Social Data for Public Empowerment in the USA

In this webinar, Sarah Williams from MIT will offer insights from her 2020 book Data Action: Using Data for Public Good. Big data can be used for good—such as tracking disease—and for bad—implementing surveillance and control. Williams will provide a guide for working with data in more ethical and responsible ways and will also outline a method that emphasises collaboration among data scientists, policy experts, data designers, and the public.