Webinar: Open data, privacy protection & ethics clearance: tensions in a fragmented compliance landscape

Date: Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 4pm Central European Time

Duration: 90 min

Description: This webinar introduced CGIAR Big Data Platform’s webinar series on Responsible Data Management. It focused on the tensions faced by researchers in making their data open while also acting responsibly to protect the privacy and wellbeing of the subjects and communities they work with. A fragmented compliance landscape existing at the intersection of open data, privacy protection and ethics clearance was explored and complemented by CGIAR perspectives regarding the compliance challenges they face.

Topics/Speakers

· Open data vs. responsible data: what are the tensions and what’s at stake? (Gideon Kruseman, CIMMYT & Robert Hijmans, UC Davis )

· A birds-eye view of a fragmented compliance landscape for privacy and ethics in agricultural research (Rodrigo Sara, Big Data Platform

· How do institutional IRB requirements and/or privacy laws affect agricultural research?

• • perspectives from Bioversity (Nicole Demers & Dario Valori)

  • perspectives from CIMMYT (Gideon Kruseman)

  • perspectives from CIAT (Steve Prager & Carolina Roa)

  • perspectives from ILRI (Silvia Alonzo)

  • perspectives from CIFOR (Bimbika Sijapati Basnett )

The webinar is available for viewing on the CGIAR Big Data webinar Platform.