Data Bites | Liverpool City Region Residents' Assembly

Emily Rempel, research fellow in public participation and data practices at the University of Liverpool, talked about the recent Residents’ Assembly organised by Liverpool’s Civic Data Cooperative. This brought nearly 60 residents together to discuss the question, ‘what does trustworthy and beneficial data and AI innovation look like for the Liverpool City Region?’

Residents decided on 11 principles to guide how data was used, which will be published shortly. While they were concerned about privacy, security, trust and governance, their top principle was that data should be used to benefit the public.

Emily Rempel and Gavin Freeguard discuss next to a screen showing 9 seconds left on a timer

Emily Rempel delivering her data bites presentation next to a time showing a countdown with 6'48'' left

Data for communities

Sam from Open Data Manchester explained how involving citizens in collecting and using data can empower communities.

Laura Gilbert delivers her data bites presentation

Data and AI in the public sector

Laura Gilbert talked about setting up the government’s Incubator for AI (i.AI), and how tools like Caddy can actually make government and other organisations more human and bring them closer to people.

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.

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

UK Statistics Assembly

Nicola Fulton talked about the forthcoming UK Statistics Assembly, bringing together users and producers of data and statistics to discuss (and advise on) priorities, gaps and user needs of the UK statistics system.