A future of more equitable connected data systems with self-sovereignty and consent
Room B | Wed 21 Jan 1:30 p.m.–2:15 p.m.
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Jess is a data scientist and software engineer, with a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics from ANU, and over 15 years’ post PhD experience in applied data science in university, government, defence, and for purpose sectors.
She brings skills across data analytics, privacy first software engineering, and engagement to the development of impactful data science software for public good. After over a decade working in government, she returned to ANU in 2019 as Chief Operating Officer of the Software Innovation Institute to translate tech and teach the practice of open source software engineering. She is currently Honorary Senior Fellow in the Software Innovation Institute where her research interests are in mechanisms for consented data sharing, and engineering linked data systems for self-sovereignty and collaboration for a better society. She is a member of the W3C Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls Community Group, Australian Government Linked Data Working Group, the Australian Institute of Physics, and formerly served on the board of the YWCA of Canberra. When not contributing to the development of open source for personal control of data, she enjoys cycling, reading, and tutoring for the Canberra Girls Programming Network.
Jess is a data scientist and software engineer, with a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics from ANU, and over 15 years’ post PhD experience in applied data science in university, government, defence, and for purpose sectors. She brings skills across data analytics, privacy first software engineering, and engagement to the development of impactful data science software for public good. After over a decade working in government, she returned to ANU in 2019 as Chief Operating Officer of the Software Innovation Institute to translate tech and teach the practice of open source software engineering. She is currently Honorary Senior Fellow in the Software Innovation Institute where her research interests are in mechanisms for consented data sharing, and engineering linked data systems for self-sovereignty and collaboration for a better society. She is a member of the W3C Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls Community Group, Australian Government Linked Data Working Group, the Australian Institute of Physics, and formerly served on the board of the YWCA of Canberra. When not contributing to the development of open source for personal control of data, she enjoys cycling, reading, and tutoring for the Canberra Girls Programming Network.
Abstract
Every day it is estimated that over 402 million terabytes of data is shared between data systems, driven largely by the growth of business-to-consumer digital platform based applications storing personal data, such as social media and AI-enhanced vehicles. The Social Linked Data (Solid) specification is emerging as the required paradigm shift to restore data ownership, access and control to individuals and communities. Apps built on person centred data stored on Solid servers, effectively separate the storage and ownership of data from that of the software applications. This aids in the development of alternative business models to the existing prevaling business model where customers give their data to large digital platform based businesses whose market advantage is derived from network effects of dominating a market by controlling customer's data access and data portability.
Solid is a specification for the authentication and authorization to access person or entity centred data stored in data vaults (also called personal online datastores). Using Solid-based apps, people can make fine grained dynamic consents to share data between people and applications. This provides people with transparency over who has data access, enabling audit logs of prior permitted data access, and further development to share data with restrictions to improve IP and privacy protection. I will discuss research towards a future of expressive consents in data sharing between data vaults and applications, and the potential appliications to protect privacy and data rights in legislation, align with First Nations data sovereignty principles, and support collaboration in nature repair.
Every day it is estimated that over 402 million terabytes of data is shared between data systems, driven largely by the growth of business-to-consumer digital platform based applications storing personal data, such as social media and AI-enhanced vehicles. The Social Linked Data (Solid) specification is emerging as the required paradigm shift to restore data ownership, access and control to individuals and communities. Apps built on person centred data stored on Solid servers, effectively separate the storage and ownership of data from that of the software applications. This aids in the development of alternative business models to the existing prevaling business model where customers give their data to large digital platform based businesses whose market advantage is derived from network effects of dominating a market by controlling customer's data access and data portability.
Solid is a specification for the authentication and authorization to access person or entity centred data stored in data vaults (also called personal online datastores). Using Solid-based apps, people can make fine grained dynamic consents to share data between people and applications. This provides people with transparency over who has data access, enabling audit logs of prior permitted data access, and further development to share data with restrictions to improve IP and privacy protection. I will discuss research towards a future of expressive consents in data sharing between data vaults and applications, and the potential appliications to protect privacy and data rights in legislation, align with First Nations data sovereignty principles, and support collaboration in nature repair.