The International Research Collaborations Working Group of the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop on “Data Matters: Ethics, Data, and International Research Collaboration in a Changing World,” on March 14-16, 2018, at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, DC.
The workshop explored the changing opportunities and risks of data management and use across disciplinary domains to examine advisory principles for consideration when developing international research agreements, in the pursuit of highlighting promising practices for sustaining and enabling international research collaborations at the highest ethical level possible.
This workshop is the third in a series examining relevant aspects of design and execution of international research collaborations. It will build on previous activities that have defined general features of successful international collaborations, starting with a workshop held in 2010 (Examining Core Elements of International Research Collaboration) and a follow-on event in 2013 centered on the role of culture (Culture Matters: International Research Collaboration in a Changing World).
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
INTRODUCTION AND FRAMING THE ISSUES
Barbara Mittleman, Chief Strategy Officer of Waymark Systems
Arturo Pizano, University Relations Program Manager at Siemens Corporate Technology
Susan Sloan, Director of GUIRR at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Jake Metcalf, Research at the Data & Society Research Institute
Ghassem Asrar, Director of the Joint Global Change Research Institute of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Simson Garfinkel, Senior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access at the U.S. Census Bureau
Thursday , March 15, 2018
LEGAN AND TECHNICAL CONCERNS
Ruxandra Draghia, Vice President of Public Health and Scientific Affairs at Merck Global Vaccines
Nick Feamster, Professor of Computer Science at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University
Moderator: Mark Seiden, Director of Information Security at 1010data and Security Advisor at Internet Archive
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CONCERNS
Kristin Tolle, Director of the Data Science Initiative at Microsoft Research Outreach
Brad Fenwick, Senior Vice President of Global Strategic Alliances at Elsevier
Stuart Haber, Chief Scientist at Auditchain
Moderator: Mark Seiden
DOMAIN-SPECIFIC EXAMPLES
Joe Pelton, Emeritus Director of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at the George Washington University
Eric Perakslis, Chief Science Officer at Datavant
Shelley Stall, Director for Data Programs at the American Geophysical Union
Jim Shultz, Founder and Director of the Center for Disaster and Extreme Event Preparedness Center at the University of Miami School of Medicine
Nancy Potok, Chief Statistician of the United States
Moderator: Ruxandra Draghia
SHARING DATA RESPONSIBLY: INTERNATIONAL, INTERDISCIPLINARY, AND INTERSECTORAL ENTANGLEMENTS
Madeleine Murtagh, Professor of Sociology and Bioethics at Newcastle University
Moderator: Susan Sloan
BREAKOUT GROUPS
(A)—Judith Torney-Purta and Arturo Pizano
(B)—Lorna Jean Edmonds and Susan Sloan
(C)—Brad Fenwick and Andreas Rechkemmer
(D)—Tilak Agerwala and Mark Seiden
PRIVACY, SECURITY, EQUITY, AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF DATA SHARING AND STORAGE
Cheikh Mbow, Executive Director of START
Roger-Mark De Souza, President and CEO of Sister Cities
Moderator: Andreas Rechkemmer, Professor and American Humane Endowed Chair of the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver
Friday, March 16, 2018
NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES - INTERNET OF PEOPLE AND THINGS
Sanjay Tripathi, Vice President of Growth Initiatives and Strategic Partnerships at Watson IoT, IBM
Moderator: Tilak Agerwala, IBM Emeritus
BREAKOUT GROUPS
(A)—Judith Torney-Purta and Arturo Pizano
(B)—Lorna Jean Edmonds and Susan Sloan
(C)—Brad Fenwick and Andreas Rechkemmer
(D)—Tilak Agerwala and Mark Seiden
NEW AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
John Markoff, Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and former Senior Technology Writer for The New York Times
Dario Gil, Vice President of AI and IBM Q
Melvin Greer, Chief Data Scientist for the Public Sector, Americas, at Intel Corporation
Moderator: Lorna Jean Edmonds, Vice Provost for Global Affairs and International Studies at Ohio University