Episode 3: Mark Hereward

The interviewee in this episode is Mark Hereward. The interviewer is Briana Wipf, and the pair discuss data governance and ethics, particularly the tension between privacy and specificity. For more about Hereward’s projects with UNICEF, visit www.RD4C.org, and to read the report Progress for Every Child, visit https://www.unicef.org/reports/progress-for-every-child-in-the-sdg-era-2019. This episode was recorded on November 26, 2021.   This season of the Information Ecosystems podcast is being produced in affiliation with the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh. The website for the Information Ecosystems project is https://infoeco.hcommons.org/, and the website for the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh is https://yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/.    The Information Ecosystems project seeks to advance a deeply powerful understanding of where data comes from and how it is used, setting the present moment within a century-long history of information supply and its power-laden consequences. At a moment when societies are in urgent need of guidance to navigate rapidly shifting digital terrain, we are coming together to build a deep understanding of the social and political life of data. 

The interviewee in this episode is Mark Hereward. The interviewer is Briana Wipf, and the pair discuss data governance and ethics, particularly the tension between privacy and specificity. For more about Hereward’s projects with UNICEF, visit www.RD4C.org, and to read the report Progress for Every Child, visit https://www.unicef.org/reports/progress-for-every-child-in-the-sdg-era-2019. This episode was recorded on November 26, 2021.   This season of the Information Ecosystems podcast is being produced in affiliation with the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh. The website for the Information Ecosystems project is https://infoeco.hcommons.org/, and the website for the Year of Data and Society at the University of Pittsburgh is https://yearofdataandsociety.pitt.edu/.    The Information Ecosystems project seeks to advance a deeply powerful understanding of where data comes from and how it is used, setting the present moment within a century-long history of information supply and its power-laden consequences. At a moment when societies are in urgent need of guidance to navigate rapidly shifting digital terrain, we are coming together to build a deep understanding of the social and political life of data.