Control and Trust as Moderating Mechanisms in addressing Vulnerability for the Design of Business and Economic Models (ConTriVE)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Warwick
Department Name: WMG
Abstract
Personal data holds great potential to benefit commerce and society, but, at the institutional level, concerns are rising over the risks associated with data access, ownership, privacy and confidentiality. The main purpose of this project is to investigate whether and how these institutional concerns are reflected in the perceptions of individual users. This proposal will establish a new programme of research in digital economy by understanding how individual subjective perceptions of users with regard to cybersecurity relate to organizational and institutional views on cybersecurity. By gaining this understanding we seek to develop new business models which would allow businesses to minimize individual perceptions of vulnerability with regard to issues of privacy, security, and trust.
We propose that individual subjective vulnerability with regard to cybersecurity issues is an important factor which impact upon business models and the development of digital economy. We consider vulnerability from three perspectives:
1) An individual's perspective of their own vulnerability;
2) The perspective of the entity the individual is interacting with in the digital domain (which could be another individual, or a business); and
3) The institution that is tasked to regulate and protect all entities within the system (e.g., the state, regulatory body, etc.).
All three entities are likely to assess individual vulnerabilities in different ways and would have a separate sets of trade-offs against the risks. An individual considers the trade-off between the choice/freedom to use a service against the risk of being vulnerable. A business, on the other hand, approximates individual's vulnerability and makes an assessment of risk which is important for its business model in order to trade off revenues and provide additional service to mitigate that risk to the extent that it would pacify the user and the regulator. Finally, from a state point of view, the aggregation of a large numbers of users creates a complex system of data sharing which bears a systemic risk that may result in individual vulnerabilities which are hard to quantify and manage.
Proposed project will implement "in-the-wild" strategy in order to:
(i) Measure individual vulnerability with regard to cybersecurity issues using different contexts and taking into account individual heterogeneity;
(ii) Using these context-dependent measure, propose new business models which would mitigate perceptions of cybersecurity risks;
(iii) Suggest tools for policy makers and regulators to decrease cybersecurity risks via bridging the gap between subjective vulnerability of users and objective vulnerability measured by businesses and other institutions.
We propose that individual subjective vulnerability with regard to cybersecurity issues is an important factor which impact upon business models and the development of digital economy. We consider vulnerability from three perspectives:
1) An individual's perspective of their own vulnerability;
2) The perspective of the entity the individual is interacting with in the digital domain (which could be another individual, or a business); and
3) The institution that is tasked to regulate and protect all entities within the system (e.g., the state, regulatory body, etc.).
All three entities are likely to assess individual vulnerabilities in different ways and would have a separate sets of trade-offs against the risks. An individual considers the trade-off between the choice/freedom to use a service against the risk of being vulnerable. A business, on the other hand, approximates individual's vulnerability and makes an assessment of risk which is important for its business model in order to trade off revenues and provide additional service to mitigate that risk to the extent that it would pacify the user and the regulator. Finally, from a state point of view, the aggregation of a large numbers of users creates a complex system of data sharing which bears a systemic risk that may result in individual vulnerabilities which are hard to quantify and manage.
Proposed project will implement "in-the-wild" strategy in order to:
(i) Measure individual vulnerability with regard to cybersecurity issues using different contexts and taking into account individual heterogeneity;
(ii) Using these context-dependent measure, propose new business models which would mitigate perceptions of cybersecurity risks;
(iii) Suggest tools for policy makers and regulators to decrease cybersecurity risks via bridging the gap between subjective vulnerability of users and objective vulnerability measured by businesses and other institutions.
Planned Impact
We will focus on: businesses, consumers, wider society and the academic community. Our "in-the-wild" strategy is of integrated nature and represents an extensive eco-system of which involves users and businesses. (1) Users: ConTriVE will suggest ways to improve technology used by individuals and households to incorporate user preferences into making demand predictions. This would allow users to make "better" (more optimal) use of technology and inform product and service consumption decisions which would increase their quality of life. In addition to users participating in our research directly, we will also provide educational feedback to the general public. (2) Private sector: Our project will provide a practical tool in the form of user preferences prediction models which would propose ways of anticipating future consumer needs/wants through behavioural and decision-theoretic modelling. Proposed models will be converted into a practical tool useful to businesses developing technology. Technology providers will be able to use this tool to decrease user feelings of vulnerability, increase user satisfaction, and thereby increase business profitability by offering better value for money. (3) Policy-makers: ConTriVE will offer new ways in which users will interact with ICT which will make useful policy recommendations as to how the interactions between consumers and their self-generated data could be regulated and supported by the public sector. ConTriVE will also extensively cover the problem of cybersecurity which will help create more effective data protection policies for the future. (4) Scientific community: ConTriVE will contribute to all disciplines involved in the project via new knowledge.
