Building a collaborative guide to ethical data science

RightsCon 2021: Lightning Talk/Tech Demo - Session Concept submitted under Human Rights-centred Design: This category fosters discussion on technology design, tool development, and user education and experience. It also covers openness and accessibility, community-driven innovation, co-design processes, and user research that supports and prioritizes human rights principles.

Title:

The Turing Way: Building a collaborative guide to ethical data science

Abstract

Data scientists make data-driven decisions throughout the lifecycle of their projects. It is their duty to ensure that their work maintains a high level of moral integrity as well as the highest scientific standards, especially, when it impacts people’s lives. In this presentation, we will introduce The Turing Way, an open source book project that involves and supports its diverse community in developing and sharing resources that make data science reproducible, ethical, collaborative and inclusive. In particular, we will demonstrate the Turing Way guide for Ethical Research, the community behind its development, and its human rights-centred approach to data science ethics as a practice that includes activism for change. Most importantly, we will demonstrate how RightsCon attendees can get involved!

Speakers:

Primary contact: Laura Carter

Laura is a human rights researcher who is one of the Ethics Guide collaborators: as well as developing content that is practical and accessible for data researchers, she also guides new contributors as a new open science contributor herself!

Secondary contact: Malvika Sharan

Malvika is the Community Manager of The Turing Way. She is based at The Alan Turing Institute in the United Kingdom and brings her extensive experience in open science and collaboration to a global community spanning 6 continents.