Hello, I have been helping US federal agencies sort public comments for 22 years. We built tools for redaction, FOIA, and related tasks. Some may be relevant. For 12 years academics have used these tools for public data analysis, including survey datasets with large volumes of unstructured text data, email e-discovery, and Twitter analytics. Plus my grandparents were Scottish immigrants to Canada so we should talk! Stu On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 6:46 AM Angela Daly via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am the chair of a new independent expert group advising the Scottish Government on whether and how the private sector can access public sector (personal) datasets in Scotland. We are particularly interested in whether and how this can be done in ways which lead to genuine public benefit and engender public trust. Personally I'm also interested in public participatory approaches to this issue.
The first meeting of the group was at the end of March and there will be material online soon about the group's make-up and what we discussed in the first meeting. For now, here's an official tweet: https://twitter.com/scotgoveconomy/status/1509217303887503360
Anyway, I wanted to let you all know about this and that I am open to hearing any views, and in particular, receiving any evidence e.g. based on your research on this topic, at any point over the IEG's lifetime. I hope this can help you to produce 'impact' from your work and actually influence what is happening here in Scotland. If you want to talk more, please email me!
There are a few academics involved and some ex/part time academics within the Scottish Government - to that end we have a special track as part of Data for Policy 2022 (hybrid conference) on the IEG's theme - I would invite any of you researching on this topic to submit something and circulate to your networks:
https://dataforpolicy.org/special-track-3-how-public-is-the-personal-for-sco...
Thanks, Angela
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