Data + Markets Workshop

TheDeveloping Data?project is organised by the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), Strathmore University’s Centre of Intellectual Property & Information Technology (CIPIT), and the University of Edinburgh’s Centre of African Studies (CAS).

Developing Data?

Data is a resource that is remaking politics and markets in East Africa and beyond. Join us to explore the themes in workshop format.

As more and more commercial and social life is routed through digital networks, it not only provides enhanced efficiencies and lower costs. It also creates new sources of value, namely the residual data about transactions and behaviour. This data is now captured by a variety of firms — including social media, advertisers, and mobile network providers — who collate, analyse, and monetise it. Some providers even find it fruitful to give away services for free in order to accumulate user data. Big data analytics undergird the growth of the digital credit sector, including in Kenya where more than 50 such firms track phone usage in order to offer loans. In other cases, firms use data internally, to refine services; the expanding off-grid solar sector, for instance, collects information on energy usage in order to monitor and maintain their infrastructure. Other data is sold as a commodity or directed toward changing behaviour among users.This workshop will explore modes of developing data markets, both in the sense of expanding their reach and worth, but also with an eye to how this new arena can be used for developmental purposes, including to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. In particular, the workshop will draw on the experience of East Africa’s three largest economies (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), working with industry, academia, and government to examine the emerging market for data.ProgrammeTimings are displayed for East Africa (EAT) and UK (BST, British Summer Time). 1 September 1300-1430 EAT: Regulating Data (11.00-12.30 BST)This panel will focus on the ways in which data markets co-evolve with legal frameworks and evaluate the challenges that remain for regulators in East Africa. 1500-1630 EAT: The Growth of East Africa&#x27;s Data Economy (13.00-14.30 BST) This session will investigate how data is transforming private enterprise, at look at the implications for employment, competitiveness, and industrial policy.2 September 1300-1430 EAT: Data + Money (11.00-12.30 BST)This theme looks at how data became a resource for financial services, how value is created, and how information is controlled. 1700-1830 EAT: Data + Digital Labour (15.00-16.30 BST) This panel will consider what kind of digital tasks are being performed, where they are done, who is performing them, and for whom. 3 September 1300-1430 EAT: Surveillance, Privacy &amp; Identification (11.00-12.30 BST)This session explores the drivers, politics, and struggles around digital identity.1500-1630 EAT: Equity &amp; Inclusion in Data Economies (13.00-14.30 BST)This theme aims to provide some context and empirical evidence to sustain a thoughtful, productive engagement on the question of how to create inclusive and equitable data economies.Platform and accessThis event will run on Zoom Webinar. Registered attendees will receive links for access to each session. Please note that each session will have its own link, and participants must register in advance for the sessions they would like to attend. Technical information about attending a Zoom Webinar is available on the <a href="https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/115004954946-Joining-and-participating-in-a-webinar-attendee-" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Zoom website</a>.About the projectThe Developing Data? project is organised by the Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), Strathmore University’s Centre of Intellectual Property &amp; Information Technology (CIPIT), and the University of Edinburgh’s Centre of African Studies (CAS). The Developing Data? project will host two workshops in 2020, one on the economies of digital data and another on the influence of digital on politics. The Devloping Data? team can be contacted at DevelopingData@ed.ac.uk. Information about you: how we use it and with whom we share itThe information you provide will be used by the University of Edinburgh to communicate with you ahead of the event you have registered for. This includes emailing you access details for the event itself. It will also be used to inform ourselves and our partners of the audience profile. Furthermore, we may choose to do an online evaluation of the event in arrears, in which case we will use your email address to contact you for that purpose.Information about your name, organisation and role/job title might be shared with our event partners in the Developing Data? network so as to inform everyone involved in the delivery of the event about the audience and their background. We will hold the personal data you provided us until the end of the Developing Data? project. If you have any questions about this statement or about the event, please contact DevelopingData@ed.ac.uk.

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