[Commlist] New research report by the Data Justice Lab: Civic Participation in the Datafied Society

today the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University is publishing a new 
research report on "Civic Participation in the Datafied Society". You 
can download it (pdf) here: 
https://datajusticelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/CivicParticipation_DataJusticeLab_Report2022.pdf 
<https://datajusticelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/CivicParticipation_DataJusticeLab_Report2022.pdf>


The report addresses a key problem of datafication: Although data 
systems are rapidly rolled out in the public sector, there is little 
public knowledge about these developments, with few possibilities to 
intervene into, and participate in, decisions about datafication. How, 
then, do we advance people’s voice in the deployment of data and AI? How 
do we democratise datafied governance?


In the report, we explore different ways in which citizens are – and can 
be - involved in these decisions which are fundamentally transforming 
societies. We investigate the roles of citizen juries and citizen 
summits, oversight and advisory institutions, civil society campaigns, 
alternative discourses and infrastructures, and efforts to advance data 
literacy, as well as the shortcomings of existing processes.


While there is a lack of institutional procedures for meaningful 
participation, we found many promising practices and proposals that 
establish a more central role for citizens in decisionmaking over data. 
Our research shows that the democratisation of datafied governance is a 
key challenge for contemporary societies.


The report provides a comprehensive set of findings from the 3-year 
research project "Towards Democratic Auditing: Civic Participation in 
the Scoring Society" which was funded by the Open Society Foundations 
and involved a wide range of interviews with experts and practitioners, 
observations of relevant practices, and fact-finding workshops.


Together with the report, we are also launching a new website 
-https://www.datafiedsociety.org/ <https://www.datafiedsociety.org/> - 
which summarises some of the arguments and cases discussed in the report.

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