Data Bites | Data and AI Federation

Duncan Brown, head of software engineering at the Incubator for AI (i.AI), explored what a federated approach to data sharing, access and use might look like, drawing inspiration from Richard Pope’s Platformland, (previous speaker) Ben Goldacre’s National Data Library blueprint, and elsewhere.

See Duncan’s slides.

Duncan Brown shows a graph on screen with the results of a survey showing that a majority of people feel that AI will impact them either negatively or neutrally.

Chris Pointon delivering his data bites presentation

Scheme scheming

Chris Pointon talked about smart data schemes, which offer citizens and businesses the ability to share their data securely and under their control. If designed well, as he argues, this can benefit the public.

Alex Blandford introduces his presentation in front of a screen that reads "warning: this work is anthropological in nature"

You can’t API your way out of politics

Alex Blandford shows his qualitative research into civic technologists, painting them as “radicalised nerds” trying to fix broken systems.

Council Climate Action Scorecards

Isaac Beevor, and Alex Parsons talked about their work on measuring UK local authority climate action through their bi-annual Council Climate Action Scorecards.

Amanda Smith delivering her presentation

Data Service Standards

Amanda Smith, director at Public Digital, on Data Service Standards: showing what good looks like for designing, developing and implementing high-quality data and analytics services.