data-ethics-and-society-reading-group
Data Ethics and Society Reading Group
“Data Science isn’t neutral”; books such as Race After Technology, Invisible Woman and Data Feminism have highlighted the social and ethical impact of Statistics, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The Data Ethics and Society Reading Group is a space for public sector colleagues to reflect on the ethical implications of our work. We read books, journals, blog posts, and watch videos, that relate to doing data science ethically.
We meet four times a year.
Our next session will be on Tuesday 28th February 2023 where we will be discussing Bad data: How Governments, Politicians and the Rest of Us Get Misled by Numbers, by Georgina Sturge.
Sign up to our mailing list to hear about all our events.
The organisers are based in Leeds and Cardiff, and the group is open to all civil servants in the UK. To stay in the loop, please join the #ethics channel on the cross-government Data Science Slack workspace- you’ll need a public sector email address to join. Feel free to run one of the sessions at your own organisation too. All resources are included in this repo.
While you’re here, you may also want to:
- see the dates of our upcoming sessions.
- enjoy our reading list.
- suggest reading materials.
- get involved in organising.
- host a similar event.
Stay in the loop
The main way to keep informed about upcoming sessions is to join our mailing list.
Otherwise, we often post in the 
#ethics 
channel of the cross-government data science slack workspace.
We will also advertise sessions:
- By putting the dates right here in this repository.
- We’ll tweet about it at #DSEthicsGroup
Get Involved
If you’re interested in joining us in organising, please ping us on Slack. We would really welcome new organisers.
Organisers
You can also contact us separately:
How to make suggestions
If you’d like to make a suggestion for what to read, please do whatever you’d prefer:
- make an issue - use the suggestion(s) template.
- make a Pull Request (PR)
Attendance
This meetup is exclusively for the public sector (central and local government and their arms-length bodies, government companies, policing and public health organisations, such as the NHS).
Frequently Asked Questions
- Can I use a personal email address to register and access the event on Microsoft Teams?
Please register with your work address to help us check that you are a UK public sector employee. If you use a personal email address, your registration may be cancelled.
- How do you make your events accessible to all attendees?
Microsoft Teams provides a live captioning feature for attendees to use. We encourage our speakers to design slides with accessibility in mind, and we will try our best to send the slides in advance.
- If you have any suggestions or requests regarding accessibility features, please email []. TODO: add email
Privacy statement
Acknowledgements
Built off of, inspired by, and borrowing heavily from:
- Ethics Book Club in a Box from DataKind UK: an intro to setting up a data ethics book club.
- Data Ethics Club
This website has passed the Government’s accessibility criteria. If you want to raise anything related to its accessibility, please email Government.Data.Science.Conference@ons.gov.uk
Contributors
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mshodge 📋 🤔 🖋 💬 📝 🚧 |
HillaryJuma 📋 🤔 🖋 💬 🎨 |
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This project follows the all-contributors specification, with some small tweaks to fit our purposes! We use…
- 🖋 for submitting suggestions to the “reading” list (suggestions can be any medium!)
- 💬 for leading the discussion in a meeting
- 📝 for attending a Data Ethics Club meeting (and contributing to our outputs)
- 📋 for organising
- 🤔 for ideas and planning of the group
- 🎨 for visual design (e.g. logo)
- 🚧 for repository maintenance (e.g. fixing links)