Hello Peter, Could you give us more details about your new role as a "data broker?" What are the expectations of your manager in this position? Are you being asked to look for patterns in the data to inform policy implementation? If so, then will you also be tasked to think about how these statistical data integrate/could be informed by more qualitative data? Let me know if these sorts of reports<http://www.emc.com/resource-library/resource-library.esp?source=link&findResourceBy=Solutions&searchKey=&listName=Solutions&grpName=Business%20Need&name=Backup,%20Recovery,%20and%20Archiving> overlap with your new position/responsibilities. Kind regards, Marc --------------------- Marc Hebert, Ph.D. UX/Ethnographic Researcher 2013 Code for America Fellow Collaborating with the City & County of San Francisco On May 4, 2013, at 3:00 PM, air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org wrote:

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I am being asked to become a "Data Broker" in government. This seems an old mid 1990's term yet I see nothing in the list archive around this concept or role. While I know service behaviour I am looking to read something in the nature of a business book or deeper study with a social science or technical foundation that can help me move along to get into this role. The boss asking this is also a former Internet Studies scholar so he may be lifting this term "Data Broker" from the 1990's. I work in a national statistics agency where sometimes I write about internet use statistics but this is only a sometime job that I am allowed because I have read the work of many A o IR scholars. My real in demand skills are statistical programming not my knowledge of the Internet.

So do you have any references to studies talking about "Data Brokers"?

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