Our impact strategy includes: (a) Exploration: we will engage all stakeholders of personal data, particularly individuals and firms, for discovering emerging scenarios, usages and behaviours through live scenarios in real environments. We will explore the legal, technological and market framework around which data can be secured and protected and, more importantly, how the cybersecurity issues are being perceived by users and organizations. (b) Experimentation: the living lab will implement the HAT for individuals to experience live cybersecurity scenarios, live market exchanges with firms with permission from data donors (at both user and business level) which will be analysed in their context during the evaluation activity. Individuals will have the ability to decide what type of data, how the data is collected, what kind of device to be used in the data collection and the contexts for the data collection. The intention here is to help develop a new type of 'smart' and empowered consumers, aware of the new horizons for the use of metadata which are offered by the digital economy, and who understand how these opportunities can be turned into better well being and effective purchasing decisions through decreasing vulnerability to cybersecurity issues. This experimentation on data, human decisions and new business models will also provide both opportunities for emerging business models and research contributions to academia. (c) Evaluation: Through "in-the-wild" strategy, we will assess new ideas and innovative concepts emerging from the HAT technology in real life situations through various dimensions such as socio-ergonomic, socio-cognitive and socio-economic aspects; making observations on the potential for business transformations. ConTriVE will evaluate and assist firms in their transformation capability to move into the personal data and digital economy through an assessment and understanding of how their business models can be transformed to decrease vulnerability. (d) Co-creation: ConTriVE lab will bring together users and businesses who will be able to co-create in order to develop new products and services providing better individual sense of security bridging the gap between subjective and objective vulnerability.
Our impact strategy includes: (a) Exploration: we will engage all stakeholders of personal data, particularly individuals and firms, for discovering emerging scenarios, usages and behaviours through live scenarios in real environments. We will explore the legal, technological and market framework around which data can be secured and protected and, more importantly, how the cybersecurity issues are being perceived by users and organizations. (b) Experimentation: the living lab will implement the HAT for individuals to experience live cybersecurity scenarios, live market exchanges with firms with permission from data donors (at both user and business level) which will be analysed in their context during the evaluation activity. Individuals will have the ability to decide what type of data, how the data is collected, what kind of device to be used in the data collection and the contexts for the data collection. The intention here is to help develop a new type of 'smart' and empowered consumers, aware of the new horizons for the use of metadata which are offered by the digital economy, and who understand how these opportunities can be turned into better well being and effective purchasing decisions through decreasing vulnerability to cybersecurity issues. This experimentation on data, human decisions and new business models will also provide both opportunities for emerging business models and research contributions to academia. (c) Evaluation: Through "in-the-wild" strategy, we will assess new ideas and innovative concepts emerging from the HAT technology in real life situations through various dimensions such as socio-ergonomic, socio-cognitive and socio-economic aspects; making observations on the potential for business transformations. ConTriVE will evaluate and assist firms in their transformation capability to move into the personal data and digital economy through an assessment and understanding of how their business models can be transformed to decrease vulnerability. (d) Co-creation: ConTriVE lab will bring together users and businesses who will be able to co-create in order to develop new products and services providing better individual sense of security bridging the gap between subjective and objective vulnerability.
Publications
Guo W
(2017)
Global network centrality of university rankings.
in Royal Society open science
Kharlamov A
(2020)
The impact of servitization and digitization on productivity and profitability of the firm: a systematic approach
in Production Planning & Control
Loomes G
(2017)
Do Preference Reversals Disappear When We Allow for Probabilistic Choice?
in Management Science
Butler D.J.
(2018)
Predictably intransitive preferences
in Judgment and Decision Making
Del Vecchio M
(2020)
Improving productivity in Hollywood with data science: Using emotional arcs of movies to drive product and service innovation in entertainment industries
in Journal of the Operational Research Society
Chandler, J.D.
(2019)
How Does Innovation Emerge in a Service Ecosystem?
in Journal of Service Research
Pogrebna G
(2018)
Female babies and risk-aversion: Causal evidence from hospital wards.
