This is a three-part podcast on Data for Good. We discuss new data landscapes, power dynamics in data, inequities and concrete solutions to redress (some of) them.

The expert today is Gry Hasselbalch. Her expertise is, amongst others, in data equity and power in data. She served as a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Expert Group on AI and a member of the Danish government’s first Data Ethics Expert Group
The data systems we witness forming follow, unsurprisingly, the existing power dynamics. They drive current inequities and inequalities even further. They also give rise to new groups – within countries and on the global scale – of haves and have nots. This part delves into:
• Power – how we live in economies of data and should talk power dynamics, equity, ethics, commons, (re)distribution and so much more.
• Inequities – what skews are being in-built into the new data systems and why they need addressing sooner rather than later;
• Privacy divide – why privacy became a luxury good at the core of yet another divide within and, more starkly, between countries; and
• Data reporting – how pressure builds up for data equity, much like for eco-friendliness before, pushing businesses and governments towards accountability and reporting.