Data Governance for Sharing Smart City Data: Lessons from Sidewalk Toronto

Data governance for data sharing – particularly where some or all of the data are sourced from human activity – raises issues of ownership, privacy, ethics and even sovereignty.

This presentation organized by the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and supported by Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montreal (CIRM) examines these issues with a particular focus on the Urban Data Trust proposed in Sidewalk Labs’ Master Innovation Development Plan for Toronto’s Quayside Development.

The conference will be held in French and English, and a light snack will be offered! To attend, RSVP on the CIRM’s website.

About the speaker

Dr. Teresa Scassa is the Canada Research Chair in Information Law and Policy at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. She is Chair of the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council, member of the Digital Strategy Advisory Panel for Waterfront Toronto, and member of the Canadian Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence. She is a member of the GEOTHINK research partnership, and has written widely in the areas of intellectual property law, law and technology, and privacy. Teresa Scassa is also a senior fellow with CIGI’s International Law Research Program.