BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The 4th Annual Symposium on the Digital Person (Online) - Dr Irene Ng ( Senior Member of Wolfson College) DTSTART:20200903T090000Z DTEND:20200903T170000Z UID:TALK150235@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:95377 DESCRIPTION:*"REGISTER HERE":https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-4th-annual -symposium-on-the-digital-person-online-registration-111616098756* \n\nThe use of personal data is of enormous global concern. The Digital Person sy mposium is an annual event organised by the HAT-LAB and Wolfson College Ca mbridge that discusses personal data from three perspectives: (1) digital personhood\, law\, freedom and democracy (humanities) (2) value\, economic s and markets (social science) and (3) data analytics\, data science and t echnology (science and technology). Symposium participants are drawn from industry captains\, policy makers\, government representatives\, combined with thought leaders from the sciences\, humanities and social sciences wi th discussions relating to law\, computer science\, history\, sociology\, entrepreneurship\, business\, economics and the global society. The sympos ium is chaired by 3 eminent professors in the field\, Professors John Naug hton\, Jon Crowcroft and Irene Ng. This unique cross-disciplinary symposiu m is organised jointly by Wolfson College Cambridge and HATLAB.\n\nAside f rom creating a unique environment for a robust discussion that is relevant and important\, the symposium also produces an annual white paper on the state of the digital person in a connected and digital society. The paper would then be presented to the Digital Person Symposium Committee\, which acts as an editorial board.\n\nThis year’s symposium’s theme is:\n\n*D igital Identity in a Post Pandemic World*\n\n\n\n*Digital Identity in Tech nology* \n_Digital ID thru the covid-19 back door_\n\nThe UK has been rema rkably resistant to the imposition of a single national identity system\, analog or digital. Now\, various moves in the government reacting to the C ovid-19 pandemic are afoot to create a digital identity system\, rooted in one of the trustworthy organisations\, the NHS. Such an ID system\, it is claimed\, could simplify efforts to control the pandemic\, such as Contac t tracing\, and Immunity Passporting. Yet\, contact tracing can be done wi thout ID (e.g. anonymously via decentralised systems)\, and as yet\, immun ity is not a medically verifiable property people can obtain (and may not ever be obtained)\, nor does immunity necessarily strongly correlate with lack of infectiousness\, so risk to others (which is often the critical so cial concern) is not a guarantee at all. In the long run\, disaggregated a nd federated identity systems might simplify some social activities\, and the designs of such systems might help with appropriate design choices for these public health services. These would also uncover assumptions about the trustworthiness or otherwise of various actors in such systems. \n\nS ession chaired by: Professor Jon Crowcroft\, Cambridge Computer Labs\, Uni versity of Cambridge\, other speakers to be confirmed\n\n*Digital Identity in Humanities*\n_Tech 'solutionism' vs public trust: lessons from the con tact-tracing fiasco._ \n\nTech 'solutionism' is the belief that for every social problem there is a tech solution. Proximity-sensing apps were init ially touted as a heaven-sent tool for managing the pandemic and its after math. They definitely had a role to play in this -- but only as an augmen tation of traditional labour-intensive methods of testing\, tracing and is olating. To be effective\, proximity-sensing apps needed wide adoption an d public trust. Most of them failed to achieve this. Why?\n\nSession Chai red by Professor John Naughton\, University of Cambridge\, other speakers to be confirmed\n\n*Digital Identity in Economic Markets*\n_Identity as as set\, information and coordination_\n\nSensor data on a phone has always b een an information good held by the technology firm that controls it\, for example\, Apple and Google for iOS and Android phones. Whether it’s Blu etooth identifier\, location data or a MAC address\, the ability for that information to move at great speeds and at scale through the Internet make s it an attractive asset for achieving mass coordination of the people tha t hold the devices. Little wonder that it is sought by governments in thei r attempt to carefully mobilise a workforce to get the economy re-started. The information from devices creates a three tier market. First\, for the data itself\, and access to it. Second\, for the information it transmits and third\, for the ability of that information to coordinate other marke ts such as health and finance. Is it acceptable to restrict transactions o n the data (such as the conditions Apple and Google are imposing for covid 19 tracing apps) in the name of keeping transactions safe (a necessary com ponent of a market). At what point does this become market manipulation?\n \nSession Chaired by Professor Irene Ng\, University of Warwick\; Director \, HAT-LAB\, other speakers to be confirmed\n\n*Programme for the day*\n\n Drop in for Zoom coffee: From 9:45am\n\n10:15am: Opening remarks\, James K ingston\, HATLAB Deputy Director and moderator of the symposium\n\n10:30am : State of the HAT Ecosystem - Professor Irene Ng\, Director\, HAT-LAB\n\n 11:15am: Coffee break / Q&A\n\n11:30am - 1pm: Technology session chair by Professor Jon Crowcroft\n\n1-2pm: Lunch break\n\n2-3:30pm: Humanities sess ion chaired by Professor John Naughton\n\n3:30pm - 3:45pm: Coffee break/Q& A\n\n3:45pm - 5:15pm: Economics session chaired by Professor Irene Ng\n\n5 :15pm - 6pm: Drop in Pimms and drinks \n\n\n*About the Chairs*\nProfessor *Jon Crowcroft*\, FRS\, FREng is the Marconi Professor of Communications S ystems in the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge and the C hair of the Programme Committee at the Alan Turing Institute. Professor Jo n Crowcroft is distinguished for his many seminal contributions to the dev elopment of the Internet and is a fellow of Wolfson College\, Cambridge. \ n\nhttps://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac22/ \n\nProfessor *John Naughton*\, FRSA i s a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Research in the Arts\, Social Sciences\, and Humanities at Cambridge University\, Professor John Naught on is a Technology columnist of the London Observer newspaper\, Professor of the public understanding of technology at the Open University and the a uthor of “From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: What You Really Need to Know Abo ut the Internet” published by Quercus Books. \n\nhttps://memex.naughtons .org \n\nProfessor *Irene Ng* is Professor of Marketing and Service System s\, WMG\, University of Warwick and the Director of HAT-LAB. Professor Ire ne Ng is also a Turing Fellow\, the CEO of Dataswift\, and the creator of the Personal Data Account infrastructure powered by the HAT Microserver. S he specialises in market design economics and service ecosystems and is th e author of “Creating New Markets in the Digital Economy” published by Cambridge University Press. \n\nhttp://ireneng.com\n\n___________________ __________________________________________________________________\n\n*"RE GISTER HERE":https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-4th-annual-symposium-on-th e-digital-person-online-registration-111616098756* LOCATION:Online END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR