Ethics Underpinning Data Policy in Crisis Situations

In pursuing resilient societal ecosystems, crisis data management should consider ethical governance throughout its full lifecycle. The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Sciences paved the way for ethical considerations in crisis data policies by internationally defined shared values and principles for...

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Main Authors: Perihan Elif Ekmekci, Lili Zhang, Francis P. Crawley
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Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://account.datascience.codata.org/index.php/up-j-dsj/article/view/1771
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description In pursuing resilient societal ecosystems, crisis data management should consider ethical governance throughout its full lifecycle. The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Sciences paved the way for ethical considerations in crisis data policies by internationally defined shared values and principles for Open Science. Against this background, this paper identified key ethical concerns regarding crisis data policies during different emergency stages. It extensively analyzed ethical considerations during crisis data management, such as the seamless, trustworthy, and interoperable data flow, the dilemma and reciprocal interaction between right bases and utilitarian approaches, and possible ways of mapping Open Science core values into crisis data ethics. Providing crisis data ethics governance strategies in AI scenarios further validated effective data actions for AI adoptions in emergencies, hoping to showcase crisis data management highlighting ethical concerns. Future envisions address the ethical framework adhering to UNESCO’s Open Science principles and human rights to be developed for better data governance and other priorities to ensure a sustained, trustworthy, and fair ecosystem for efficient crisis data policies.
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spelling doaj-art-ff19f4adf331449aa95ef74de4b119bb2025-02-11T05:32:15ZengUbiquity PressData Science Journal1683-14702025-01-01244410.5334/dsj-2025-0041771Ethics Underpinning Data Policy in Crisis SituationsPerihan Elif Ekmekci0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6592-2960Lili Zhang1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1847-6683Francis P. Crawley2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6893-5916Faculty of Medicine, TOBB UniversityComputer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, BeijingCODATA International Data Policy Committee, LeuvenIn pursuing resilient societal ecosystems, crisis data management should consider ethical governance throughout its full lifecycle. The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Sciences paved the way for ethical considerations in crisis data policies by internationally defined shared values and principles for Open Science. Against this background, this paper identified key ethical concerns regarding crisis data policies during different emergency stages. It extensively analyzed ethical considerations during crisis data management, such as the seamless, trustworthy, and interoperable data flow, the dilemma and reciprocal interaction between right bases and utilitarian approaches, and possible ways of mapping Open Science core values into crisis data ethics. Providing crisis data ethics governance strategies in AI scenarios further validated effective data actions for AI adoptions in emergencies, hoping to showcase crisis data management highlighting ethical concerns. Future envisions address the ethical framework adhering to UNESCO’s Open Science principles and human rights to be developed for better data governance and other priorities to ensure a sustained, trustworthy, and fair ecosystem for efficient crisis data policies.https://account.datascience.codata.org/index.php/up-j-dsj/article/view/1771ethicsdata ethicscrisis data policyopen sciencecrisis data management
spellingShingle Perihan Elif Ekmekci
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title Ethics Underpinning Data Policy in Crisis Situations
title_full Ethics Underpinning Data Policy in Crisis Situations
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title_short Ethics Underpinning Data Policy in Crisis Situations
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open science
crisis data management
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