Tuesday, 26th May 2020, online

Sharing data: Towards a data commons

Programme

Speakers

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Programme

Tuesday, 26th May, 2020
09.00 – 09.45
Virtual welcome coffee on REMOTELY GREEN*
10.00 – 10.30
Introduction
Jean-Pierre Reymond, Chargé de mission, Head of Innovation Partnerships, Permanent Mission of Switzerland in Geneva
Welcome and opening remarks
Dorothy Tembo, Executive Director ad interim, International Trade Centre (ITC) Eckhard Elsen, Director for Research and Computing, Member of CERN directorate
10.30 – 11.30
Session 1 – Setting the scene : Benefits and risks of sharing/not sharing data
The panel will discuss the two following questions :
  1. Where international organizations, governments and businesses stand on data sharing and what are the benefits and risks ?
  2. What prevents data sharing and what can be done to address these challenges?
    • Robert Koopman, Chief Economist, World Trade Organization
    • Diego Kuonen, Professor of Data Science, GSEM, University of Geneva & CEO, Statoo Consulting
    • Nuria Oliver, Chief Data Scientist, Data-Pop Alliance
    • Thierno Ibrahima Diop, Lead Data scientist at BAAMTU, GalsenAI Cofounder, Zindi Ambassador
Moderator: Marion Jansen, Director and Chief Economist, ITC
11.30 – 12.30
Brainstorming
The brainstorm session will gather small groups of panellists and participants (maximum 30) to discuss the two questions below. Each group will provide one proposal for each question. These proposals will be submitted to the participants appreciation online early afternoon and discussed by panel 2 :

A. What is required from international organizations to work with stakeholders such as governments and businesses towards “data commons” B. How to encourage public and private actors to follow open data policies rather than holding onto individual data resource while ensuring the right balance between data sharing and data protection?
12.30 – 14.00
Break
Virtual coffee is offered on REMOTELY GREEN*
14.00
Proposals of the breakout groups are published online: stay tuned
14.30 – 15.00
Opinion poll on the proposals
Reconvening in the plenary The key ideas emerging from each breakout group will be submitted to all participants Moderator : Jovan Kurbalija, Founding Director of Diplo Foundation and Head of Geneva Internet Platform
15.00 – 16.00
Session 2 – How do we move forward : Win-win solutions for data sharing
The panel will discuss the two questions A. and B. of the brainstorming breakout group session and bring as well specific views on the proposals made collectively by the audience.
  • Zeynep Engin, Senior Research Associate, UCL, London
  • John Wilbanks, Chief Commons Officer at Sage Bionetworks
  • Alex Sceberras Trigona, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta
  • Veronica Cretu, Governance Lead, Innovating Governance Association Austria
  • Mitchell Baker, Executive Chairwoman and CEO of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozilla Corporation
Moderator: Tim Smith, Head Collaboration, Devices, Applications at CERN The participation of some panelists (session 1. and 2.) might be subject to changes
16.00 – 16.15
The proposals of Dialogue 3. for the UN World Data Forum
The synthesis Jovan Kurbalija Closing remarks Jean-Pierre Reymond

Virtual coffee
If you would like to meet randomly panelists and participants around a virtual cup of coffee and have a chat on data issues, connect REMOTELY GREEN during virtual coffee time. You are invited to register in advance on https://remotely.green/. If you have already registered previously, REMOTELY GREEN will welcome you again.

If you wish to attend, please register here no later than May 22, 2020

Speakers

MR JEAN-PIERRE REYMOND

DOROTHY TEMBO

ECKHARD ELSEN

DIEGO KUONEN

NURIA OLIVER

THIERNO IBRAHIMA DIOP

MARION JANSEN

ALICA DALY

YANNICK HEINIGER

CRAIG BURGESS

JOVAN KURBALIJA

ZEYNEP ENGIN

JOHN WILBANKS

ALEX SCEBERRAS TRIGONA

VERONICA CRETU

TIM SMITH

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