<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Dear colleagues,</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">On behalf of the International Science Council CODATA Data Ethics Task Group (DETG), I am pleased to share this Call for Abstracts for the Global Data Ethics and Governance Symposium on 18-19 September, 2025 in Durban, South Africa. </p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">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 <a href="https://codata.org/codata-data-ethics-working-group-policy-briefs-available-for-comment-and-feedback/">https://codata.org/codata-data-ethics-working-group-policy-briefs-available-for-comment-and-feedback/</a></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Submit abstracts for the symposium by <b>1 September 2025</b>. Please see attached call for abstracts for more details.</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Selected papers from the proceedings of the symposium will be compiled and published in a special issue of an international journal. </p><p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Looking forward to your participation in the symposium.</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Best wishes</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Suchith</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 15px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Professor Suchith Anand</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">Professor of Practice in Science Policy | Senior Adviser to Governments and International Organisations | Scientist | Global Citizen | Science Diplomacy | SDG Volunteer and Advocate</p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/43268-suchith-anand">https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/43268-suchith-anand</a></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://ethicaldatainitiative.org/">https://ethicaldatainitiative.org</a></span></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Johannes John-Langba <JohnLangbaJ@ukzn.ac.za><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>[tg-dataethics] CODATA Global Data Ethics & Governance Symposium [ 18-19 Sept 2025, Durban, South Africa] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12 August 2025 at 19:30:38 BST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">tg-dataethics <tg-dataethics@lists.codata.org><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><br><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">Dear Colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">I trust this finds you all well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div id="mail-editor-reference-message-container"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">Please find below the announcement and attached CALL FOR ABSTRACTS document for the Global Data Ethics and Governance Symposium being organised by the Data Ethics Task Group (DETG) of CODATA on 18-19 September, 2025 in Durban, SOUTH AFRICA.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">Grateful if you could circulate this announcement widely among your networks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">Thank you all for your support and contributions.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">Kind regards<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">-----------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">Prof Johannes John-Langba ( DETG Co-Chair)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">Dr Sukhdeep Kaur ( DETG Secretary)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">On behalf of the CODATA Global Data Ethics & Governance Symposium Organising Committee<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CALL FOR ABSTRACTS</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240);"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240);">GLOBAL DATA ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE SYMPOSIUM<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240);">Hybrid (In-person & Virtual)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">18-19 SEPTEMBER 2025<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; 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font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240);">THEME:</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">BUILDING TRUST, PROTECTION, AND ETHICS IN GLOBAL DATA: TOWARDS IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CAPE TOWN GLOBAL ACTION PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; background: white;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trust in the integrity of science is dependent on ethical creation, use, and sharing of data</span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In response to this critical reality, the Committee on Data (CODATA) of the International Science Council (ISC) established a Working Group in 2021, now Data Ethics Task Group (DETG) committed to steering technology toward benevolence and ensuring its enduring benefits to humanity. The DETG is a global multi-disciplinary data ethics stakeholder with the aim of raising awareness about contemporary data ethics issues. The DETG works towards promoting the UNESCO recommendations on open science sets out the foundations for an international standard for open science, by defining shared values and guiding principles. It also seeks to identify "a set of actions conducive to a fair and equitable operationalization of open science for all at the individual, institutional, national, regional and international levels". The DETG promotes the notion that Individual, family and community data rights such as for privacy and rights of representation must be respected throughout the research process; and that data distribution must ensure equal access for researchers in every context, including low resourced contexts and recognizing the importance of fostering equitable partnerships, diversity and inclusion among researchers for achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); in particular SDG 16 and SDG 17. The increasing use of computational techniques including Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, by academic researchers demand consideration of data ethics issues that this raises, especially around bias and privacy.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 240);">Global Data Ethics and Governance Symposium</span></b><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 240);"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>will convene a diverse, international group of scholars from across disciplines with interest in data ethics to sensitize and raise awareness about ethical issues among early career and emerging researchers from low and middle-income countries related to building trust, protection and ethics in global data. 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 and invite wider contributions and engagement around the importance of safeguarding data ethics at the global level. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240);">Sub-themes:</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 240);"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We invite individual paper abstracts and panel proposals under following sub-themes:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><ol start="1" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm -15pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Data Ethics and Scientific Integrity</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm -15pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Data Privacy</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm -15pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Data Ethics and Structural Inequities in Science</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm -15pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Ethics of Indigenous Data Governance</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">5. Ethical Data Stewardship and Data Colonialism</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"><b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><ol start="6" type="1" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm -15pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Data Ethics and Artificial Intelligence</span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm -15pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Data Sovereignty and Intellectual Property Protection</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: windowtext;">.</span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ol><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 21pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">REGISTRATION</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click the following link<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);"> </span></b></span><a href="https://forms.office.com/r/feuvsKNZF3" title="https://forms.office.com/r/feuvsKNZF3" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">https://forms.office.com/r/feuvsKNZF3</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to register to participate in-person or virtually. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See attached call for abstracts for more details<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deadline to register:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Monday 15 September 2025.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Participation is FREE:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In-person participation spaces are however limited.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);">ABSTRACT AND PANEL PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We invite <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>abstracts</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>panel proposals</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for the following submission types:<o:p></o:p></span></div><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abstracts of not more than 300 words and a bio-sketch of the authors (50 word limit).<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fully constituted panel proposals ( of not more than 5 panellists) should describe the topic and relationship between papers in no more than 500 words. Additionally, include 300-word abstracts for each paper on the panel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Microsoft YaHei UI", sans-serif; color: green;">We particularly welcome contributions from Junior/Emerging Researchers and Practitioners from Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) including data regulators, policy institutions, and civil society organizations.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click the following link<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(192, 0, 0);"> </span></b><a href="https://forms.office.com/r/j3Quk24unc" title="https://forms.office.com/r/j3Quk24unc" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">https://forms.office.com/r/j3Quk24unc</span></b></a><span style=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to submit abstracts and/or panel proposals.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deadline to submit abstracts:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="color: red;">1 September 2025</span></b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See attached call for abstracts document for more details.</span><span style=""><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 55, 94);">------</span></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">Prof. Johannes John-Langba, PhD., MPH., MSW</span></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">Director, College of Humanities Doctoral Academy</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">Professor of Social Work, School of Applied Human Sciences</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">University of KwaZulu-Natal</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century Gothic", sans-serif;">Durban, SOUTH AFRICA</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: white;"><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>