Check Your Tech - Considering the Provenance of Data Used to Build Digital Products and Services

Dympna O’Sullivan; Damian Gordon

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-65828-1_16

Check Your Tech - Considering the Provenance of Data Used to Build Digital Products and Services

Dympna O’Sullivan
, Damian Gordon

Technological University Dublin

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

Digital products and services are producing unprecedented amounts of data worldwide. These products and services have broad reach and include many users and consumers in the developing world. Once data is collected it is often used to create large and valuable datasets. A lack of data protection regulation in the developing world has led to concerns about digital colonization and a lack of control of their data on the part of citizens in the developing world. The authors of this paper are developing a new digital ethics curriculum for the instruction of computer science students. In this paper we present two case studies we have developed with a focus on data ethics in a developing world context. Each case study is accompanied by a list of specific questions to be used by the instructor to allow students to evaluate the implications of introducing new digital products and services in a developing world context as well as a generic case studies checksheet that allow deeper reflection on the intended and unintended consequences of introducing new technologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information and Communication Technologies for Development- 16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Julian M. Bass, P.J. Wall
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	195-204
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9783030658274
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65828-1_16
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 10 Jun 2020 → 11 Jun 2020

Publication series

Name	IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume	587 IFIP
ISSN (Print)	1868-4238
ISSN (Electronic)	1868-422X

Conference

Conference	16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020
City	Virtual, Online
Period	10/06/20 → 11/06/20

Keywords

Computer science education
Digital colonization
Digital ethics

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O’Sullivan, D., & Gordon, D. (2020). Check Your Tech - Considering the Provenance of Data Used to Build Digital Products and Services. In J. M. Bass, & P. J. Wall (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies for Development- 16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020, Proceedings (pp. 195-204). (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 587 IFIP). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65828-1_16

O’Sullivan, Dympna ; Gordon, Damian. / Check Your Tech - Considering the Provenance of Data Used to Build Digital Products and Services. Information and Communication Technologies for Development- 16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020, Proceedings. editor / Julian M. Bass ; P.J. Wall. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020. pp. 195-204 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology).

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O’Sullivan, D & Gordon, D 2020, Check Your Tech - Considering the Provenance of Data Used to Build Digital Products and Services. in JM Bass & PJ Wall (eds), Information and Communication Technologies for Development- 16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020, Proceedings. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol. 587 IFIP, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 195-204, 16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020, Virtual, Online, 10/06/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65828-1_16

Check Your Tech - Considering the Provenance of Data Used to Build Digital Products and Services. / O’Sullivan, Dympna; Gordon, Damian.
Information and Communication Technologies for Development- 16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020, Proceedings. ed. / Julian M. Bass; P.J. Wall. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020. p. 195-204 (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology; Vol. 587 IFIP).

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O’Sullivan D, Gordon D. Check Your Tech - Considering the Provenance of Data Used to Build Digital Products and Services. In Bass JM, Wall PJ, editors, Information and Communication Technologies for Development- 16th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2020, Proceedings. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. 2020. p. 195-204. (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-65828-1_16

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