More Info & RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Information-Innovation-UTS/events/278253822/ Public sector organisations are increasingly encouraged to share data with other state institution or private businesses and to make datasets available to the public. The drive to data sharing is supposed to improve service delivery and help boost an innovative digital economy. But what does this mean in practice for public servants and citizens? Three researchers will discuss their research into this topic: - What does "open" actually mean across different government agencies? - How is open data being shared across platforms like Wikidata? - How does data sharing work between different instititions in fields like health? Heather Ford as an Associate Professor at the School of Communication at UTS where she is Head of Discipline for Digital and Social Media. She has a background as an activist for internet rights and free and open source software and content movement. The co-founder of Creative Commons South Africa and former Executive Director of iCommons, she has also worked as a Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, a Google Policy Fellow for the Electronic Frontier Initiative, a Fellow for the Software Sustainability Institute in the UK and a University Academic Fellow in Digital Methods at Leeds University. Her current research is focused on the implications of datafication and automation for the representation of knowledge in global contexts. Suneel Jethani is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney. His research centres on embodied technology, datafication and issues of technology governance and design. Suneel has published in International Communication Gazette, Communication, Politics and Culture, M/C Journal and in Embodied Computing (2020) MIT Press. Suneel has forthcoming books on self-tracking technology (Emerald, 2021) and open data (Palgrave, 2021). Tsvetelina Hristova is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, for the project The Geopolitics of Automation. Her research explores the social and political role of data infrastructures: standards, software systems, platforms and digital tools. Nicholas Car is internationally recognised as a thought leader and expert in Data Architecture, Data Systems Design, Linked Data and Semantic technologies. He was the design lead for nationally significant and innovative Linked Data and Semantic Web projects including the Location Index and the Longitudinal Spine of Government Functions. He is active as a standards editor in the W3C’s Dataset Exchange Working Group and the Open Geospatial Consortium’s GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group, a co-chair of the Australian Government Linked Data Working Group, and a member of the ISO’s TC 211: Technical Committee for the geographic standards information. UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.