in Journal of health economics
Ng I
(2017)
The Internet-of-Things: Review and research directions
in International Journal of Research in Marketing
Kharlamov A
(2020)
Limited evidence for servitisation in UK publishing: an empirical analysis
in International Journal of Business Environment
Li, Zh
(2016)
Attitudes to Uncertainty in a Strategic Setting
in Economic Journal
Description | The project's most significant achievement is in developing the design principles of the DataBuyer mechanism to reveal how individuals understand and exercise control and trust in handling vulnerability. DataBuyer is a mechanism that allows the direct exchange of information between individual users and/or organisation through personal controller personal data accounts. These accounts allow individuals to pull in the data they generate across various different apps and services into their own private microserver database, meaning they legally own the information within. They can then collate and cross-reference that information in ways that is meaningful and useful. Owning data in this way means individuals have the power to share that data with whomever they please, as much or as little data as they like, and stop when they do not wish to share it. By leveraging the DataBuyer to reveal how individuals exercise control and handle vulnerability, the project team also designed a code of practice for personal data exchange for person-controlled data accounts. (https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59e5e08bfe54ef97e3d095f0/t/5aab9680352f5397b6139ce6/1521194626103/HAT+Code+of+Practice+and+Certification+2017.05.18.pdf) By the end of the project, an Alpha version of the Databuyer was released for testing by early adopters and the tech development community. The Alpha platform consists of a personal data account (HAT), a data0trading capability based on the code of practice, buyers registration with data exchange proposal capability, as well as the actual data exchange. All of the databuyer technology has been made available as open source, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. (More info here: https://developers.hubofallthings.com/home/tech-stack/databuyer.html) |
Exploitation Route | The Databuyer and its associated code of practice detail all the thinking that goes behind the design of controls and trusts as moderating mechanisms to address vulnerability. The same principles can be used to design experiments around how individuals handle their data in other contexts. As the Databuyer is an open source code, it is freely available for others who work in the personal data space. Companies are free to build on the code commercially. They can also use the same principles to trade personal data in their domains. The Databuyer is therefore a standard trading platform for personal data that can be offered by firms to their customers. Roll-out of the Databuyer The research project's findings have built and put in place all that is necessary to create a trading platform for personal data. The Alpha version of the Databuyer and its technology has now been handed over to the HAT Foundation, a social enterprise spin-off tasked to roll-out the personal controller personal data initiative to individual users globally and to revolutionise how individuals handle the vast amounts of personal data that we are pouring online. Through the Databuyer, the research team established the HAT Living Labs to give academics real, privacy-preserving subject data and insights. It provides individual's volunteer live data for research, so that research projects can use real-world data generated in real time. |
Sectors | Construction Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Electronics Energy Healthcare Leisure Activities including Sports Recreation and Tourism Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology Retail Transport |
URL | https://databuyer.hubofallthings.com/about |
Description | The findings have been used to inform the development of a Real-Time Privacy Preserving Audience Discovery tool for Dataswyft Ltd's data infrastructure platform. This enable Dataswyft's Data Wallet Solution to increase functionality to enable audience discoverability across all the data wallets that they power. These data wallets are expected to have impact on the underserved and unbanked population. |
First Year Of Impact | 2024 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Healthcare,Security and Diplomacy |
Impact Types | Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Beyond Control: The Need for Broader Data Ownership Rights: Briefing Note to Government |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
URL | https://medium.com/@irene.cl.ng/beyond-control-the-need-for-broader-data-ownership-rights-d3eba688e9... |
Description | Giving Economic Power of Personal Data Back to Citizens: A briefing note to government |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Description | Dynamic, Real time, On-demand Personalisation for Scaling (DROPS) |
Amount | £1,200,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/R033838/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2018 |
End | 06/2020 |
Title | Individual Ambiguity Attitude Dataset |
Description | This dataset is related to research output: Li, Zh., Loomes, G. & G. Pogrebna (2016) Attitudes to Uncertainty in a Strategic Setting. Economic Journal, forthcoming, Open Access coming soon. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | In order to meaure individual vulnerability towards cybersecurity risks, we need to take into account individual attitudes to ambiguity/uncertainty. This paper develops methodology of eliciting individual ambiguity attitude. |
URL | http://www.gannapogrebna.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-EJ-Data.xlsx |
Title | Preference Reversals General Method Dataset |
Description | This dataset is related to output: Loomes, G. & Pogrebna, G. (2017). Do Preference Reversals Disappear When We Allow for Probabilistic Choice? Management Science,Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 166-184 |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | The "preference reversal phenomenon," a systematic disparity between people's valuations and choices, poses challenges for theory and policy. Using a very general formulation of probabilistic preferences, we show that the phenomenon is not mainly due to intransitive choice. We find a high degree of regularity within choice tasks and also within valuation tasks, but the two types of tasks appear to evoke very different cognitive processes, even when the experimental environment tries to minimise differences. We discuss possible implications for modelling and eliciting preferences.This method has significant implication for measuring individual attitudes towards cybersecurity risks. |
URL | http://www.gannapogrebna.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2016-MS-raw.xlsx |
Description | Collaboration on Databox project |
Organisation | Imperial College London |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | In this indepth exchange with the EPSRC DataBox project led by Dr Dr. Hamed Haddadi at Imperial College (https://www.databoxproject.uk/about/), we provided data exchange platform (the Hub of all Things or HAT) for a hardware based IOT and data collection platform. |
