Smart Places Masterclass - Building Trust when Creating Smart Places with Theresa Anderson and Dorotea Baljević
NSW Smart Places Summit Lead Up Series
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Building Trust when Creating Smart Places with Theresa Anderson and Dorotea Baljević
Building “smart places” calls upon us to work with a complex and ever-evolving mix of people, technologies and data. Using data smartly in these settings will mean dealing with situations where information will inevitably remain incomplete, uncertain and dynamic. Thriving in and adapting to change in such contexts will therefore involve a capacity for imaginative problem solving and problem finding as much as it involves technical know-how. Given that many “smart” deployments of data technologies for place-making are part of initiatives aimed at supporting the social resilience, health and wellbeing of a community, there is also an imperative to remain sensitised to how data is generated, used and stored in these situations. Despite all the potential benefits from increased application of data technologies for place-making, there are inevitable (and critical) data limitations that must give us pause as we continue to expand the deployment of smart technologies.
This Masterclass introduces participants to four critical operating principles and six keystone facets for building the trusted partnerships necessary to design connected communities that are ‘smart’, sustainable and compassionate. Human experience remains richer than what can be codified within any AI or data technologies at our disposal. How do we remain sensitised to issues of data justice that will help us respond to public concerns related to the deployment and use of data sharing platforms? Who and what might be getting overlooked in data-informed place-making strategies? How do we gain and maintain public trust in the midst of the inevitable uncertainties that accompany deployments of emerging technologies? How might we create context where human as well as machine intelligence is maximised?
As part of this interactive Masterclass, participants will have the opportunity to begin adapting the principles shared in this session to contexts directly relevant to their own practices. Subsequent Masterclasses in this series will then build on these insights.
Speakers
Theresa uses creative, compassionate and contemplative practices to help communities build better digital and data futures. Building consensus through gaining and maintaining a community’s trust and implementing good practice to advance socially-just data policies is embedded in her work. For more than 20 years, her award-winning work as an educator and researcher has engaged with the ever-evolving relationship between people and emerging technologies when working with data and making decisions. A social informaticist with a PhD in Information Science, she served as inaugural Director and Associate Professor of the Master of Data Science & Innovation program at UTS from 2014-2018, leading development of a uniquely transdisciplinary and human-centred curriculum that continues to prepare graduates for the demands of the data science fields.
Now working as a freelance consultant within her own company (Connecting Stones Consulting) Theresa contributes to government, industry and NGO efforts advancing socially-just data policies, building processes for gaining and maintaining a community’s trust in data/AI use. She is Vice Chair of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) NSW Branch Executive Committee and sits on NSW Government's inaugural Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee. Theresa also contributes to international initiatives related to data sharing, serving as Project Editor for JTC 1/SC 32/WG 6, an expert on the Resilient and Healthy Cities Working Group for the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and as a Research Fellow for the University of Illinois Information School. She also sits on the Advisory Board for Resilience Brokers, an international organisation using systems thinking to unlock value and to improve the climate resilience of cities and communities around the world. Prior to her academic career, Theresa worked as a political research analyst in research centres and think tanks and served as a diplomat.
Dorotea Baljevic has been in the IT industry for over 10 years building systems, capability and autonomous teams with data across Cisco, Westpac and Reserve Bank of Australia. Currently she is building the international Data Science Practice at Lendlease.
Dorotea has degrees in Information Technology, Master of Business in Technology Management and a Master of Data Science and Innovation. As part of her Data Science degree, she spent a year abroad studying Computational Neuroscience at Humboldt Universität in Berlin. During this time an avid interest in the organic processes of Decision Making was formed. She is exploring this further in her role at Lendlease and her PhD at the University of Technology, Sydney with a focus on ethical decision making.
Dorotea embraces organic technologies using a humanistic approach – nature informing technical design and ultimately man working with machine. Data should consequently support and inform the narrative in all we do. Dorotea wants to ensure this story is trusted, relevant and enables the right outcomes.
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