[Geo4All] Global Data Ethics and Governance Symposium - Submit abstracts by 1 September 2025

[Suchith Anand]

Dear colleagues,
 
I will appreciate your kind help to share this important conference information with your colleagues and academic networks. Details below.
 
The Committee on Data of the International Science Council (ISC) <https://council.science/>, CODATA <https://codata.org/> helps realise ISC’s vision <https://council.science/about-us/> of advancing science as a global public good. CODATA’s vision is of a world in which science is empowered to address universal challenges through the transparent, trustworthy and equitable use of data and information. CODATA’s mission is to connect data and people to advance science and improve our world.
 
The purpose of the Data Ethics Task Group (DETG) is to provide advice to CODATA, including the International Data Policy Committee, on current data ethics issues, in areas such as scientific integrity, protection of personal data, indigenous data sovereignty, computational uses of data including AI and machine learning, and equality, diversity and inclusion.  More details at https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/data-ethics/
 
CODATA Data Ethics Task Group (DETG) is organising the Global Data Ethics and Governance Symposium on 18-19 September 2025 in Durban, South Africa.  
 
We invite individual paper abstracts and panel proposals under following sub-themes:

Data Ethics and Scientific Integrity
Data Privacy
Data Ethics and Structural Inequities in Science
Ethics of Indigenous Data Governance
Ethical Data Stewardship and Data Colonialism
Data Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
Data Sovereignty and Intellectual Property Protection

Please submit abstracts by 1 September 2025 
 
The symposium will also introduce and launch final versions of policy briefs developed by the DETG in response to the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. Details at  https://codata.org/codata-data-ethics-working-group-policy-briefs-available-for-comment-and-feedback/
 
Selected papers from the proceedings of the symposium will be compiled and published in a special issue of an international journal.  
 
More details at https://codata.org/call-for-abstracts-codata-global-data-ethics-governance-symposium-18-19-sept-2025-durban-south-africa/#codata
 
Best wishes
 
Suchith
 
Professor Suchith Anand
Professor of Practice in Science Policy | Senior Adviser to Governments and International Organisations | Scientist | Global Citizen | Science Diplomacy |  SDG Volunteer and Advocate
https://spspa.exeter.ac.uk/people/profile/index.php?username=sa1131
https://ethicaldatainitiative.org <https://ethicaldatainitiative.org/>
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