Fransizka Putz
Policy & Advocacy Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
Power & Diplomacy: When Open Data and Realpolitik Collide
Open Data
Tuesday, February 7 • 1:00pm – 1:30pm GMT
St James, 4th Floor
Power & Diplomacy: When Open Data and Realpolitik Collide
Power & Diplomacy: When Open Data and Realpolitik Collide
The utopian promise of the Internet was to democratise knowledge and promote free and open culture. However, efforts by some actors have contributed to the emergence of closed spaces of data sharing and access, which has perpetuated many of the same power structures and concentrations that exist in the offline world.
In this session, the panel will consider how compatible the ideals of open data are within a world that is increasingly characterised by conflict, competition and growing scepticism towards further globalisation.
The panel will discuss the prospects for open data initiatives that are vulnerable to this challenging geopolitical context. Topics to be discussed include the resilience of data sharing to political interests and the weaponisation of data and its infrastructure.
Bio
I’m Ziski (she/her), an Austrian-American with an unpronounceable nickname and fascination with how digital technologies are changing the way we understand and address social inequality…and whose voices are heard in those discussions.
I’ve been a community organizer, top-performing SaaS seller, think-tank founder, policy researcher, diversity & inclusion program manager, humanitarian aid innovator, and relationship-abuse educator. At LinkedIn I experienced the value of private-public partnerships through data-driven collaborations with the World Bank and IRC. I traded lead generation for theory investigation at Oxford to learn how to offset the inequitable underbelly of innovation that I witnessed in Silicon Valley.