Collaborator Contribution | Their input helped to further our thoughts in applying the HAT and Databuyer with hardware infrastructure (currently in the cloud) |
Impact | No outcomes as yet. |
Start Year | 2016 |
Description | Launch of the HAT Accelerator in collaboration with HAT Data Exchange and HAT Community Foundation |
Organisation | HAT Community Foundation |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We worked with the HAT Community Foundation to develop and launch the HAT Accelerator, which provides a platform for commercial partners and SMEs to adopt for data exchange and take advantage of a changing data economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | They provided the project with a 'live' environment in which to test the Databuyer technology. |
Impact | Development of the Databuyer technology started in 2018 but ceased due to Covid and the inability to progress the partnerships. |
Start Year | 2018 |
Title | Audience Builder |
Description | The learnings from the earlier DataBuyer software informed the work by Dataswyft Ltd to create the Audience Builder. Audience builder is a bespoke audience platform that can achieve optimal audience segmentation and discovery whilst processing large volumes of user data in real-time and providing a resource-efficient, accurate, scalable and privacy-preserving technology. The developed platform achieved optimal audience segmentation and discovery with significant accuracy without the need to "clean" data. Additionally, the developed capability was scalable across multiple applications owned by different organisations using decentralised self-sovereign data, with users fully permitting its use. Since the platform was integrated with advanced security-related capabilities, it was fully privacy-preserving without any possibility of identity leakage. As part of the developmental process, the team iteratively built an anonymised data lake of metadata integrated with the data wallet frameworks that can be queried to discover and report the audience sizes of audience segments whilst remaining fully privacy-preserving. Further, the team created a bespoke Audience System consisting of Audience Analytics API and Audience Targeting API to facilitate the discoverability and targeting of audiences and enable the matching of audiences with potential services while providing full privacy-centric capabilities. Due to the novel nature of the work undertaken, significant technological insights were obtained on the bespoke methodologies that can be utilised to develop a privacy-focused, resource-efficient, accurate and highly scalable platform that can achieve optimal audience segmentation and discovery whilst processing large volumes of user data in real-time. From a general perspective, the technologies developed will likely benefit not only the company but also the broader industry in the future. |
Type Of Technology | e-Business Platform |
Year Produced | 2024 |
Impact | The platform is expected to be licensed commercially in 2024 in the US. |
Title | DataBuyer |
Description | The DataBuyer is an experimental tool that allows individuals to understand and manage their personal data exchange, so as to allow controls and trusts as moderating mechanisms to review and potently address vulnerability. DataBuyer is a new model for data acquisition, one that is based on complete transparency, direct communication, and fair reimbursement. DataBuyer is a mechanism that allows the direct exchange of information between individual users and/or organisation through personal controller personal data accounts. These accounts allow individuals to pull in the data they generate across various different apps and services into their own private microserver database, meaning they legally own the information within. They can then collate and cross-reference that information in ways that is meaningful and useful. Owning data in this way means individuals have the power to share that data with whomever they please, as much or as little data as they like, and stop when they do not wish to share it. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | The Alpha version of the Databuyer and its technology has now been handed over to the HAT Community Foundation (HCF), a social enterprise spin-off from the HAT project (EP/K039911/1) tasked to roll-out the personal controller personal data initiative to individual users globally and to revolutionise how individuals handle the vast amounts of personal data that we are pouring online. Tthe project team together with HCF have worked with a number of companies including B.Heard; Savi; Good-Loops, Feral Horses to adopt the DataBuyer technology. These businesses are working with their partners to bring personal data from multiple industry siloes together to render better personalised services to better address control and vulnerability issues for individuals. |
URL | https://developers.hubofallthings.com/home/tech-stack/databuyer.html |
Title | Owl Numerical Library¶ |
Description | Owl is a dedicated library for engineering and scientific computing. It is designed in the functional programming language OCaml, and aims to provide programmers a powerful numerical framework to write concise, high-performance and type-safe applications. Documentation (latest): http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lw525/owl/ |
Type Of Technology | New/Improved Technique/Technology |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Impact | Owl is an emerging numerical library for scientific computing and engineering. The library is developed in the OCaml language and inherits all its powerful features such as static type checking, powerful module system, and superior runtime efficiency. Owl allows you to write succinct type-safe numerical applications in functional language without sacrificing performance, significantly reduces the cost from prototype to production use. |
URL | https://github.com/ryanrhymes/owl/releases/tag/0.3.0 |
Description | - Article on Medium.com - Image Recognition with Owl |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Explanatory article about Image Recognition with Owl that appeared on Medium.com |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://medium.com/@matriXanger/image-recognition-with-owl-a5a6d0caef33 |
Description | A Chinese government-backed fund is investing in a "decentralised data economy" in Europe - article in NS Tech |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | An article on investments coming into personal data start-ups including HAT Data Exchange, the start-up that was the spin-off from the HAT project. The article appeared on NS Tech, a new division of the New Statesman. Its readership comprises of technology leaders, including c-level IT decision-makers, heads of IT and technical IT professionals, all drawn from medium and enterprise-sized companies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://tech.newstatesman.com/business/a-chinese-government-backed-fund-is-investing-in-a-decentrali... |
