Data management and use: Case studies of technologies and governance
Michael Veale · 2018
Cite as Michael Veale (2017) Data management and use: case studies of technologies and governance (The British Academy and the Royal Society, London) https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/data-governance/These case studies were prepared in support of the Data Management and Use: Governance in the 21st Century project, carried out by the British Academy and the Royal Society. The purpose of these case studies was to stimulate thinking and discussion by the working group, in their deliberations on governance needs for data management and use across all sectors. This publication is an edited version of the case studies presented to the working group.The case studies aim to give concrete examples of the kinds of social and ethical tensions that arise in contemporary data use and management – and they draw on the sets of social and ethical pairings, detailed in the main report of this project, that were identified at a cross- disciplinary expert workshop held in July 2016. They give current and forward-looking examples of the benefits and challenges of data collection, management and use across a range of sectors and the governance needs in different contexts.Intended as they are solely to inform the working group, these case studies are not presented as the views of either Academy, and are not intended as appraisals or evaluations of any of the governance approaches identified in them.. However they illustrate some of the issues that prompted the work behind the Data Management and Use: Governance in the 21st Century report.