461: Ethical Data Governance in Design, Practice, and Education (18238)

Growing stockpiles of digital data, arising from ubiquitous digitalization and consumerization of IT, present untold opportunities for innovation and societal benefit. However, these data also pose substantial risks to privacy, autonomy, equity, and social inclusion. Balancing these issues calls for ethical approaches to data governance within and across organizations to maximize societal benefits while mitigating negative outcomes. Yet achieving such balance presents formidable organizational and technical challenges. Responding to the conference theme, Innovating for the Future: Policy, Purpose, and Organizations, in the context of digital data management and governance, this PDW addresses the relationships between policy, purpose, innovation and value in the creation and uses of digital data resources and examines approaches to embed effective ethical governance approaches into data management technologies, sociotechnical platforms, and organizational practices. The PDW also explores policy, processes and practices to respond to societal regulation of digital data resources intended to ensure privacy, autonomy and equity while also facilitating the innovative potential and value of data resources. The objective of the PDW is to highlight practical actions that management scholars and practitioners can take to “bake” ethical data management and governance into organizational (and interorganizational) technologies, practices and strategies. The workshop format will engage participants actively with issues and techniques to address challenges.