Data Cooperatives in the Real World: Progress and Challenges

It’s time for a change in the data ecosystem. In this panel, we’ll explore the motivations for change, the current toolkit for realizing change, and where to go from here.

Speakers

Katrina Ligett is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Head of the Program on Internet & Society at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research interests include data privacy, algorithmic economics, and algorithmic fairness. She is currently serving on the executive committee of the ACM Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation. Her work has been recognized with an NSF Career Award and a Microsoft Faculty Fellowship.

Prof. Kobbi Nissim is McDevitt Chair in Computer Science, Georgetown University. Nissim’s work is focused on the mathematical formulation and understanding of privacy. His work from 2003 and 2004 with Dinur and Dwork initiated rigorous foundational research of privacy and in 2006 he introduced differential privacy with Dwork, McSherry and Smith. Nissim was awarded the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies in 2019, the Gödel Prize In 2017, the IACR TCC Test of Time Award in 2016 and in 2018, and the ACM PODS Alberto O. Mendelzon Test-of-Time Award in 2013.

Anouk Ruhaak is a Mozilla Fellow, embedded with AlgorithmWatch. Her research focusses on data governance models, specifically data trusts. Before joining Mozilla, Anouk worked as a consultant for the Open Data Institute and a data journalist for Platform Investico, where she researched investigative stories around surveillance and privacy. She has a background in political economics and software development, and founded several communities in the tech space.