9:30 am – 10:00 am – Doors Open
10:00 am – 10:30 am – Welcome (Lisa Austin)
10:30 am – 11:30 am – Data Access and Social Media Research: Is the DSA’s focus on data access enough? How might the right to information need to evolve in order to ensure that the digital world can be independently knowable and interrogated and that this ability is equitably distributed?
- Lisa Austin* (University of Toronto, Schwartz Reisman Institute; Institute for Rebooting Social Media), Swati Srivastava (Purdue University; Institute for Rebooting Social Media), Gabriel Nicholas (Center for Democracy & Technology; New York University), Jeff Hall (University of Kansas; Institute for Rebooting Social Media)
11:45 am – 12:45 pm – Implementation Challenges: There are many implementation challenges, such as safeguarding privacy and protecting confidential commercial information. Some of these require policy responses and others require technological solutions. How can these challenges be addressed in a manner that ensures independent and equitable access?
- David Lie* (University of Toronto, Schwartz Reisman Institute), Delara Derakhshani (Data Transfer Initiative), Becca Ricks (Mozilla Foundation), Hilary Ross (Global Network Initiative)
12:45 pm – 1:30 pm – Lunch
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm – Justice and the Right to Information: How does the right to information in the private sector fit within broader sets of concerns regarding the social and democratic value of data, data colonialism, data justice, and epistemic justice? Do these broader concerns help us understand what is at stake or the potential scope of the right?
- Elettra Bietti* (Northeastern University School of Law), Ulises Mejias (SUNY Oswego), Aziz Huq (University of Chicago Law School)
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm – Closing Remarks
*Denotes session moderator.