Data as a Development Issue Conference

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Agenda

9:00am: Welcome Professor James Foster, Professor and Director, Institute for International Economic Policy and George Washington University

9:15am: Presentation by Vivien Foster, World Bank, Chief Economist for the Infrastructure Vice-Presidency

9:50am: Coffee Break

10:00am: Data and Development: How will data and the data-drive economy affect development?

• Emmanuel F. LeTouze, Co-founder and Director, Data Pop
• Vivian Ranson, Lead, Development Informatics Team, US Agency for International Development
• Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief of Research and Development, Governance, The Governance Lab
• Chair: Susan Aaronson, Research Professor and Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, George Washington University

11:30am: Lunch & Keynote Presentation by Claire Melamed, CEO, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data

1:15pm: Governing Data for Development: What does good data governance look like? How can

development organizations best promote sound data practices?

• Shaida Badiee, Managing Director, Open Data Watch
• Agnieszka Rawa, Managing Director, Data Collaboratives for Local Impact, Millennium Challenge Corporation
• Priya Vora, CEO, Future State
• Chair: Michael Pisa, Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development

2:45pm: Coffee Break

3:00pm: A Global Framework for Inclusive Development: How can low- and middle-income countries participate on equal terms in a data-driven economy?

• Burcu Kilic, Director, Digital Rights Program & Research Director, Public Citizen
• Nanjala Nyabola, Writer, Humanitarian Advocate and Political
  Analyst
• Sreekanth Mukku, Project Manager, Data Privacy in the Global South, Konnektiv Kollektiv
• Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
• Chair: Sabine Muscat, Program Director, Technology and Digital Policy, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Washington, DC

4:30pm: Concluding remarks by Shantayanan Devarajan, Commissioner of the Pathways to Prosperity Commission on Technology and Inclusive Development and Professor at Georgetown University

5:00pm: Conference Concludes

Conference Organizers
Susan Aaronson, Ph.D, George Washington University
Sebastian Duwe, Ph.D., Heinrich Boll Foundation, Washington DC
Michael Pisa, Center for Global Development, Washington DC
Sabine Weyand Heinrich Boll Foundation, Washington DC
Thanks to Kyle Renner and his staff for making the trains run on time, outreach, and food..