
Special Track ‘The future of Border and external security: From Data to Policies
Chair: Francesco Leoni (Politecnico di Milano)
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[3679] Pekka Koskela, Jori Paananen, Anni Karinsalo and Laura Salmela*† (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd). Enhancing Border Checks with Blockchain towards Self-Sovereign Identity.
[8235] Georgia Gkioka and Gregoris Mentzas (Information Management Unit, ICCS, National Technical University of Athens). Data Analytics for Technology Acceptance Monitoring of SBC Technologies
[9820] Sara Domingo Andres* and Zachary Goldberg (Trilateral Research). New Technologies for Border Control: Opportunities and Regulatory Challenges.
09:55 UTC
10:55 Brussels Time
Room: Polyvalent
10:55 – 11:10 Short break and refreshments
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10:10 UTC
11:10 Brussels Time
18:10 Hong Kong Time
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Room: Green
11:10 – 11:55
Plenary panel – Use of high value datasets for policy making
Chair: Emanuele Baldacci (European Commission)
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Use of high value datasets for policy making
The EU data strategy aims to establish a sustainable framework for the reuse of data to support the development of the single market. Its ultimate goal is to generate economic value and wellbeing. Better access to public sector data is a critical cornerstone of this strategy. This session will focus on recent developments in the EU legal framework to accelerate the reuse of public sector data for evidence-based policy making and the challenges ahead
Chair: Emanuele Baldacci (Director of Resources and CIO, Eurostat, European Commission)
Panellists:
Jean-Claude Burgelman (Professor and Academic Coordinator of Open Science Policy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Jon Crowcroft (Marconi Professor of Communication Systems, University of Cambridge and The Alan Turing Institute)
Francesco Mureddu (Senior Director, Lisbon Council)
10:55 UTC
11:55 Brussels Time
5 minutes room changeover time
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11:00 UTC
12:00 Brussels Time
19:00 Hong Kong Time
03:00 Seattle Time
Room: Green
12:00 – 12:45
Parallel Session 2A
Standard Track ’(Big) Data for Public Value Creation’
Chair: John Soldatos (Netcompany-Intrasoft)
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[1000] Maria Claudia Bodino* and Athena Vassilopoulos (BDTI, European Commission) Enabling a data-driven public sector: from hype to action using the Big Data Test Infrastructure (BDTI)
[2505] Gaby Umbach* (European University Institute). Statistical and Data Literacy in Policy-Making.
[6120] Francesco Leoni* (Politecnico di Milano). What makes the “data for policy” discourse different? Analysing themes and topics of the data for policy field.
11:00 UTC
12:00 Brussels Time
19:00 Hong Kong Time
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Room: Red
12:00 – 13:00
Special Track Workshop
For technical reasons, this session will not be available virtually
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[3290] Suha Mohamed* and Vinay Narayan* (Aapti Institute) ‘Exploring the possibilities for citizen-generated data and governance models to shape sustainable cities and communities’
11:45 UTC
12:45 Brussels Time
Room: Polyvalent
12:45 – 13:45
Long break – lunch and networking
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12:45 UTC
13:45 Brussels Time
20:45 Hong Kong Time
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Room: Green
13:45 – 14:30
Keynote Lecture: AI for delivering government services
Speaker: Gianluca Misuraca (Executive Director AI4GOV – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Chair: Emanuele Baldacci (European Commission)
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13:30 UTC
14:30 Brussels Time
5 minutes room changeover time
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13:35 UTC
14:35 Brussels Time
21:35 Hong Kong Time
05:35 Seattle Time
Room: Green
14:35 – 15:20
Parallel Session 3A
Standard Track 2 ‘Data Technologies and Analytics for Policy and Governance’
Chair: Francesco Mureddu (Lisbon Council)
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[2292] Maedeh Nasri*, Sarah Giest, Yung-Ting Tsou, Mitra Baratchi (Leiden University), Alexander Koutamanis (Delft University of Technology) and Carolien Rieffe (Leiden University). Role of movement data in creating inclusive school settings for students.
[5409] Yulu Pi* (University of Warwick) and Cagatay Turkay (University of Warwick). A Multidisciplinary Literature Review and Framework For AI-Assisted Policymaking
[8550] John Soldatos*, Thanasis Papadakis, Ioannis Christou, Charalambos Ipektsidis (Netcompany-Intrasoft) and Alessandro Amicone (GFT Italia). AI Solutions for Transparent, Explainable and Regulatory Compliant Public Policy Development.
