Addressing data management and information governance issues
Program contact
Professor Angie Raymond Director, Program on Data Management and Information Governance Professor of Business Law and Ethics 812-855–3449 angraymo@indiana.edu
The Program on Data Management and Information Governance was founded in November of 2017 to foster a collaborative, multidisciplinary, multisector, multistakeholder environment in which scholars, policymakers, and industry professionals can work together to translate research findings into effective policy.
The program seeks to address issues associated with data management and information governance through the exploration and creation of multidisciplinary structures, policies, procedures, processes, and controls implemented to manage data and information.
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Many writers, artists, and designers look and listen to prior works for inspiration. Under the law, the crucial inquiry is whether the source of the inspiration has been transformed sufficiently so that the new design can be considered “original” rather than “derived.” This Data Management and Information Governance Working Group will examine artistic expression in the digital world, with an eye toward the use of the Ostrom Frameworks.
The Working Group will be conducted both in person at the Ostrom Workshop on the IU Bloomington campus and online via Zoom. The Group will be an interactive one, with participants expected to be active in the group’s agenda creation and monthly activities.
The Working Group will meet the third Wednesday of each month during the academic year from 13:00 to 14:00 Eastern Standard Time.
The Working Group is co-hosted by Angie Raymond, Director, Ostrom Workshop Data Management and Information Governance; Tim Fort, the Eveleigh Professorship in Business Ethics, the Business Law and Ethics Department at the Kelley School of Business; and Jaime Carini, Adam Smith Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a doctoral student in Musicology and Organ Performance & Literature at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University.
Even though Bitcoin gets most of the press, the underlying tech, blockchain, is the bigger story; simply put, according to Goldman Sachs, it could “change ‘everything.’”
Indeed, the tech is sometimes billed as a panacea—from making businesses more efficient to engendering the growth of “smart” contracts and even securing medical devices, blockchain is now being investigated by a huge range of organizations and is attracting billions in venture funding. Interest is widespread, with organizations ranging from DARPA to Disney investing in blockchain. Wal-Mart is similarly deploying it to help manage its massive supply chain.
Countries are even getting into the game, from launching their own cryptocurrencies like Venezuela’s Petro, to Honduras and Greece using blockchain to aid in land registries, to its use in secure voting. But, as with every new innovation, there are both opportunities and drawbacks to consider.
The Ostrom Workshop is taking on the challenge of blockchain governance with a new collaborative initiative—the Blockchain Governance Initiative (BGI)—that will be a partnership between our Cybersecurity and Data Governance Programs.
To join our working group, and learn more about blockchain research going on around IU, please sign up for our dedicated blockchain mailing list.
According to Forbes, more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created every day. While it is almost incomprehensible to quantify the colossal amounts of data being used on a daily basis, how exactly that data is purposed and where it is being transferred to are questions that rise ethical concerns. In addition to Big Data, the technological landscape is changing as the progression of the Internet of Things (IoT) extends far beyond personal devices of the average user. By the year 2020 alone, more than 20.4 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices will be deployed, according to analyst firm Gartner.
As these technologies advance, large portions of consumer data collection will increase and with the adoption of machine learning integrated with enterprise technology, the right of privacy also continues to diminish. Transparency is critical to the ethical use of technology in a digital society. Influences on the security of emerging innovations, along with the unintended consequences that are brought along with the advancements of technology will need to be examined through a multidisciplinary lens if we hope to preserve transparency with the ethical uses of our day-to-day technologies.
The Cyber Ethics and Technology Society (CETS) is a new, collaborative initiative that bridges together academic disciplines to foster multidisciplinary dialogue on how the advancements of technology affect society and how we can establish ethical governance to technology as it rapidly progresses.
We have established a partnership between our Cybersecurity and Data Governance programs. We encourage student involvement and will be organizing career panels beneficial to the professional development of IU students.