Description | A Functional Numerical Software, Invited Talk at Bloomberg Headquarter London, December 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presenting the design of Owl and its parallel computation engine to an industry audience |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | All the web's 'read next' algorithms suck. It's time to upgrade - article in the WIRED World in 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article by Natalia Kucirkova on how systems controlled by individuals and not corporations, like the Hub of all Things (HAT), can help everyone find what they should be reading next |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-decentralised-data-will-make-better-reading-recommendations |
Description | Article in The Guardian: Scientists uncover formula for box office movie success |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article in The Guardian: Scientists uncover formula for box office movie success based on the following paper published on Cornell University's arXiv.org: The Data Science of Hollywood: Using Emotional Arcs of Movies to Drive Business Model Innovation in Entertainment Industries co-authored by project Co-Is Glenn Parry and Ganna Pogrebna and project researcher Alexander Kharlamov. Using artificial intelligence, the researchers analysed more than 6,000 scripts from the past 80 years and discovered all films fall within six emotional arcs. This new technology means scientists may be able to give the film industry the tools to understand their viewers and work out what they really want to see on screen. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jul/24/uk-scientists-uncover-formula-box-office-movie-success |
Description | Article in WIRED in 2019 issue: Decentralised AI has the potential to upend the online economy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | An article in WIRED magazine's annual issue that looks at how analysing big data on the edge will outclass offerings by more cumbersome centralised systems |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.wired.co.uk/article/decentralised-artificial-intelligence |
Description | Article on the BBC: The emotions that make a film a hit... or a miss |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article on the BBC written by project Co-I Ganna Pogrebna based on the following paper published on Cornell University's arXiv.org: The Data Science of Hollywood: Using Emotional Arcs of Movies to Drive Business Model Innovation in Entertainment Industries co-authored by project Co-Is Glenn Parry and Ganna Pogrebna and project researcher Alexander Kharlamov. Using artificial intelligence, the researchers analysed more than 6,000 scripts from the past 80 years and discovered all films fall within six emotional arcs. This new technology means scientists may be able to give the film industry the tools to understand their viewers and work out what they really want to see on screen. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46385657?fbclid=IwAR0BOVPVgg8NNHln9qZuWXuChwjQpom-ISF3... |
Description | BBC News article: Meet the data guardians taking on the tech giants |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article in the BBC about whether people care enough to bother about your personal data, featuring project PI Irene Ng speaking on the HAT and how data ownership rights. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47027072 |
Description | Behavioural Machine Learning for Media, BBC, Media City, Salford, Mancester 7-9th March, 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Academic only speaking event. Networking and sharing knowledge from the grant. Focused on the HAT learning. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy (CADE) 2017 (Venice, Italy) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The CADE Forum 2017 was an exclusive three-day forum held in Venice, Italy, bringing together academic and practitioner speakers to educate and to discuss the state of the art with PhD students, early career researchers and practitioners working within the digital economy. This year saw CADE enter its fourth year, following three successful years during which CADE grew from a predominately Western European forum to a European conference welcoming participants from Eastern Europe. In 2017, CADE Forum became a global event, with applicants from the USA and Australia, highlighting the increased importance of the digital economy and the Forum's relevance and popularity. This year, CADE also merged with WMG's Service Systems Forum to become a single event, tackling the topic of Smart Service Systems, Digital Innovation, Privacy and Trust. During CADE 2017, internationally-recognised thought leaders from a variety of subjects including Marketing, Service Management, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management and Computer Science shared their thoughts and latest research about the digital economy. The CADE Forum aims to discuss the current state of the art in the digital economy, with a focus not just on presenting the latest research, but also on opening up avenues for future research with a lengthy discussion session following the presentations. This year was no exception, with thought leaders presenting various cutting-edge research topics whilst simultaneously addressing a number of increasingly important issues that left open the possibility for future research. As well as the keynotes, for the first time in CADE's history this year saw the inclusion of parallel sessions, which gave participants the opportunity to present and then discuss their own research. With the format of CADE placing emphasis on discussion, participants were given up to 15 minutes each to present their research, followed by a short discussion. With topics ranging from the future of blockchain, to participation styles of young people in virtual worlds, these presentations provided a broad and thought-provoking insight into the type of research being conducted in the digital economy. Awards were also offered for best paper (overall), most relevant to practice and unique methodological approach. Much discussion also took place during CADE 2017's panel session, which saw the Forum's keynote speakers and scientific committee take open questions from participants. The first question drove a long discussion around the future of digital economy research and teaching. This question asked broadly: what needs to be done to advance digital economy research across disciplines, how can we encourage multidisciplinary work within the digital economy and how do we teach the additional knowledge created within said research. Interestingly, whilst the question's focus was on the first two areas, it was the teaching component that received considerable attention. The keynote speakers suggested different approaches, including interactive lectures, lectures from industry on best practice within the digital economy given that industry is seemingly ahead of academia in the digital economy at present (a gap that the Forum agreed needs closing), and creating a more comprehensive extra-curricular reading list which would subsequently be tested in class to ensure the reading is being completed. However, in view of the exponential amount of new knowledge coming into the world through ground-breaking research that needs to be learned and absorbed by students, imparting this effectively remains a considerable challenge for academia, and it is one that the Forum's panel put forth to the participants to solve, as they will be the ones teaching the research in the years to come. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/research/business_transformation/ssg/ssgabout/sswmgactivities/cade... |
