Session 4: Data & knowledge: ownership, gathering, treatment and use of data, market expansion and commercialization

Chaired by Katerini Storeng, University of Oslo

Susan Erikson, Simon Fraser University, Righteous Use? Why big data scientists demanded private cell phone data during the West African ebola pandemic

Mary F.E. Ebeling, Drexel University, Tapping the lakes, mining the oceans: Private accumulation through public dispossession

Sridhar Venkatapuram, King’s College London, The fairness of changing human destinies using data

Discussant: Sonja Kittelsen, University of Oslo