Expert Workshop

Open Data and Privacy expert workshop

June 10th and 11th, 2014

What actually happened:

The Goals for the Event

• Key interest groups and stakeholder experts identify and agree on the issues that need to be addressed in this environment
• Agreement on principles that should guide future activities around opening up data, and an agreement on the definition of the key terms
• Shared ownership among participants to carry work in open data and privacy forward.

Key Outputs:

• A working road map that details:
  • What are the main current and emerging issues
  • What are key policies and opportunities to address them in the future
  • What are the key assets/resources/materials currently available and what needs to be created
  • Who is working on capacity building in this area and where are the gaps
  • A list of topics and papers and parties that will drive the creation of assets/resources/materials.

Day 1

9:00 to 9:30 – Opening Circle: Go round – Name, who you are and one word to describe how you are feeling

9:30 to 10:45 – Interactive Plenary

1st exercise:

• a. Why do you do this work?
• b. A moment you felt most inspired (on post-its)
• c. How do you sustain yourself?

2nd exercise:

• People break into small groups to create controversial statements that are extreme and polarizing

3rd exercise:

• Spectogram – controversial statements are read and people move along a line to show the extent to which they agree whether they agree or disagree.

10:45 to 11:00 – Coffee Break

11:00 to Noon – Agenda hacking (issues, resources, gaps)
Noon to 1:00pm – Lunch

1:00pm to 2:15 – Working Sessions 1:

• Anonymisation and UK Policy – Caspar
• Consent– Christopher
• Project Design – Sanne
• Resources and Tools – Sally

2:15 to 2:30 – Break

2:30 to 3:30 – Interactive project showcase

• John Harrison – PIB
• Anssi Mikola – Wellbookers
• Steve – App for videos on marathon runners (possible implications for Privacy, Personal Data control & Access)
• Christopher – the Responsible Data Forum
• Helen Wallace – DNA Policy Initiative & Genewatch
• Mark Lizar – Open Notice Consent projects
• Mark Elliot – Anonymisers/UKAN

3:30 to 3:45 – Break

3:45 to 5:00 – Working Sessions 2:

• Baking Privacy into ICT4D -Malavika
• Open Data & Anonymisation through Aggregations – Fiona
• How Open Data Contributes to Privacy – Reuben
• Education and Communications – Sally
• Control and Ownership – Javier

5:00 to 5:30 –

• Closing Circle: What should we focus on tomorrow.

Day 2

9:00 to 9:30 – Opening Circle: What was your first experience with a computer

9:30 to 10: 45 –  Break Into Small Groups to discuss:

• what pops into your head when you hear ‘open data’
• what pops into your head when you hear ‘privacy’

Working session 1: Working with open data sets that contain some personal information

10:45 to 11:00 – Break

11:15 to 12:30 – Working Sessions 2:

• Reuse of Data – Javier
• Open Data and Research – Mark Taylor
• Dystopian Visions of Open Data and Privacy – Steve
• Power and Politics – Malavika
• Checklist for Publishing Open Data – Christopher

12:30 to 1:30 – Lunch

1: 30 to 2:30 – Mapping the way forward- Possible outcomes: Participants commit to working groups, activities and map workplans for the future (I will, I would like to, We should..)

2:30 to 3:00pm – closing circle

 

Rough notes

This is the hackpad for the day where there are lots more rough notes!