Dear collegaues,
<br>
<br>August 24, 2020, we will be hosting a seminar with a great list of prominent
<br>experts on the political economy of health data. Please save the date if you
<br>are interested in these issues! See official announcement attached.
<br>
<br>The political economy of health data:
<br>infrastructures, flows and power
<br>
<br>
<br>Seminar organized by Klaus Hoeyer (University of Copenhagen) and Alan Petersen
<br>(Monash University)
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<br>Contributors include:
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<br>Mark Andrejevic (Monash U)
<br>Ulrike Felt (U of Vienna)
<br>Nina Hallowell (Oxford U)
<br>Mette Hartlev (U of Copenhagen)
<br>Linda Hogle (Madison-Wisconsin)
<br>Jane Kaye (Oxford U)
<br>Samuel Lengen (U of Virginia)
<br>Moira Paterson (Monash U)
<br>Barbara Prainsack (U of Vienna)
<br>Tamar Sharon (Raboud U)
<br>Sarah Wadmann (VIVE),
<br>Brit Winthereik (IT University of Copenhagen)
<br>Sally Wyatt (Maastricht U)
<br>
<br>With pervasive digitalization of everyday activities, our social, professional
<br>and political life now unfold under new conditions. All forms of digitally
<br>mediated activity potentially generate data and that data can be exchanged on
<br>the platforms facilitating the activity. It has led some scholars to talk
<br>about the emergence of a platform society. The platform society potentially
<br>transgresses national boundaries and create new global data flows - but not
<br>all data flow freely, and different national and supranational regimes are
<br>emerging and they demarcate data use differently. If the Internet was once
<br>said to make all information equally accessible for all, we today know that
<br>new forms of data divides are developing. As data gain commercial value, they
<br>become guarded by trade secrets and both commercial, political and national
<br>security interests generate new divisions between those with access and those
<br>without.
<br>The new data divides influence how data is produced and used. This seminar
<br>investigates the political economy of health data in light of the new division
<br>of data access. Old distinctions between health data and other data seem to be
<br>emerging and others eroding. If health data used to be seen as particularly
<br>sensitive and guarded by special rules in various jurisdictions, it is today
<br>the platform as much as the nature of the information that determines the
<br>level of sensitivity - and in some jurisdictions whether they even count as
<br>health data. There is a need to understand better the emerging global
<br>political economy of health data and to explore how global variations create
<br>very different power effects and involve very different potentials for data
<br>subjects and data users.
<br>The seminar compares data infrastructures in different geospheres by pursuing
<br>the following cross-cutting themes of comparison:
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<br> * Which actors build, control and use the data infrastructures for
<br>healthcare and health-related research?
<br> * What counts as health data? Are they guarded or defined in any
<br>particular way?
<br> * When infrastructural platforms are used for health data exchange, how
<br>are they then connected and which geographical ties do they involve?
<br> * How do technical, economic, regulatory and geographical features affect
<br>the purposes to which data are put and by whom?
<br> * How do policymakers construe and engage the affected publics?
<br>PRACTICALITIES
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<br> Participation in the seminar is free, but registration is required.
<br>Details will be announced in January, 2020
<br>
<br> The seminar will take place on August 24, 2020, at the University of
<br>Copenhagen, Denmark
<br>
<br> Funded by Australian Research Council and the European Research
<br>Council
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>Klaus Lindgaard Hyer
<br>Professor
<br>
<br>Kbenhavns Universitet
<br>Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet
<br>Afdeling for Sundhedstjenesteforskning
<br>
<br>ster Farimagsgade 5A, Lokale 10.0.09
<br>DK-1014 Kbenhavn K
<br>
<br>T: 3532 7996
<br>F: 3532 7629
<br>M: 2625 6342
<br>S: k.hoeyer
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