https://www.seanmartinmcdonald.com/activism-organizing daily 0.75 2022-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/d80ccdb5-6193-453a-bc71-df71c3d79dc6/Screen+Shot+2022-10-18+at+6.10.26+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613443999364-NGNSJV1CNWO6RXR5523P/Screen+Shot+2021-02-15+at+9.53.02+PM.png Activism + Organizing - Ebola, Contact Tracing + Digital Experimentation Ethics I’ve been researching, writing, and advocating around the digital transformation of contact tracing since the 2014 Ebola epidemic. That work includes first-person technical and legal research, support and capacity building for vital service organizations, and broad public activist and policy education and engagement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613445045092-VD19W7QG6KBYYAZT8FPO/WJP.png Activism + Organizing - Access to Justice I have worked researched, designed technology for, and deployed systems that have improved the quantity, quality, and efficiency of legal services. I believe that until people are able to pursue their rights directly and equitably, our systems are de facto unjust. The access to justice gap is a foundational element of any serious approach to architecting a just digital world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613441347360-0D6JOKTR1PI667YJ5IGZ/Black+logo+-+no+background.png Activism + Organizing - Data Governance Design Conference In 2019, I led the organization of the Data Governance Design Conference, in partnership with Duke’s Center on Law & Technology, Stanford’s Digital Civil Society Lab, and the Ostrom Workshop, among others. Learn more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613441720681-QKT3C84XCSOS8HSDR2HU/Citizen+Kane.jpeg Activism + Organizing - Sidewalk Labs + Toronto I supported public institutions, community activists, and civil society litigants with data governance expertise in evaluating Sidewalk Labs’ proposed development in Quayside, Toronto. I played a small role, but involved working across a range of interventions, and Sidewalk Labs ultimately abandoned its bid. My expert testimony [pdf] for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association and more in the Writing section. https://www.seanmartinmcdonald.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-02-17 https://www.seanmartinmcdonald.com/data-governance-and-digitalpolitik daily 0.75 2021-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847804541-MEVZ4A9R9Z2MI20SI2ST/image-asset.jpeg Data Governance + DigitalPolitik - Build it. It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613441156923-7D01BVOLJJBHCSPL9P9E/Screen+Shot+2021-02-15+at+9.05.37+PM.png Data Governance + DigitalPolitik - International DigitalPolitik It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847902870-ZOUR0EX0L2QSQNRC1SP2/image-asset.jpeg Data Governance + DigitalPolitik - Make it stand out. It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847903067-57HDPDJ6TWU40QPAQLS4/image-asset.jpeg Data Governance + DigitalPolitik - Make it stand out. It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.seanmartinmcdonald.com/designing-governance daily 0.75 2023-08-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613317095873-RVAMJX5LI5Z58QSZ5WAE/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-02-13%2Bat%2B7.05.33%2BPM.jpg Designing Governance - Data Governance Mandates + Best Practice Guidance With an exceptional team, assembled by DataReady, I helped the World Health Organization frame its data governance authorities and publish best practice principles and guidelines amidst the COVID-19 pandemic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613526881514-O7BW4UTNKQJ3T6QRUSNR/meedan_logo.png Designing Governance - Designing Contextual Data Governance Meedan is doing some of the most fascinating work, building regional civil society networks focused on contextualizing social media content through its product, Check. I help them with the legal and strategic design of the data governance of those relationships. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/a5cf9a11-362b-4a77-be29-8eb7c043e202/Screen+Shot+2023-08-31+at+11.42.44+AM.png Designing Governance - Patient-Led Digital Rights I supported the team at The Light Collective in strategically negotiating for digital rights for patients, including guides for advocates to negotiate digital rights for themselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/a744c466-d8d0-41f2-a617-7d929a42da25/NSCS+logo.jpg Designing Governance - Negotiating Fairer Digital Courts I supported the National Center for State Courts in developing guidance for court systems negotiating digital services contracts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613317529859-JTQJ0PFW581T5IM7J7E6/Screen+Shot+2021-02-14+at+10.45.16+AM.png Designing Governance - From Privacy to Proactive Governance I supported the Mozilla Foundation leadership’s exploration of the strategic potential of data governance markets - with a specific focus on building actionable, impact-focused interventions and infrastructure. More here: blog post + longer report https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613526977566-147S4414TMETBCH8QZNP/Screen+Shot+2021-02-13+at+7.05.53+PM.png Designing Governance - Governing the Fisheries Data I worked with Bianca Wylie, Vass Bednar, Kate Wing, and a brilliant group of participants to help a public interest regulator engage with the digital transformation of the industry it oversees. We produced a context-specific report and a resource guide designed to translate relationships into data governance