[Geo4All] Shaping the Future of Data Ethics: EDI Town Hall 2025

[Suchith Anand]

Dear colleagues,

On the 31st of March 2025, EDI affiliates, data ethics experts from around the world, as well as some of the EDI’s key stakeholders gathered at the TUM Think Tank <https://tumthinktank.de/de/startseite> in Munich for the EDI Townhall. The summary from the EDI multi-stakeholder town hall meeting titled “Shaping the Future of Data Ethics” is at https://ethicaldatainitiative.org/2025/05/02/shaping-the-future-of-data-ethics-edi-town-hall-2025/

During the EDI Townhall meeting in Munich on 31 March 2025,  we remembered the contributions of Professor Fraser Taylor (1937-2025)  https://gcrc.carleton.ca/index.html   to the data ethics community. Prof. Taylor was a key contributor to the GEO Data Ethics SG and was one of the key initiators of the International Science Council CODATA Data Ethics WG and contributed immensely to our community.  At the EDI Townhall 2025 meeting, an important and sentimental minute of silence was called for in grace of remembering the late and great Professor Fraser Taylor’s contributions to the Data Ethics community. This touching moment offered a reminder to remember those who came before, and the tireless dedication it takes to keep conversations of ethics at the forefront of policy and academic discussions. 

Presentations and the programme for the EDI townhall meeting are available on zenodo at https://zenodo.org/records/15174049

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://experts.exeter.ac.uk/43268-suchith-anand
https://ethicaldatainitiative.org <https://ethicaldatainitiative.org/>

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