<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I just would like to inform you that the International Organisation Committee for the Data for Policy 2020 Conference is now inviting participants in the conference, which will take place virtually on September 15-17, 2020.<br><br>There are many sessions that explore the implications of data policy for addressing societal challenges, including Special Tracks on "Harnessing Data and Science to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals" and "Data Governance for Innovation for Sustainable Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges in Public Policy and Institutional Design," in which I will be the chair.<br><br>Please see the information below for further details.<br><br>Thank you very much.<br><br>Best regards,<br>YARIME Masaru<br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>*********************************************************************************************************************************<br>YARIME Masaru, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor, Division of Public Policy (PPOL), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)<br></div><div>Office: Room 4611 (Lift 31/32), PPOL, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong<br>Phone: +852-3469-2283; E-mail: <a href="mailto:yarime@ust.hk" target="_blank">yarime@ust.hk</a>; Web: <a href="https://ppol.ust.hk/ppl/faculty/prof_masaru_yarime" target="_blank">https://ppol.ust.hk/ppl/faculty/prof_masaru_yarime</a>; <a href="http://yarime.net/" target="_blank">http://yarime.net/</a></div><div><div>Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering & Public Policy, University College London</div><div>Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo</div>**********************************************************************************************************************************</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Data for Policy 2020</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:team@dataforpolicy.org" target="_blank">team@dataforpolicy.org</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 7:05 PM<br>Subject: Registration Reminder for Data for Policy 2020<br>To:  <<a href="mailto:yarimemasa@gmail.com" target="_blank">yarimemasa@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>

    
        
        
        
        
        
        

    
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<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:16px">Data for Policy 2020 5th International Conference 15-17th September 2020 | Online</span><span style="font-size:14px"> </span><span style="font-size:12px">     </span><br>
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<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">Registration deadline extended: <strong>Friday, 4th September 2020</strong> </span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">Registration is closing soon for the Data for Policy 5th International Conference  – book now to secure a place! <a href="http://dataforpolicy.org/registration/" target="_blank">http://dataforpolicy.org/registration/</a> </span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">Moving to an online format for the first time, this year’s conference continues the multi-disciplinary, cross-sectoral, global conversation on the theories, applications and implications of data science innovation in governance and the public sector. The conference provides an unmissable opportunity for networking as leading international scholars, policy makers, international institutions and private sector organisations from across the world are participating. Data for Policy 2020 truly is a one of a kind, unmissable event. </span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Featured participants include: </strong></span></p>

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        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Jeffrey Schlagenhauf</strong>, Deputy Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)  </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Sir Peter Gluckmann</strong>, Former Chief Scientific Advisor, New Zealand </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Zuena Aziz</strong>, Chief Co-ordinator for Sustainable Development Goals Affairs in the Prime Minister's Office, Bangladesh  </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Samia Melhem</strong>, Global Lead on Digital Capabilities, Digital Development Practice, World Bank  </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Masaru Yarime</strong>, Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong; UCL STEaPP, UK; and The University of Tokyo, Japan.  </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Torbjörn  Fredriksson</strong>, Head of ICT Analysis Section of the Division on Technology and Logistics, UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)  </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Barbara Ubaldi, </strong>Head of Reform of the Public Sector Division, OECD </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Stefaan Verhulst, </strong>Co-Founder of the Government Laboratory (GovLab), New York University </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Christoph  Lütge, </strong>Professor,<strong> </strong>Institute of Ethics and AI, ITM, Munich </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Helen Margetts</strong>, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford; The Alan Turing Institute </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>C. Leigh Anderson</strong>, Marc Lindenberg Professor for Humanitarian Action, International Development, and Global Citizenship, University of Washington </span></li>
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        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Professor David Hand</strong>, Imperial College </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Professor Alessandro Vespignani</strong>, Northeastern University </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Professor Yi Zeng</strong>, Beijing Academy </span></li>
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<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Special sessions include: </strong></span></p>

