Data Ethics and Governance

Remit

• promote good practice by addressing what good data stewardship and ethical practices look like i.e. a virtue ethics to balance the predominant reporting of impacts
• promote the statistical and inferential aspects of data rather than individuals e.g. coverage, bias, models and stochastic rather than deterministic thinking
• develop a trusted voice on data ethics, including inputting to consultation exercises, locating a suitable public profile to promote the interests and concerns of professionals
• coordinate data governance interests across the RSS, throughout the UK landscape, and offer international leadership, by convening and synthesising strategically
• promote the skills development of data ethics across all career stages and disciplines, contributing to case studies and curriculum development
• lift the quality of the conversation, bringing a critical eye to the precise use of concepts and language and raising standards of transparent public engagement
• foster multi-disciplinary connections and the exchanging of ideas by convening those who may not see themselves within the RSS community and speaking externally
• engage members, and non-members, to think more broadly about the impact of new uses of data on our society, and how that affects professional responsibilities.