Please join the Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance on Tuesday, May 10th at 10 AM Pacific, for a talk with Anu Masso, visiting scholar from TalTech. At this event co-sponsored by Stanford University Libraries, Anu Masso will be introducing an interdisciplinary approach to data migration. 

About the session:
Anu Masso's research during the Global Digital Governance Fellowship at Stanford University contributes to further developing the research framework of data migration – the social transformations related to data technologies moving across societies and (state) borders. An example of data migration is the artificial intelligence solution Ubenwa, developed in Canada based on data collected in Mexico and tested and implemented in Nigeria (to prevent neonatal asphyxia). She seeks to answer the questions: What changes in governance are needed to enable the relocation of data technologies? What transformations will take place in societies if such relocation succeeds or, conversely, fails?
 
Anu Masso's public talk at Stanford, "Understanding Data Migration: A Social Transformation Approach", hosted by Stanford's Program on Geopolitics, Technology, and Governance, will introduce an interdisciplinary approach to data migration, combining concepts from human geography and migrations studies, sociology, and social transformations, and interdisciplinary data studies. This approach strives to investigate and provide new knowledge of what is happening as data technologies travel across different social contexts. The presentation exemplifies the problem and potential theoretical and methodological cornerstones of data migration with an array of original empirical studies.
 
Anu Masso, currently a Global Digital Governance Fellow at Stanford University, ​​is an associate professor of big data in social sciences at Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech). She grounded at TalTech the DataLab in 2018 after her post-doctoral studies within Marie Curie Fellowship at ETH Zürich. Her research focuses on (critical) big data studies, social transformations, and spatial mobilities; she is also known for her extensive work on social science methods and methodologies. Her publications include articles in leading peer-reviewed journals, e.g., Social Networks; New Media and Society; Information, Communication & Society, Information Systems Frontiers, and Population, Space and Place.

Both in-person and virtual (via Zoom) options will be offered.

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This event is part of Global Conversations, a new series of talks, lectures, and seminars focusing on the benefits and fragility of freedom. The series is co-sponsored by Stanford Libraries and Vabamu.