Public Good – The Data Ethics Repository

Ethical Principles

May 4, 2023 by lnbressa

Author: N/A; Publisher: U.K. Statistics Authority; Publication Year: 2020. The following visual provides a resource that outlines data ethics into 6 different categories. These categories are public good, data security, methods, legal compliance, public views/engagement, and transparency. A key takeaway from this resource is public good being at the top of the visual which emphasizes the fact that public good is crucial to…

The Ethics of Big Data as a Public Good: Which Public? Whose Good?

April 28, 2023 by lnbressa

Author: Linnet Taylor; Publisher: The Royal Society; Publication Year: 2016. The following article describes how international development and humanitarian organizations are increasingly calling for digital data to be treated as a public good because of its value in supplementing scarce national statistics and informing interventions, including in emergencies. In response to this claim, a ‘responsible data’ movement has evolved to…