[8834] Alex Ingrams*, Sarah Giest (Leiden University), Pradeep Murukannaiah (Delft University) and Luciano Cavalcante Siebert (Leiden University). The effects of moral framing on crowdsourced comments: The case of regulations.gov
13:35 UTC
14:35 Brussels Time
21:35 Hong Kong Time
05:35 Seattle Time
Room: Red
14:35 – 15:20
Parallel Session 3B
Standard Track ‘Participatory data collection’
Chair: Antonio Filograna (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.)
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[727] Soujanya Sridharan* and Shefali Girish (Aapti Institute). Data stewards in service of Artificial Intelligence: Reimagining AI futures towards a participatory paradigm for technological innovation.
[4660] Shradhanjali Sarma (Dunzo Digital Private Limited), Utkarsh Kumar* (Techpolicy Deck Foundation), Sharanya Mukherjee (Techpolicy Deck Foundation) and Shatakshi Shekhar (Techpolicy Deck Foundation). Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression on Social Media.
[5100] Kwawdo Oti-Sarpong* (University of Cambridge), Viviana Angeley Bastidas Melo (University of Cambridge), Jennifer Schooling (University of Cambridge), Li Wan (University of Cambridge), Timea Nochta (University of Birmingham) and Junqing Tang (Peking University). Digital Innovation in the Urban Built Environment: A Competency Framework for City Managers.
[7081] Morine Amutorine* (Data Science Africa). Increasing data sharing for social good: Lessons from Africa’s COVID-19 response.
14:20 UTC
15:20 Brussels Time
Room: Polyvalent
15:20 – 15:35 Short break
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14:35 UTC
15:35 Brussels Time
23:35 Hong Kong Time
07:35 Seattle Time
Room: Green
15:35 – 16:20
Parallel Session 4A
Standard Track ‘Regulatory frameworks and oversight for data sharing’
Chair: Stefaan Verhulst (GovLab, NYU)
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[5807] Tom van der Sleen* (Utrecht University). Voluntary business-to-government data sharing for advancing SDGs: exploring actor alignment to create mutual benefits.
[8194] Renan Gadoni Canaan* (Centre for Law, Technology and Society, University of Ottawa). Stimulating innovation through data protection regulations: a TWAIL-based de-colonizing critique of the inequity of opportunities for domestic firms arising from replicating EU’s GDPR into the Brazilian General Data Protection Law.
[7263] Marika Arena, Giovanni Azzone, Laura Dell’Agostino*† and Giulia Piantoni (Politecnico di Milano). How to measure the innovation ecosystems’ shared value? A balanced approach.
[7549] Phil Godsiff (INDEX, University of Exeter Business School) and Steve Brewer (University of Lincoln). Using a data sharing framework for regulatory oversight.
14:35 UTC
15:35 Brussels Time
23:35 Hong Kong Time
07:35 Seattle Time
Room: Red
15:35 – 16:20
Parallel Session 4B
Special Track ‘Public data for private gain or public benefit? Debating the use of public sector data by private actors’
Chairs: Lucille Tetley-Brown† (University of Glasgow), Angela Daly† (Dundee University) and Rob Heyman (VUB)
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[118] Amrita Nanda (Aapti Institute) and Vinay Narayan* (Aapti Institute). Data stewardship for responsible sharing of public data – an analysis of stewardship models for better urban governance
[3438] Lucille Tetley-Brown† (University of Glasgow), Angela Daly† (University of Dundee), Esperanza Miyake† (University of Strathclyde) and Annie Sorbie† (University of Edinburgh). Unlocking public value from personal data? Brokering citizen-centred data-use spaces for the private sector – the Scottish Example.
[4320] Teresa Scassa*† (University of Ottawa). Public Sector Use of Private Sector Personal Data: Towards Best Practices
[4371] Jess Reia* (School of Data Science, University of Virginia). Data for the Night: Digital Rights, Trust, and Responsible Engagement with Data in 24-Hour Cities.
15:20 UTC
16:20 Brussels Time
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15:25 UTC
16:25 Brussels Time
23:25 Hong Kong Time
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Room: Green
16:25 – 17:15
Closing Plenary Panel – Future avenues in Data for Policy
Chair: Zeynep Engin (Founder and CEO, Data for Policy and the Alan Turing Institute)
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Chair: Zeynep Engin (Founder and CEO, Data for Policy and the Alan Turing Institute)
Panellists:
Francesco Mureddu (Senior Director, The Lisbon Council)
Barbara Ubaldi (Acting Head of the Division on Open and Innovative Governments, OECD Public Governance Directorate)
Stefaan Verhulst (Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer, GovLab)
16:15 UTC
17:15 Brussels Time
Room: Polyvalent
17:15 – 18:45
Networking reception