<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">Dear colleagues,</font></span></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"> </font></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">I will appreciate your kind help to share this important conference information with your colleagues and academic networks. Details below.</font></span></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"> </font></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">The Committee on Data of the <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" originalsrc="https://council.science/" title="Original URL: https://council.science/. Click or tap if you trust this link." class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA4cefe18d-bf82-847a-628c-b9c9057c6add" href="https://council.science/" style="margin: 0px;">International Science Council (ISC)</a>, <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" originalsrc="https://codata.org/" title="Original URL: https://codata.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link." class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAa0523e86-1e6e-f454-6cd0-b38fb6a12b30" href="https://codata.org/" style="margin: 0px;">CODATA</a> helps realise ISC’s <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" originalsrc="https://council.science/about-us/" title="Original URL: https://council.science/about-us/. Click or tap if you trust this link." class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAb2f6c49d-6acd-6937-7dc0-7fb9a1fa812a" href="https://council.science/about-us/" style="margin: 0px;">vision</a> 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.</font></span></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white; min-height: 15px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"> </font></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">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 <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" originalsrc="https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/data-ethics/" title="Original URL: https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/data-ethics/. Click or tap if you trust this link." class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA524747b4-a371-4b83-13c7-f3262531a23e" href="https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/data-ethics/" style="margin: 0px;">https://codata.org/initiatives/task-groups/data-ethics/</a></font></span></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white; min-height: 15px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"> </font></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white; min-height: 15px;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">CODATA Data Ethics Task Group (DETG) is organising the Global Data Ethics and Governance Symposium on 18-19 September 2025 in Durban, South Africa. </font></span></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white; min-height: 15px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"> </font></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">We invite individual paper abstracts and panel proposals under following sub-themes:</font></span></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial"><br></font></span></p><ol start="1" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">Data Ethics and Scientific Integrity</font></span></li><li style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">Data Privacy</font></span></li><li style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">Data Ethics and Structural Inequities in Science</font></span></li><li style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">Ethics of Indigenous Data Governance</font></span></li><li style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">Ethical Data Stewardship and Data Colonialism</font></span></li></ol><div class="elementToProof" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;"><ol start="6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; flex-direction: column; display: flex;"><li style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); align-self: start; margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">Data Ethics and Artificial Intelligence</font></span></li></ol></div><div class="elementToProof" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;"><ol start="7" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; flex-direction: column; display: flex;"><li style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); align-self: start; margin: 0px;"><span role="presentation" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">Data Sovereignty and Intellectual Property Protection</font></span></li></ol><div><font color="#242424" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#242424" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">Please submit abstracts by 1 September 2025 </span></font></div></div><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white; min-height: 15px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"> </font></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 14.666667px;"><font face="Arial">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 data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" originalsrc="https://codata.org/codata-data-ethics-working-group-policy-briefs-available-for-comment-and-feedback/" title="Original URL: https://codata.org/codata-data-ethics-working-group-policy-briefs-available-for-comment-and-feedback/. 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Click or tap if you trust this link." class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAdbdfc645-0b3c-7fb6-a398-4ea757a1f292" href="https://codata.org/call-for-abstracts-codata-global-data-ethics-governance-symposium-18-19-sept-2025-durban-south-africa/#codata" style="margin: 0px;">https://codata.org/call-for-abstracts-codata-global-data-ethics-governance-symposium-18-19-sept-2025-durban-south-africa/#codata</a></font></span></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"> </font></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;">Best wishes</font></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"> </font></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;">Suchith</font></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;"> </font></p><div class="elementToProof" id="x_x_x_x_Signature" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px;"><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;">Professor Suchith Anand</font></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Arial" style="font-size: 14.666667px;">Professor of Practice in Science Policy | Senior Adviser to Governments and International Organisations | Scientist | Global Citizen | Science Diplomacy | SDG Volunteer and Advocate</font></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 14.666667px;"><a href="https://spspa.exeter.ac.uk/people/profile/index.php?username=sa1131" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><font face="Arial">https://spspa.exeter.ac.uk/people/profile/index.php?username=sa1131</font></a></span></p><p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-size: 14.666667px;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="7" originalsrc="https://ethicaldatainitiative.org/" title="Original URL: https://ethicaldatainitiative.org/. 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