Description | Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy (CADE) 2018 (Venice, Italy) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The 5th Competitive Advantage in the Digital Economy (CADE) Forum was an exclusive three-day event, bringing together academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges of the digital economy and present the latest cutting edge research. This year saw the CADE Forum enter its fifth year, and specifically, it focused on personal data, smart service systems and digital transformation. CADE's core objective is to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations and to continue building a platform for the development of a common language for digital economy research. The Forum has already built a reputation for creating new synergies between research groups both at Warwick and other institutions, and emphasis will continue to be placed on this as well as developing collaborative opportunities between participants at CADE. At CADE, emphasis was placed on discussion and collaboration, with plenty of time allocated to both your presentation, the subsequent discussion and additional time between parallel sessions and workshops for further in depth discussions with other participants. For the first time in 2018, the CADE Forum ran four workshops related to the personal data economy: Product Design in the Personal Data Economy; Student Experience and Teaching; Data-Driven Business Models; and Behavioural Visibility in Data (BeVID)- Experiencing New Research Methods with Reality Mining. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/wmg/research/business_transformation/ssg/ssgabout/sswmgactivities/cade... |
Description | Data Needs to Be More Personal in the 21st Century - Inc Magazine article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | HAT featured in an article on Inc magazine's website about how consumers want more data privacy and how that's a big opportunity for entrepreneurs |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.inc.com/drew-hendricks/data-needs-to-be-more-personal-in-the-21st-century.html |
Description | Data ownership, rights and controls: Reaching a common understanding - Discussions at a British Academy, Royal Society and techUK seminar on 3 October 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Participation at discussions at a British Academy, Royal Society and techUK seminar on 3 October 2018 which provided an opportunity to explore and understand the concept, value and limitations of the idea of 'data ownership'. It considered the sound bases from which to consider and probe the concept of data ownership and discussed issues relating to the ability to exert rights and control over data use. The dialogue was a follow-up to a British Academy and Royal Society seminar on 16 October 2017 that focused on data governance, resulting in a report Data management and use: Governance in the 21st Century. This year's seminar led to the production of a report entitled Data ownership, rights and controls: Reaching a common understanding. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/data-ownership-rights-and-controls-reaching-common-understanding |
Description | Distributed Data Analytics in Functional Language, Invited Talk at MathWorks, November 2017, Cambridge UK. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presenting the Owl's parallel computing and system design to an industry audience |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | FT podcast: Irene Ng on redistributing the economic power of data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | An interview on the FT with project PI Irene Ng on redistributing the economic power of data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Forbes article - Relaxed, Anxious, Ignorant: Our Attitudes Towards CyberSecurity Are Making The Problem Worse |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Article in Forbes magazine discussing an August 2018 study conducted by project Co-Is Ganna Pogrebna and Glenn Parry on individuals' perception of cybercrime and behaviour online, and how it can be categorized into four key 'risk attitudes' that vary depending on demographic and environment: opportunistic (worth the risk), anxious (not worth the risk), ignorant (don't know, don't engage) and relaxed (I'm not at risk). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.forbes.com/sites/charlestowersclark/2018/11/09/relaxed-anxious-ignorant-our-attitudes-to... |
Description | From GDPR to blockchain, we're getting more power over our data - The WIRED World in 2018 article |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article authored by project PI Professor Irene Ng on private data accounts hosted by data stores like the Hub of All Things (HAT) may be the first step towards the internet as a civil society, paving the way for a governing system where digital citizens, in the form of their private micro-server data account, do not merely have to depend on legislation to champion their private rights, but also have the economic power to enforce them as well. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.wired.co.uk/article/gdpr-personal-data-private-data-accounts |
Description | HAT Track at 5th Naples Forum on Service |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The HAT parallel session on Digitization and Datafication of Services took a data-driven perspective of Service Science, Service-Dominant Logic, and Network Theory in order to better explore the implications, challenges and direction of further digitization among services. It was a track of the 5th Naples Forum on Service, held in Sorrento, Italy on June 6-9, 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | HAT as one of five ground-breaking tech projects being worked on at UWE Bristol - techspark.co |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Hub of all Things featured as one of five ground-breaking tech projects being worked on at UWE Bristol |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://techspark.co/guest-blog-5-ground-breaking-tech-projects-worked-uwe-bristol/ |
Description | Interview with Anna Maria Tremonti on Canadian national radio's "The Current" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Project PI Irene Ng was interviewed by Anna Maria Tremonti of CBC Radio "The Current" on 13 April 2018 about the activities and implications of the breaches in trust that landed Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg in front of Congress. The interviewe also looked at what the Hub of All Things was, and how it would change the data landscape. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://medium.com/hub-of-all-things/irene-on-how-very-little-of-our-zetabytes-of-data-is-controlled... |
