Rebalancing power dynamics: how data institutions can help empower people and communities

Open Data Institute Podcasts

This podcast, introduced by Jared Keller of the ODI, explores two questions: why is it important for organisations to empower people to play a more active role in deciding what happens to their data? And second, which system of decision making is best - individual, collective or delegated? Three guests, Julian Tait from Open Data Manchester, Anouk Ruhaak from Mozilla Foundation and Emmett Townsend from Inrupt talk about their own organisations and the challenges and benefits of each approach, before opening out a wider discussion around issues of personal consent, legislation and making such initiatives successful and sustainable. If you are interested in discussing the different types of data institutions and issues of consent around data institutions please get in touch with the team.