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# IGF 2018 WS #232 Big Data Governance for Paris Agreement & SDGs

Format:

Panel - 60 Min

Theme:

Development, Innovation & Economic Issues

Subtheme:

BIG DATA

Organizer 1: CHANG LIU, Chinese Institute of Eletronics
Organizer 2: Ana Neves, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia I.P.
Organizer 3: Simon Hodson, Committee on Data of the International Council for Science

Speaker 1: Chuang Liu, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 2: Ana Neves, Government, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 3: Ricardo Israel Robles Pelayo, Private Sector, Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC)
Speaker 4: Peter Pissierssens, Intergovernmental Organization, Intergovernmental Organization
Speaker 5: Simon Hodson, Technical Community, Intergovernmental Organization

Relevance:

Big data, as a new emerging and challenging technology, is providing unprecedented opportunities for information society and communities to address more complex tasks, especially in dealing with climate changes, which include changing weather patterns, rising sea level, and more extreme weather events. To address climate change, countries adopted the Paris Agreement at the COP21 in Paris on 12 December 2015 and entered into force shortly thereafter, on 4 November 2016. Implementation of the Paris Agreement is also essential for the achievement of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, and provides a roadmap for climate actions (SDGs 13). There are more and more big data programs and actions over the world in either global scale, such as Open Data in a Big Data Era (International Council for Sciences-ICSU), long term program, such as the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange" (IODE-UNESCO), regional scales, such as Global Change Research Data Publishing & Repository (Chinese Academy of Sciences – CAS), and many local scale data programs. The new challenges from the big data cover the data in not only local scale, but regional and global; not only issues on data sharing, but data quality, security, timely, intellectual protection, networking, inter-operational technology etc. New laws, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will frame a new big data environment. In order to recognize the big data challenges more focusable address the issues more efficiently and find out solutions more reliable, a common understanding of big data governance should come out soon.

Session Content:

This workshop keeps to the theme of IGF 2018 “Development, Innovation & Economic Issues” and focuses on the big data governance for Paris Agreement and SDGs. The session is to be expanded in three parts: new milestone of the big data under global change, big data on laws and regulations, and big data network governance. The expected outcomes are: 1.Reach common understanding and explore cooperation mechanism of multistakeholders on big data and governance in implementing SDGs. 2.Holding a follow-up workshop next year and come out a big data governance principles and guidelines. 3.Finally achieve the global governance beyond the borders of countries and regions.

Interventions:

Prof. Liu Chuang will start the session by welcoming all the speakers and audiences (including online participants) and then give the review of Global Change Research Data Publishing & Sharing. Dr. Simon Hodson, the Executive Director from Committee on Data of the International Council for Science, will talk about Open Data in Big Data Era. Ana Cristina Amoroso das Neves, from Department for the Information Society, Portugal, will discuss the introduction and interpretation of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Dr. Peter Pissierssens, Director of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission" (IOC) of UNESCO, will address Progress of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange. Prof. Ricardo Israel Robles Pelayo, from International Commercial Law of the Universidad Humannas, Mexico, will address the policies and legal issues on Big Data in support of achieving SDGs.

Diversity:

It is a multi-stakeholder discussion on the big data and intelligent governance on information society. Two females and three males among the five speakers confirmed, they are from Asia, Europe and South America. Among them two are from international government, and the rest are from the local government, education and academic communities, and private sectors. The diversity speakers will help the expected outcomes more efficient and benefit to all.

Online Participation:

Online participation will be led by a facilitated dialogue. There will be a live broadcast on the meeting and online attendees will get involved in the workshop during the whole session. Besides, online attendees will have a separate queue and microphone which rotate equally with the mics in the room and is entitled to raise questions after each presentation of the speaker and engage during the panel discussion. Trained online moderator with previous experience will direct the online participation.

Discussion Facilitation:

The moderator will open the session by welcoming all the participants, introducing the topic about to be discussed and the speakers present and online participants. (10 minutes) All Speakers make their presentation respectively. After each presentation, the moderator make comments and engage the audiences and online participants in a quick Q&A session. (40 minutes) Right after the presentations, the moderator will engage the panelists in a lively conversation to get their perspectives on the session and questions raised during the presentations. (20 minutes) The moderator will elicit what panelists find most insightful from the discussion and build on them by asking questions to create active flow of conversation with both panelists and experts in the audience. (10 minutes） The last ten minutes, the moderator will warp up the discussion by summarising the consensus of the facilitated dialogue and pointing out the challenges we are confronting. (10 minutes)

Onsite Moderator:

Liu Chuang

Online Moderator:

Zhou Xiang

Rapporteur:

Liu Chang

Agenda:

The workshop shall start with the welcome note and introduction with highlight of the discussion by Onsite Moderator Prof. Liu Chuang, and will keep time to ensure that panelists, audiences and online participants can meaningfully provide insights, comments and questions (5 Mins). After this introduction, she will give individual speaking slot to the Panel Speaker (5 Mins each). This will take around 40 minutes. Individual slots are utilized as follows:
1. Prof Liu Chuang, the Editor-in-Chief of Global Change Research Data Publishing & Repository, will provide an overview of global change research data publishing & sharing. She will be discussing on the practices on data policies, and technology solution and information sharing for implementation of big data in achieving SDGs.
2. Dr. Peter Pissierssens, the Director of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO, will discuss about the progress of the international oceanographic data as well as the information exchange, including current policies, internet access, public resources, etc.
3. Ana Cristina Amoroso das Neves will provide the insight from the Government stakeholder group's perspective, and she will introduce and interpret the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that go towards a revolution of big data governance and responsibilities.
4. Prof. Ricardo Israel Robles Pelayo, from the International Commercial Law of the Universidad Humannas, Mexico, will address the policies and legal issues on big data in support of achieving SDGs, specially highlighting the big data and human rights according to Mexican law, and the governance and legal issues of data access.
5. Dr. Simon Hodson, the Executive Director of the Committee on Data of the International Council for Science, will elaborate on the case of open data. His presentation will focus on current challenges, the socio-economic impacts, the emerging needs and other issues of open data in big data era.
The Onsite Moderator Prof. Liu Chuang and Online Moderator Prof. Zhou Xiang will elicit what panelists find most insightful from the discussion and build on them by asking questions to create active flow of conversation with panelists, online participants and experts in the audiences (15 Mins).
The last five minutes, the Onsite Moderator will close the workshop by summarizing the consensus of the facilitated discussion (5 Mins).

Session Time:
Wednesday, 14 November, 2018 - 11:20 to 12:20
Room:
Salle X

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