Description | IoT Applications- Bishop Fleming Seminar, 4th October 2017, Bristol |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Morning event for business people who have accounts with Bishop Fleming. All interested in personal data and how it impact on business models. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | IoT and Use SimpleWeb Seminar, 25th October 2017, Bristol |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | At this IT company, internal seminar. 20 people, all coders / software experts. Sharing knowledge and pushing the message on personal data. Great networking that has led to numerous new introductions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Let's make this the year we reclaim control of our data - The WIRED World in 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Article authored by project Co-I Jon Crowcroft on how differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, and GDPR could help consumers wrestle back control of their personal information |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | http://www.wired.co.uk/article/2018-data-privacy-control |
Description | Medium Article: Inception as a Service |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Article about Inception as a Service on Medium.com |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://medium.com/@matriXanger/inception-as-a-service-54d3afa1fed7 |
Description | MietSpiegel article: Facebook and Google: The Data Guards Fight Back |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An article in MietSpiegel on how the data guards are fighting back - German version of the BBC article entitled HAT as data guardian |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | New $66m Chinese fund to put money into Western European personal data start-ups - Article in PCR |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | An article on investments coming into personal data start-ups including HAT Data Exchange, the start-up that was the spin-off from the HAT project. The article appeared on www.pcr-online.biz, which delivers priceless trade information for the home and business computing sector. Its total average monthly readership figure across print, online, digital edition, PDF downloads, mobile and social channels tops 80,000 and is constantly growing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.pcr-online.biz/vendors/new-66m-chinese-fund-to-put-money-into-western-european-personal-... |
Description | Our personal data are precious - we must take back control - Financial Times |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Article in the Financial Times about the HAT and its role in helping individuals reclaim future personal data control |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.ft.com/content/3278e6dc-67af-11e7-9a66-93fb352ba1fe |
Description | Owl - A General Numerical Library, OCaml workshop colocated with ICFP (International Conference on Functional Programming), 7th Sept, 2017, Oxford, UK. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presenting the Owl's parallel computing and system design to an industry audience |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://ocaml.org/meetings/ocaml/2017/ |
Description | Owl - Data Science in OCaml, Tutorial at CUFP (Commercial Use of Functional Programming), 7th Sept, 2017, Oxford, UK |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presentation to an industry and academic audience on how to use Owl to address realwold data science challenges. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Personal Data as an Asset: Design and Incentive Alignments in a Personal Data Economy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presentation argued that a person-controlled personal data (PPD), technologically, legally and economically architected such that the individual owns a personal micro-server and therefore have full rights to the data within, much like owning a PC or a smartphone, is potentially a route to reducing transaction costs and innovating in the personal data economy. There was good engagement through discussion and debate. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://infolawcentre.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2018/01/17/personal-data-as-an-asset-design-and-incentive-alig... |
Description | Presentation at DSI Annual Meeting: SERVICE SYSTEMS: Service Experience Design (Austin, Texas) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | to be added |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/dsi/dsi16/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Event&selected_b... |
Description | Presentation at workshop on Responsible Research and Innovation by PRISMA, Brussels, Feb 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Responsible Research innovation becomes increasingly important with the emerging technologies in the digital economy. Dr Susan Wakenshaw, a Research Fellow on the project, attended the workshop on Responsible Research and Innovation by PRISMA (http://www.rri-prisma.eu/) from 6th-7th February 2018 in Brussels. Dr Wakenshaw presented the latest development of the Hub of all Things (HAT) and discussed with participants about the implications (social, ethical, technical, economic and legal) of HAT for Responsible Service Innovation (RRI). HAT as a pilot case in the responsible reserach and innnovation network, makes substantial contribution to the development of the roadmap for RRI. HAT aims to contribute to RRI in the UK by engaging in more substantive research on RRI for the emerging digital technologies such as AR, machine learning. The presentation was well received, and a few team has already in discussion for collaboration on upcoming research bids. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Provocation paper for Royal Society: Data management and use: governance in the 21st century |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A provocation paper submitted for discussions at a British Academy and Royal Society seminar on 16 October 2017 that focused on data governance, resulting in a report Data management and use: Governance in the 21st Century that addressed the changing data landscape and recommended a principled approach to data governance, and called for stewardship of the entire data governance landscape. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/Publications/2017/Data_management_and_use_governance_in_the_... |
Description | Radio interview for Newshour BBC World Service: How scientists uncover formula for box office movie success |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Radio interview for Newshour BBC World Service: How scientists uncover formula for box office movie success based on the following paper published on Cornell University's arXiv.org: The Data Science of Hollywood: Using Emotional Arcs of Movies to Drive Business Model Innovation in Entertainment Industries co-authored by project Co-Is Glenn Parry and Ganna Pogrebna and project researcher Alexander Kharlamov. Using artificial intelligence, the researchers analysed more than 6,000 scripts from the past 80 years and discovered all films fall within six emotional arcs. This new technology means scientists may be able to give the film industry the tools to understand their viewers and work out what they really want to see on screen. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.02221 |
