Gloucestershire County Council’s Commitment to Ethical Data Stewardship
The right kind of access to data is vital in tackling the big challenges we face in society; from earlier detection and treatment of disease to reducing pollution in urban spaces. However, data and related technologies can also cause harm, including automated decisions that require a human element or inadvertently contribute and embed existing biases and/or inequalities.
Gloucestershire County Council’s commitment to ethical data stewardship is a responsible, rights-preserving, and participatory concept which aims to unlock the economic and societal value of data and simultaneously uphold the rights of individuals and communities to participate in decisions relating to the collection, management, and use of their data.