PLSC-Europe 2018 Call for Papers
*With the usual apology for cross-posting* PLSC-EUROPE 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS PLSC-Europe 2018 will be held in Brussels on Saturday 27 January 2018, right after CPDP2018 (http://www.cpdpconferences.org). CPDP - Computers, Privacy & Data Protection conference - is an annual gathering of academics, lawyers, practitioners, policy-makers, industry, and civil society from all over the world. Its 11th edition, "The Internet of Bodies", will take place from Wednesday 24 January to Friday 26 January 2018. PLSC-Europe will follow on Saturday 27 January 2018. Based on the popular Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) event in the United States, PLSC-Europe is dedicated to bringing together privacy law scholars, practitioners, and privacy scholars from other disciplines from across Europe and beyond to discuss current issues. PLSC-Europe aims at fostering greater connections between academia and practice (industry, legal, advocacy, and government), and at bringing together law scholars with academics and professionals from other disciplines (e.g. economics, philosophy, political science, computer science). The first PLSC-Europe was held in October 2015 in conjunction with the Amsterdam Privacy Conference, and the second one in May 2017, in conjunction with TILTing Perspectives 2017. From 2017 onwards, PLSC-Europe became a regular event co-organized by the University of Amsterdam (IvIR), Tilburg University (TILT), and the Free University Brussels (LSTS/Privacy Salon), alternating between Amsterdam, Tilburg, and Brussels. The third edition of PLSC-Europe will be held on 27 January 2018 in Brussels. PLSC is a paper workshop. Papers are not available, and proceedings will not be released. The papers discussed are works in progress, and so will not be publicly released, nor publicized: the ideas presented by the authors are often still developing, and need further incubation before being finalised. In a PLSC paper workshop, a "commenter" leads a discussion among participants on an author's paper. Authors are encouraged to listen to the discussion, rather than steer it or participate actively to it. There are no panels or keynotes at PLSC: the idea is to help the author by giving feedback and advice on the paper. Workshops are informal and friendly in nature. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – PLSC-EUROPE 2018 We welcome the submission of abstracts on both pure and multidisciplinary legal scholarship on privacy and data protection. Please submit your abstract through the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=plsceurope2018 If your abstract gets accepted for the paper workshop, you will be required to deliver a full draft before the conference, to allow participants to read the paper in advance. Key Dates * Abstract submission: 29 September 2017 * Abstract acceptance: 27 October 2017 * Workshop draft due: 22 December 2017 * Workshop: 27 January 2018 PLSC-Europe 2018 is jointly organised by Research Group on Law, Science, Technology and Society (LSTS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Privacy Salon. -- Imge Ozcan Doctoral Researcher Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Join us for the next edition of the CPDP conference on 24 - 26 January 2018 in Brussels: http://www.cpdpconferences.org/ [1] Links: ------ [1] http://www.cpdpconferences.org/
Hi All, I've been following this list since early 2017, so not sure if this has been asked before...but...do you know of any examples of public involvement/engagement in government data science processes or data science policy-making? Ideally, it would be good to have examples that are (a) not single events such as workshops and (b) that do not require the participants to be highly technically literate. I've done quite a bit of google and academic database searching but have only come across, maybe, five or six examples. Any links you have would be much appreciated! Thanks! Best, Emily Emily S. Rempel Department of Psychology University of Bath
Emily, A specific and current case that might fit under data science is the surprising imminent decision by the US Department of the Interior on US National Monuments: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/8/24/16199048/interior-depar... This case fits more broadly under the class of interactions known as "notice and comment" in regulatory rulemaking. Dr. Cornelius Kerwin wrote that the administrative rulemaking process is one of the most democratic features of the American political system. Though it is not always the case that public voice carries the day, it remains true that substantive comments submitted on proposed rule must be directly addressed under the law. You may be able to locate specific regulatory actions with data science at the heart, or at least clear implications, for example, at the EPA. Perhaps have a look at Regulations.Gov to identify current cases that fit your criteria. ~Stu On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Emily Rempel <E.S.Rempel@bath.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi All,
I've been following this list since early 2017, so not sure if this has been asked before...but...do you know of any examples of public involvement/engagement in government data science processes or data science policy-making? Ideally, it would be good to have examples that are (a) not single events such as workshops and (b) that do not require the participants to be highly technically literate.
I've done quite a bit of google and academic database searching but have only come across, maybe, five or six examples. Any links you have would be much appreciated! Thanks!
Best,
Emily Emily S. Rempel Department of Psychology University of Bath
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This suggestion may not be precisely on target with your question insofar as I'm extending it from "data science" to "data driven" policy considerations. In considering the impact of behavioral economic (BE) "nudges" on social policy, both the British Parliament and the US government surveyed a wide range of data or evidence driven factors in evaluating these effects. I'm aware that I should define what BE "nudges" are, but an extended discussion on this topic is, in my opinion, beyond the scope of what this forum allows. In addition and despite the lopsided focus of this response, BE is not the only topic which is data driven and contains wide social policy implications. There are many others. Given that, here are a few links to articles that explicitly discuss "nudges" and how they have been deployed in enabling social policy engineering: *The Original Book on Nudges:* Thaler and Sunstein, *Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness*, 2009 *British Parliament House of Lords study of "nudges":* http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/sci... *US Government studies of "nudges":* http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6289/1042?utm_medium=social&utm_so... *Other articles on "nudges" and social policy:* *Should Governments Nudge Us to Make Good Choices?* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/should-governments-nudge-us-to-ma... *Policy and Choice: Public Finance Through the Lens of Behavioral Economics* https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/policyandchoice_book.pd... *Applying the Lessons of Behavioral Economics to Improve the Federal Student Loan Programs* https://www.luminafoundation.org/files/publications/ideas_summit/Applying_th... *The Nudge Is Not Enough! The Love Story Between Behavioral Science and Practical Applications* https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/the-nudge-is-not-enough-the-love-story-b... *Nudges Do Not Undermine Human Agency* https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2594758 *Nudged to the Produce Aisle by a Look in the Mirror* http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/dining/wooing-us-down-the-produce-aisle.ht... Hope this helps, Thomas Ball On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Emily Rempel <E.S.Rempel@bath.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi All,
I've been following this list since early 2017, so not sure if this has been asked before...but...do you know of any examples of public involvement/engagement in government data science processes or data science policy-making? Ideally, it would be good to have examples that are (a) not single events such as workshops and (b) that do not require the participants to be highly technically literate.
I've done quite a bit of google and academic database searching but have only come across, maybe, five or six examples. Any links you have would be much appreciated! Thanks!
Best,
Emily Emily S. Rempel Department of Psychology University of Bath
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Beta NYC is involved in that kind of thing, and Civic Hall (in NYC) is where some of that happens (like, the Manhattan Borough President comes by from time to time). https://beta.nyc/ https://civichall.org/ HTH -Nat
On Aug 25, 2017, at 7:41 AM, Emily Rempel <E.S.Rempel@bath.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi All,
I've been following this list since early 2017, so not sure if this has been asked before...but...do you know of any examples of public involvement/engagement in government data science processes or data science policy-making? Ideally, it would be good to have examples that are (a) not single events such as workshops and (b) that do not require the participants to be highly technically literate.
I've done quite a bit of google and academic database searching but have only come across, maybe, five or six examples. Any links you have would be much appreciated! Thanks!
Best,
Emily Emily S. Rempel Department of Psychology University of Bath
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Shulman, Stu -
Thomas Ball