Fiona Smith
@fiona_ph_smith
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Global development, transparency + accountability, data ethics, gigging, photography, quokkas. Alumnus of @ODIHQ, @worldvision & MPP @UniofOxford
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined February 2015
Look who I found! Great to bump into @timdavies in NYC for the launch of #StateOfOpenData. Congratulations for an epic piece of work with @Morchickit @sbwalker61. Proud to be part of this movement with wonderful people
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The Fragmentation of Truth by @zephoria
https://t.co/VghkyiwSb2 - another barn-burner that you have to read to the end.
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Privacy is a justice issue. Low-income Americans are more concerned than their wealthier counterparts about losing control over how their information is collected or used. They’re also more worried about online harassment and identity theft. @mary_madden
https://t.co/j41iQ1GGX3
nytimes.com
When someone who is living paycheck to paycheck falls victim to an online fraud or a breach, the cascade of repercussions can be devastating.
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Compiled by: large, engaged groups of technologists & social scientists who are imagining a more ethical future. Created for: anyone who wants to build a more ethical future. If you have a toolkit for ethical AI or tech-at-large, the #gdep ethics community would love to see it!
.@data4democracy and @PartnershipAI helped compile a list of #AI ethics tools to guide the use of this rapidly evolving technology. Take a look: https://t.co/vd1b15uJgM
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You had me until 'blockchain'..
Oh dear!
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This rightly acknowledges that it's not just @WFP, these are existential #humanitarian issues. When does service design improvement become human experimentation? Do we have the infrastructure to know? Or agree? #openscience #civictech & #AI communities all wrestle with this.
"Without common sense approaches that are centered around #humanitarianprinciples, #DoNoHarm & #dataresponsibility, there is little chance that we can leverage the strength and potential of private sector actors to better serve beneficiaries." More → https://t.co/BpSuzJl2e0
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Planning for meetings with @gatesfoundation in snowy Seattle this week- talking all things #FAIRdata
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If you think Palantir can’t re-identify this data, you’re (a) wrong and (b) don’t understand how this market works. They will apply and sell it well beyond anything @WFP could anticipate. This kind of partnership should be subject to far more scrutiny, and legal action.
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Why you need historians at conferences of the rich and powerful. ‘Stop talking about philanthropy, start talking about taxes’.
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So excited to be involved in this initiative with @CABI_News and @ODIHQ
Very pleased to finally tell everyone about our next big initiative to promote #openscience #FAIRdata & #datamanagement policy and practice in #agriculture
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Gonna keep it 💯: The biggest threats to journalism right now are tech monopolies & concentration of ownership. Healthy democracy *requires* high-quality journalism. W/o a wide range of independent outlets & the revenue to sustain them, our democracy will continue to crumble.
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#Davos is here again, so it’s time for @Oxfam’s new report – here’s what it says. Today's @fp2p
https://t.co/A2PBbptlmd
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Software is written by humans who have bias, the training data is generated by humans with bias -- it's not malicious (in most cases) but it does absolutely exist, @AOC is correct.
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How the fight for computational fairness insulates corporate AI mythology from scrutiny https://t.co/11BaXHevjO Really pumped about this piece I wrote with bias pioneer @HNissenbaum and refined through many convos with @sedyst @UpFromTheCracks @FrankPasquale @thistimeitsmimi ++
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“The level of economic inequality we are witnessing today is nothing short of a calamity” says Gro Harlem Brundtland in her foreword in today’s @Oxfam inequality report: https://t.co/WGoZoACmDl
#FightInequality #BeatPoverty #Wef19
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😆everything that is wrong with Davos-ite types
With #crypto concepts we can use ledger-based technologies to build a scalable internet of trust. Empowering the impoverished requires data. We must relentlessly innovate tracking technologies to mine the world’s natural data resources. #davos #Blockchain #thenewoil
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Explaining marginal taxes to a far-right former Governor: Imagine if you did chores for abuela & she gave you $10. When you got home, you got to keep it, because it’s only $10. Then we taxed the billionaire in town because he’s making tons of money underpaying the townspeople.
Explaining tax rates before Reagan to 5th graders: “Imagine if you did chores for your grandma and she gave you $10. When you got home, your parents took $7 from you.” The students said: “That’s not fair!” Even 5th graders get it.
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I and @RobinLinacre have jointly written a blogpost: we want a data revolution for government focused on user need, skills transformation and fixing the basics. We’d love to hear your views:
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