| APrIGF 2022 Session Proposal Submission Form | |||||||||||||
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| Part 1 - Lead Organizer | |||||||||||||
| Contact Person | |||||||||||||
| Ms. Debora Christine | |||||||||||||
| Organization / Affiliation (Please state "Individual" if appropriate) * | |||||||||||||
| Tifa Foundation | |||||||||||||
| Designation | |||||||||||||
| Project Manager for Data Policy and Governance | |||||||||||||
| Gender | |||||||||||||
| Female | |||||||||||||
| Economy of Residence | |||||||||||||
| Indonesia | |||||||||||||
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| Civil Society | |||||||||||||
| Part 2 - Session Proposal | |||||||||||||
| Session Title | |||||||||||||
| Advancing data justice in (post-)pandemic data governance: perspectives from Southeast Asia | |||||||||||||
| Session Format | |||||||||||||
| Panel Discussion | |||||||||||||
| Where do you plan to organize your session? | |||||||||||||
| Online only (with onsite facilitator who will help with questions or comments from the floor) | |||||||||||||
| Specific Issues for Discussion | |||||||||||||
| The COVID-19 crisis has called for immediate policy intervention at an unprecedented scale. Governments across Southeast Asia have turned to digital solutions for managing the COVID-19 pandemic, including deploying digital contact tracing technologies and accelerating digital transformation in the public sector. However, the extensive use and accelerated development of emerging technologies, particularly those that rely on the collection and use of personal data, have heightened concerns about data privacy, data security, and overall data governance. Many countries in Southeast Asia had created regulations to manage these processes in order to serve public goals such as efficiency, effectiveness, equity, and safety, but their responses to the COVID-19 epidemic have resulted in certain policy adjustments or exceptions. Would temporary measures enacted during the pandemic have long-term effects on the governance of personal data? Through this session, we will explore the extent to which the pandemic and digital contact tracing have led to policy change in digital data governance in several Southeast Asian countries, if at all, and the potential implications of such change for a post-COVID world. We argue that the differences in e-government maturity, institutional contexts, and histories will lead to distinct post-COVID states, each with a different level of change in digital data governance and socio-political consequences. We will use a 'data justice' perspective to frame the discussion surrounding the impacts of (post-)pandemic data governance, therefore focusing on fairness in the governance of data and data technologies and the results of such governance. | |||||||||||||
| Describe the Relevance of Your Session to APrIGF | |||||||||||||
| The topic discussed in the session cuts across the themes of Trust and Inclusion. Investigating how governments approach the governance of digital data and data technologies during the pandemic is critical to ensuring that data governance regimes are working towards just and societally beneficial outcomes without compromising on people's safety, security, and privacy. This investigation will also contribute to the understanding of the broader implications of the digital contact tracing applications and current data governance for post-COVID data governance and data-driven governance. | |||||||||||||
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| Moderators & Speakers Info (Please complete where possible) | |||||||||||||
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| Please explain the rationale for choosing each of the above contributors to the session. | |||||||||||||
| The speakers have expertise in the topic of the governance of digital data and digital technologies in their respective fields. Tifa Foundation, DigitalReach, and FMA have each conducted an in-depth study on the topic, i.e., changes in digital data governance and data-driven governance enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ms. Debora Irene Christine will present findings from Indonesia. Mr. Jamael Jacob will share findings from the Philippines. Ms. Sutawan "Ploy" Chanprasert will provide a regional overview of the topic. H.E. Yuyun Wahyuningrum is expected to provide responses to the presentations and discuss how the AICHR can promote the importance of a rights-respecting and just post-pandemic data-driven governance to AMS governments. | |||||||||||||
| Please declare if you have any potential conflict of interest with the Program Committee 2022. | |||||||||||||
| No | |||||||||||||
| Are you or other session contributors planning to apply for the APrIGF Fellowship Program 2022? | |||||||||||||
| No | |||||||||||||
| Brief Summary of Your Session | |||||||||||||
| The session began by discussing changes in digital data governance and data-driven governance enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia and the Philippines, particularly policies which facilitate increased datafication (i.e., the technological trend turning many aspects of our life into data which is subsequently transferred into information realized as a new form of value). It then discussed data injustices that occurred in both countries due to the pandemic data-driven governance and anticipated implications of COVID-19 pandemic data governance on the post-COVID situation. The session continued with a discussion on the current development of the implementation of digital contact tracing technologies in Southeast Asia and its impacts on people. The session concluded with an exploration of ASEAN mechanisms that might serve as potential avenues for advocating pandemic data justice in Southeast Asia. | |||||||||||||
| Substantive Summary of the Key Issues Raised and the Discussion | |||||||||||||
| The turn to datafication and digital technologies to manage the COVID-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia amid the region's inadequate personal data protection and data governance policies has amplified existing problems of digital technology and justice. These include the digital divide and other accessibility issues, various privacy, security, and confidentiality risks, the thinness of the legitimacy of technological intervention, and the lack of participation of intended beneficiaries in the design of digital technology. The concept of data justice has facilitated further interrogation of the societal implications of pandemic data-driven governance. Common data injustices include loss of autonomy over personal data handling, discrimination, misrepresentation in data, unfair distribution of (supposedly) benefits of data sharing, and privacy violation. | |||||||||||||
| Conclusions and Suggestions of Way Forward | |||||||||||||
| To realize a rights-respecting and just post-pandemic data-driven governance, it's crucial to: - Put in place better data governance regulation and oversight - Enhance the institutional capacity of public institutions governing public data - Implement privacy impact assessment prior to the mass deployment of digital data technology - Clearly define the role of private companies in the development and use of data technologies - Raise the issue of (post-)pandemic data governance in Southeast Asia to governments of ASEAN member states - Strengthen the collaboration of CSOs across the region for more impactful data justice advocacy |
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| Gender Balance in Moderators/Speakers (Please fill in numbers) | |||||||||||||
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| How were gender perspectives, equality, inclusion or empowerment discussed? Please provide details and context. | |||||||||||||
| As the session centered on the data justice concept in unpacking the impact of pandemic data-driven governance in Southeast Asia, the discussion explored who’s invisible in pandemic data, who are mistreated due to their visibility in pandemic data, and who does not have control over the collection and use of their data. The findings discussed, for example, revealed that people who lack digital literacy are usually the most adversely impacted by the immense use of digital technology during the pandemic, women and gender minorities are usually the most targeted by harassment and verbal abuse when data reveals them to be COVID-positive, and the less digitally-connected are usually the most adversely impacted by their lack of representation in digital data. | |||||||||||||
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