We envision future partnerships between the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SICE), Kelley School of Business, Maurer School of Law, and Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR). To join our working group, and learn more about our ongoing research, please sign up for our dedicated CETS mailing list.
Although governance systems have been used to create public and private benefits from shared resources for a long time, such as with bodies of water, the use of a trust device as a mechanism to manage data is relatively new. In Bianca Wylie and Sean McDonald’s article What Is a Data Trust? for the Centre for International Governance Innovation, they explain:
When used for governance, data trusts can steward, maintain and manage how data is used and shared — from who is allowed access to it, and under what terms, to who gets to define the terms, and how. They can involve a number of approaches to solving a range of problems, creating different structures to experiment with governance models and solutions in an agile way.
Why host these conversations at the Ostrom Workshop?
As most reading this will be aware, Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in Economics exploring informal governance systems used to manage common resources. One principle within the “8 Principles for Managing a Commons,” was that those affected by the rules should be able to participate in modifying the rules. Hence, one fundamental question for us is to consider how we ensure those affected by the rules are able to participate in the modification of the rules. But, of course that is one of many question in the creation of a governance system to manage a data trust. The use of data is a double-edged sword, it can provide value to both those whom the data is collected from but can also put them at risk if the data is not provided or its sharing limited.
Interested in the Topic?
We hope to form a group of interested individuals and organizations to begin to grow the use of data trusts and to consider the issues that arise in the use of data trusts.
Join the Salon Series
As a first step, we will host a series of panel presentations discussing data trusts and the issues arising within the use and deployment of data trusts.
We will host salon sessions every third Thursday of the month at 11am (EST) via Zoom.
Digital governance promotes new forms of interaction between citizens and civic institutions, new modalities of public services and policies, and the possibility of using data and information to improve government processes and promote public welfare. This Data Management and Information Governance Working Group will examine digital governance, with an eye toward the use of the Ostrom Frameworks.
The Working Group will be conducted both in person at the Ostrom Workshop on the IU Bloomington campus and online, via zoom. The Group will be an interactive one, with participants expected to be active in the group's agenda creation and monthly activities.
The Working Group will meet the second Wednesday of each month, during the academic year. And will occur from 12:00 to 13:00 EST.
The Working Group is co-hosted by Angie Raymond, Director, Ostrom Workshop Data Management and Information Governance and Greg Bloom, 2019/20 Ostrom Visiting Scholar and the Founder of Open Referral which promotes open access to information about health, human, and social services.
Data Management & Information Governance Speaker Series, Spring 2019
Consumer Financial Data Conference/Working Group, Apr 2019
Indianapolis Consumer Data/Protection Speaker, June 2019
Transforming Research (Science Data Best Practices), Sep 2019
Doc and Joyce Searls, Ostrom Memorial Lecture, Oct 2019
ODR Forum, Data Management & Consensus collaborative communities, Oct 2019
Smart Cities: Security, Privacy, and Governance Best Practices, Oct 2019
Digital Governance Conference, Oct 2019
Recent funding
Social Science Research Commons, Seed Grant: Politics of Data in the Information Society
Managing the Business Cybersecurity Risk of the Future: The Aging Workforce Analysis and Development of Recommendations for Training and Risk Minimization
Program components
Ostrom Workshop Colloquium Series: Data Management and Information Governance scholars will be integrated into the series.
Data Management and Information Governance Speaker Series: Beginning in the Spring of 2018, Data Management and Information Governance scholars will speak during the lunch hour on Tuesday once a month to foster a networking community.
Outreach and Collaboration: The Data Management and Information Governance Program is in the process of establishing regional, national, and international collaborative initiatives. Contact Professor Raymond if you are interested in discussing opportunities.
Visiting Scholars: The program will host visiting scholars working on Data Management and Information Governance topics. Contact Professor Raymond for more information.
Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Authenticity, Integrity, and Security in a Digital World, Washington, DC, Feb. 19–20, 2019.