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        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>"Data Governance in the Public Interest" </strong>– comprising individual presentations and a Special Panel  <strong>“Brave New Worlds? Ethics in Theory and Practice in Public Data Provision”</strong> – organised by LSE and the Ada Lovelace Institute </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>"Data, analytics and digital transformation in the private sector"</strong> – a panel discussion organised by the UCL School of Management </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>"‘For good measure’: The challenges of quantifying complex problems for policymaking"</strong> – individual presentations and a special session on “The co-production of value from data by users and producers” – organised by Leiden University </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>"Data Quality and Development Policy"</strong> - individual presentations – organised by the University of Washington </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>"Data Governance for Innovation for Sustainable Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges in Public Policy and Institutional Design"</strong> – two sessions of individual presentations – organised by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>"Opportunities and Challenges for Data-Driven Research in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis"</strong> – presentations and discussion - organised by the Alan Turing Institute </span></li>
        <li><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>"Data technologies and governance frameworks used for gathering, storing, managing, processing, analyzing and sharing data in the public administrations"</strong> – individual presentations – organised by Lisbon Council and the GovLab, NYU </span></li>
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<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Organisations represented include: </strong></span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">Aapti Institute, India | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | Monash University, Australia | The Center for Economic Research and Teaching, Mexico | Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, UK | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Information and Training Outreach Centre for Africa | International Digital Accountability Council, USA | Qatar Computing Research Institute | Simon Fraser University, Canada | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | United Nations University Institute in Macau | University College Dublin | Unicamp, Brazil | The Alan Turing Institute, UK | University of Oxford | University of the Aegean | University of Tokyo | World Wide Web Foundation, Indonesia | UK Statistics Authority | Ministry of Justice, UK | Sharif Governance Think Tank, Iran | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany | Leiden University, Netherlands | Lapin Limited, Jersey | KIMEP University, Kazakhstan | National Institute for Economic and Social Research, UK | Ada Lovelace Institute, UK | Future of Privacy Forum, USA | University of Cambridge | European Commission | Office for National Statistics, UK | Quinten, France </span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">Data for Policy is committed to increasing diversity in its delegate community and we are therefore delighted to offer  <strong>Data for Policy Ambassador  scholarships</strong> to suitable candidates. We particularly welcome applications from groups which are currently underrepresented in our community, in particular those from developing nations, who will extend our geographic diversity. For further details, and how to apply, please visit our website: <a href="https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009ec5c754&id=cf2074ed03&e=f6c656789c" style="color:#007c89;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Data for Policy Ambassador scholarships</a> - <strong>deadline for application is 21st August</strong></span></p>

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<strong>Reflections from past conferences:</strong> </span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">“Data for Policy provides a unique opportunity to have a dialogue across many disciplinary boundaries, it’s a forum in which we can ask questions and move collectively towards solutions, we can share methods. I think it’s invaluable.” </span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">Professor Anthony Finkelstein, Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security to the UK Government – Data for Policy 2016 </span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">“This is the beginning of the dialogue that really needs to happen between policy makers and data scientists, so that they don’t find themselves warring with each other, but instead try to cooperate and move together to protect both the subjects of Big Data analysis and the ability to use this data to better inform policy and government.” </span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">Professor Jim Waldo, Chief Technology Officer, Harvard University – Data for Policy 2016 </span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">“It’s fantastic to come here and take the temperature of what’s going on in this field and hopefully out of this we can begin to look ahead and see where the new connections are going to be made between ideas and data science.” </span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">David Mair, Head of Unit at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission –  Data for Policy 2016 </span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">“It is the first time I have had the opportunity to take part in this type of discussion – getting a sense of where political thinking is and where academic thinking is. Forums like this can provide the thought leadership that is necessary in this area.” </span></p>

<p style="margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#202020;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:150%;text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px">John Sheridan, Head of Legislation Services, UK National Archives – Data for Policy 2015 </span></p>

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