Periodic Reporting for period 4 - DATAJUSTICE (Global data justice in the era of big data: toward an inclusive framing of informational rights and freedoms)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2022-09-01 do 2023-02-28
Case Study 1 - field research in Kenya focusing on a) biometric systems in civil registration and health contexts, and b) Fintech mobile platforms. The research involves focus groups and individual interviews, as well as policy and legal analysis.
Case Study 2 – field research in Singapore has a policy and corporate entity focus and includes observation in policy and legal fora, as well as interviews with key informants involved in developing and shaping Singapore’s data economy.
Case Study 3 – involves following the processes of guideline and standard-setting in the humanitarian sector, looking mainly at ID, fintech and mobile technologies.
Web Tracking Subproject – this project involves browser-based tests in more than 50 countries around the world to test which trackers load on domestic websites in each country. The aim is to understand the dimensions of the global data market and to conduct the first global analysis of different ecosystems within the larger market. The results of the study will be released as open data for the research community and will offer new methodologies and ideas for how to study under-researched aspects of the data market.
The project has also resulted in the establishment of a subproject to conduct a study of the data market that goes beyond the state of the art by including a range of countries from high to low income, and by working across linguistic and economic blocs. We expect this study to offer new (open) data for researchers in the field of web metrics that will for the first time allow global comparison of the data market.
In 2020 the project published the first (open-access) book comprising different country and regional perspectives on how the Covid-19 pandemic affects governance through technology. This publication brings together a global network of scholars, journalists and activists working on diverse topics, focusing in on how the state of emergency in different countries affects the development and implementation of technologies of control and surveillance.
We expect the current data analysis phase (2020-21) to lead into a two-year dissemination phase during which we will focus on formulating our findings so that they are useful to civil society organisations dealing with data governance around the world, and conducting dissemination events with our network of CSO’s in different regions to discuss our findings and shape our conclusions. We have established a strong network focusing on two dimensions: international reach and interdisciplinary communication. We will continue to work on building this network during 2021, and expect it to be both an output of our research, and a resource for the dissemination phase.