Description | Servitization of the Home: IoT Development of Use-Visibility Measures, Technology and Innovation: Balancing Freedom and Progress, British Computer Society - Bristol, June 21st 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Computing experts and business people from Bristol and region. Very interested in application of the IoT in practice and how we have developed HAT. Lots of networking and subsequent contacts |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Talk at Glasgow University Computer Science GIST: "Containing Personal Data Processing with the Databox" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Project Co-I Richard Mortier presented on Containing Personal Data Processing with the Databox at Glasgow University Computer Science GIST (their HCI research group) on Nov 23 2017 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | The GDPR, market disrupters and innovators: friends or foes? Article in Privacy Laws & Business UK Report, Issue 96 (March 2018) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The HAT was featured in this article about the GDPR in a report by Privacy Laws & Business, which provides an independent privacy laws information service to many of the world's largest companies, specialist lawyers and has over 2000 clients in 53 countries. Its clients include 70% of the Global and UK top ten companies in the Financial Times lists. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.privacylaws.com/Publications/uk/ |
Description | The GDPR, market disrupters and innovators: friends or foes? Article in Slaughter & May newsletter |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | This article in law firm Slaughter & May's newsletter is a reprint of the article The GDPR, market disrupters and innovators: friends or foes? which appeared in Privacy Laws & Business UK Report, Issue 96 (March 2018) The HAT was featured in this article. Slaughter & May has clients throughout the world. They range from governments to entrepreneurs, from funds to leading banks, from retailers to entertainment companies and from diversified industrial conglomerates to Premier League football clubs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.slaughterandmay.com/media/2536727/the-gdpr-market-disrupters-and-innovators-friends-or-f... |
Description | The Internet of Us: What does privacy mean in the Digital Age?", Gregg Latcham Solicitors, 1 September 2016, Watershed, Bristol |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Speech and panel session on personal data and how HAT solves issues of GDPR, and helps with privacy and trust. Good networking and knowledge sharing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | The New Data Economy - Connect-World.com |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Article by Irene Ng on the new data economy |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://connect-world.com/2017/11/30/new-data-economy/ |
Description | WHY THE GDPR SIGNALS A GREATER BATTLE OVER DATA - Article in LS:N Global |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | An article written by project PI Irene Ng on how regulations such as the GDPR are just the beginning of a new power play between consumers and service providers. This was published on LS:N Global, a subscription-based insights platform that documents new consumer behaviour and key industry trends to give business professionals the confidence to make informed decisions about the future. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.lsnglobal.com/opinion/article/22233/why-the-gdpr-signals-a-greater-battle-over-data |
Description | What is your Business Model? Understanding business models and value. Leading Edge Thinking Workshop; Bristol Distinguished Address Series, 12th October 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | 10 business people in a workshop. Explaining business models and data and then having them think through their particular business and what they do. Explanation of HAT and the approach. Networking and knowledge sharing. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | What's Happening in the World of Research: Column article in Business Leader by Professor Glenn Parry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | In this article for Business Leader magazine, CONTRIVE CO-I Professor Glenn Parry talks about his research on business model innovation through the Internet of Things, and the privacy concern it raises. This includes his work on the HAT and data-sharing, as well as assessing perceived individual vulnerability towards sharing personal data. According to its website, Business Leader magazine readers are high-growth SMES and ambitious scale-up businesses that are fuelling growth across the UK. The magazine has a total readership of 87k senior decision makers in businesses across the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.businessleader.co.uk/whats-happening-world-research/42672/ |
Description | Why I Believe We Should Own Our Own Data - The Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | An excerpt from a 2017 Financial Times article on personal data featuring the HAT appeared in The Day, a daily online newspaper for teenagers focusing on the big issues transforming the world. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://theday.co.uk/opinions/why-i-believe-we-should-own-our-own-data |
Description | Wolfson-HAT Annual Symposium on the Digital Person 2017 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Wolfson-HAT Annual Symposium on the Digital Person 2017 served to raise awareness on the topic of personal data and discuss issues relating to personal data in the Internet Economy. Organised by the HAT Community Foundation with Wolfson College Cambridge, the symposium was a series of four panel discussions held over four weeks in March and April 2017 to explore critical issues around the uses (and abuses) of our personal data, as well as the wider questions of the Digital Person, freedom, identity, security and innovation. With broad-ranging appeal, the series was designed to interest practitioners and policy makers, as well as academics in the sciences, humanities and social sciences with discussions relating to law, computer science, history, sociology, entrepreneurship, business, economics and the global society. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://hatresearch.org/wolfson-hat-symposium-digital-person/ |
Description | Wolfson-HAT Annual Symposium on the Digital Person 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Digital Person symposium is an annual event organised by the HAT Community Foundation 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. ConTriVE P-I Irene Ng and Co-I Jon Crowcroft were co-chairs of this This unique cross-disciplinary symposium along with Professor John Naughton. Aside from creating a unique environment for a robust discussion that is relevant and important, the symposium also produced a white paper on the state of the digital person in a connected and digital society. The paper highlighted the issues, opportunities and tensions of the digital person in 2018 and summarised the challenge that can be put into the larger context of the Internet and its implications for society, technology and the economy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.hat-lab.org/programs/2018/9/8/output-wolfsonhat-2019 |