Language: English (mozilla)
Our workshop is about making the exploration of data governance for a community participatory, inclusive, accessible, and fun! Rather than beginning with abstract questions of governance structures, we propose to flip the whole process on its head. The workshop will invite as diverse a spectrum of audience members as possible to participate in a ground-up series of multimedia exercises. The exercises will be based loosely on Open North’s participation-oriented framework for data governance development, and designed to engage the participants in playfully thinking through and building a data governance framework for themselves as an imaginary community. The goals of this workshop are to create a maximally inclusive and accessible space in which participants can learn hands on about the importance of data governance that encodes the same Mozfest values, and experientially explore the process of developing such a framework.
The multimedia group exercises will be facilitated by Open North to support the exploration of our values-driven approach to data governance (freely available on our learning platform), and designed to enable accessible and modular exploration. Different formats will be accessible and encourage different modes of playful engagement. Arranged sequentially, the exercises involve a role-play “discovering” each other as “stakeholders;” a brain-storming session with a jamboard to map types of data in the “community;” a participatory word cloud to identify and explore the values they wish to encode in data governance; and a miro board to assemble governance roles or tools across a data lifecycle.
In addition to a valuable learning experience for participants and observers, this workshop will also support our work to develop deeply inclusive and accessible tools to aid digital transformation for the common good, tools which we release publicly on our website and utilize in our pro bono services.
Drawing on solid scientific foundations (MSc) in both Engineering sciences and Science and Technology Studies, Lauriane Gorce is dedicated to exploring how innovations (what’s new) can bring true progress to human beings and to our planet (what’s better). She has worked in Europe, in Asia and in Northern America, opening one “black box” after another, in diverse sectors (applied physics and image processing; ai fairness evaluation; innovation public policies and sustainable development; circular economy and public infrastructure; technological start-ups and business strategy; risk management and interculturalism). Her strength is to connect: exact sciences with human sciences, the big picture with attention to details, abstract concepts with concrete applications. At Open North, she has brought her enthusiasm to data governance and data trusts projects, demonstrating her ability to learn fast, manage an ambitious program, dive deep into content and popularize complex concepts.
Thomas is the Coordinator for Insight and Knowledge Development at Open North. His work involves developing and aligning research projects, conducting cross-project analysis to identify insights and trends, and building innovative knowledge sharing and translation products for in-house and external capacity building and learning.
Thomas received his PhD in sociology from Queen’s University. His doctoral research was on the societal impacts of emerging digital technologies, particularly with regards to digital surveillance and policing. He received a Master’s Degree in philosophy and political science from the University of Zurich with a thesis on the geopolitical dimensions of corporate and national security surveillance.
He is passionate about rethinking smart city strategies to build alternative political and economic systems that empower communities and embed equity and sustainability from the start.
Christian leads Open North's Global Programs. At Open North, Christian is particularly interested in the challenges and opportunities technology and data pose for effective, inclusive and democratic governance. Recent experiences include public participation and data governance in Ukraine, democracy research and capacity building in Myanmar and open data initiatives across Latin America. Born and raised in Colombia, Christian speaks Spanish, French and English.