agreements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1615926175815-PB4OAR8QTXDMX6DJ51WM/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-03-16%2Bat%2B4.10.26%2BPM.jpg Designing Governance With support from the Minderoo Foundation’s Frontier Technology Initiative, I wrote an analysis of how to frame strategic impact litigation focused on digital rights. It discusses the structural factors involved in changing digital norms and enforcing judgments beyond fines. It recommends focusing on private rights of action, jurisdictions with significant fixed investments, and (broadly construed) injunctive relief. You can read a pre-print here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613509181573-O1H1IXWX6YBBG5NJTKOC/Screen+Shot+2021-02-16+at+3.44.20+PM.png Designing Governance - Governing a Digital Circular Economy I worked with Bianca Wylie and the team at Guelph-Wellington to provide governance design expertise and support for their successful $10m Smart Cities Challenge proposal. 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CIGI Online 2018 Civic Data Trusts Some Thoughts 2019 Reclaiming Data Trusts CIGI Online 2019 The Fiduciary Supply Chain CIGI Online 2019 Digital Content Governance and Data Trusts Government of Canada 2020 (and in French) A Fiduciary Approach to Children’s Data Governance UNICEF 2021 On Forging a Path to Digital Rights CIGI Online 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613509794205-GVC0QRSCJRTBCUZ47STJ/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-02-15%2Bat%2B2.53.44%2BPM.jpg Writing - Digital Governance + DigitalPolitik The Unfortunate Simplicity of Freedom Digital Democracy 2011 The War-Torn Web Foreign Policy 2018 The Secret Power of Political Data Trusts Overture 2018 Coronavirus: A Digital Governance Emergency of International Concern CIGI Online 2020 How Regulations are Re-Shaping Digital Companies CIGI Online 2019 Coronavirus Crisis Pushes States to Quarantine Online Information Foreign Policy 2020 A Novel, European Act of Data Governance CIGI Online 2020 Digital Sovereignty and it’s Discontents Geopolitics Journal 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613491001222-VVB687X0RYOJSP6HTYCB/Screen+Shot+2021-02-15+at+9.39.15+PM.png Writing - Digital Experimentation, Humanitarian Data Governance + Due Process Ebola: A Big Data Disaster - Privacy, Property, and the Law of Disaster Experimentation Centre for Internet & Society 2016 Do No Harm: A Taxonomy of Challenges of Humanitarian Experimentation The Review of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent 2017 (co-authored with Drs. Kristin Sandvik and Katja Jacobsen) From Principle to Practice: Humanitarian Innovation and Experimentation Stanford Social Innovation Review 2017 (co-authored with Drs. Kristin Sandvik and Katja Jacobsen) From Space to Supply Chains: A Plan for Humanitarian Data Governance Self-Published (support from PRIO) 2019 Artificial Humanitarian Intelligence Overture Global 2019 What Can Data Governance Learn from Humanitarians? CIGI Online 2019 COVID-19 Lessons: Building Disaster-Ready Technologies CIGI Online 2020 A Digital Neutrality of Commission Medium 2022 A humanitarian duty to digital integrity ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613493037086-CEM0E4611VKW9JX7040W/Screen%2BShot%2B2021-02-16%2Bat%2B11.12.33%2BAM.jpg Writing - Digital Contact Tracing + Policy (art by Ben Giles) The Digital Response to the Outbreak of COVID-19, CIGI Online 2020 No, we don’t need an app for this, The New Humanitarian 2020 Contact-tracing apps are political Techstream, Brookings Institute 2020 Hard questions for policy-makers on digital contact tracing First Policy Response 2020 (co-authored with Bianca Wylie) Notification: Apps won’t contain COVID-19 CIGI Online 2020 (co-authored with Bianca Wylie) Building a Mult-Step Plan for Canada’s Long Road Ahead Medium 2020 (co-authored with Bianca Wylie) Post-mortem needed on problems with COVID Alert app Policy Options 2022 (co-authored with Bianca Wylie) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613503287760-GAF54LBAUETOKI8APQ0D/Screen+Shot+2021-02-16+at+2.12.47+PM.png Writing - Access to Justice, Equity + LegalTech The Case for mLegal Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 6, no. 1 (2011): 41–62 Law in the Last-Mile: The Case for Mobile Integration into Legal Services VoxPopLii (2011) Collective Representation and the Last Mile Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 7, no. 1 (2012): 61–64 The Multi-Platform Rule of Law Skoll World Forum 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613506234582-BZ54IF7USES97QACEQCE/Screen+Shot+2021-02-16+at+3.04.58+PM.png Writing - Running an Open Source, Last-Mile, Messaging Technology Business Mobile Technology and the Last-Mile Innovations: Technology, Governance, and Globalization 6, no. 1 (2011): 7-12 (co-authored with Ken Banks and Florence Scialom) #CivicBusiness Medium 2015 Frontline and the Missing Middle Mile OpenSource.com 2015 Your Chief Data Governance Officer Medium 2018 Frontline’s Local Focus FrontlineSMS 2019 Messaging: From Apps to Architecture FrontlineSMS 2020 FrontlineSMS is Closing FrontlineSMS 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6026e742e22fb52d30f0e5ca/1613506916691-YL634W9R47QMWKR4TYMT/Public+Market.jpeg Writing - Toronto, Civic Data Trusts + Sidewalk Expert Testimony, Canadian Civil Liberties Association v. Waterfront Revitalization Corporation 2019 Toronto, Civic Data, and Trust Medium 2018 MIDP: The Data Governance Proposal Medium 2019 A Tale of Two “Smart” Cities Medium 2019 Sidewalk Labs, the Candidate Medium 2019 (co-authored with Bianca Wylie)