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Lab Fellows investigate data harms and conflict areas
Two Data Justice Fellows joined us (remotely) in February and are currently working on fascinating projects that explore new dimensions of data justice Ira Anjali Anwar investigates the right to self determination in the age of big data and is currently developing a...
New Project on the Future Generations Act with Not-Equal.Tech
We are delighted to have been provided an award as part of the ESPRC-funded Not Equal network for a short project that will look at ways to advance data justice in the context of the Welsh Government's Future Generations Act. For the project, we will work with the...
Data Justice Lab at CPDP Conference
Lab members are contributing to this year's Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference which will be held 27-29 January. The event, which usually takes place in Brussels, Belgium, is going online this year due to the ongoing pandemic. Lab Co-director...
Data Justice Conference moves online
We can now confirm that the Data Justice conference on 'Civic Participation in the Datafied Society' will go ahead on 20-21 May, 2021. However, in light of the continued circumstances surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, it will now be online only. We will offer...
We welcome our first Data Justice Fellow
We are happy to welcome Dr Silvia Mollicchi to the Lab as our first Data Justice Fellow! Silvia is a researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute. As a Data Justice Lab Fellow, she is working on developing a typology of public administration algorithmic decision-making...
Talking about digital citizenship and civic participation
On 10 December, Data Justice Lab Co-Director Arne Hintz participated in a workshop on Artifcial intelligence and civil society participation in policy-making processes, hosted by the democracies.ai project at University of Geneva. Drawing from research findings of the...
Data Justice Lab at AoIR 2020
We are delighted to be able to participate in the annual conference for the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) which runs virtually this year from 27-31 October, 2020. DJL's Emiliano Treré will kick things off with a co-organised pre-conference on the 26th of...
Report on AI policy in the EU from DATAJUSTICE project
We are delighted to publish this Working Paper on 'European Artificial Intelligence Policy: Mapping the Institutional Landscape' from the ERC-funded DATAJUSTICE project. This publication forms part of the policy workstream of the project and informs further analysis...
Data Justice Lab publishes guidebook on data literacy tools
The Data Justice Lab has published a guidebook of data literacy tools for advancing data justice. You can download it here as pdf file. Assembled and analysed by the Lab’s Jess Brand and Ina Sander, the document provides an overview of different types of tools that...
Response to the EU public consultation on the White Paper on AI
Data Justice Lab’s Fieke Jansen submitted a response to the EU public consultation on the White Paper on AI - a European approach. In it she stresses the need to put human rights and environmental well-being at the center of Europe’s Trustworthy AI approach. The...
Data Justice Conference to take place in 2021
As the initial date for the Data Justice 2020 Civic Participation in a Datafied Society (May this year) became impossible due to the Coronavirus outbreak, we were hoping that a date later this year might still be feasible. However, with the prolonged lock-downs in...
Data Justice 2020 conference postponed
As will come as little surprise, in light of developments relating to Covid-19 we have decided to move the date for Data Justice 2020: Civic Participation in a Datafied Society scheduled for 28/29 May at Cardiff University. We are now tentatively planning to hold the...