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Data ownership: Who owns what and why
11 June 2019, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Today big corporations have more granular and immediate personal data beyond that of any state. How does this impact the welfare state’s ability to harness and use data for the public good? Leading economist Mariana Mazzucato chairs a discussion with Evgeny Morozov and Isabella de Michelis to discuss the politics of data ownership.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Sold out
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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IIPP Comms Team
Location
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Knowledge CentreBritish Library96 Euston RoadLondonNW1 2DBUnited Kingdom
This event, in partnership with the British Library, is part of the Innovation and the Welfare State series, a dynamic new lecture series that explores how we can deliver public value through innovation. The series brings world-leading thinkers to debate how we can rethink healthcare, green growth, public access to knowledge and new forms of data ownership as part of the 21st-century welfare state.
We will be live-streaming this event via our Facebook page. If you would like to be put on the waiting list for this event, please contact iippcomms@ucl.ac.uk.
About the Speakers
Evgeny Morozov
Author
Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion and To Save Everything, Click Here. Morozov’s monthly column appears in several international newspapers. He has been a fellow at Georgetown University, Stanford University, Open Society Foundations, New America Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin. He has a PhD in history of science from Harvard University.
More about Evgeny MorozovIsabella de Michelis
Founder and CEO at ErnieApp
Isabella de Michelis is the founder and CEO of ErnieApp, the company which launched the first worldwide Privacy Knowledge Manager, a consumer internet app forging into a business model GDPR consent rule. She spent years advising institutional and private clients around digital strategies, wireless broadband, technology policy. She also worked for Cisco and Qualcomm as EU government affairs and technology policy chief.
Mariana Mazzucato
Director at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
This event is chaired by IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato. Mariana is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL). She is winner of the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought and named as one of the '3 most important thinkers about innovation' by the New Republic. She is the author of highly acclaimed books The Entrepreneurial State and The Value of Everything, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize.
More about Mariana Mazzucato
This event is part of Bartlett 100, a year-long celebration in 2019 to mark 100 years since the naming of the faculty. Find out more.