Workshop: Societal Impact, Ethics, and Big-Data-Enabled Social Sciences

观众概述该奖项将支持美国参加经济合作与发展组织(OECD)的全球科学论坛。GSF为经合组织成员国的高级科学政策官员提供了相互协商的场所。它就需要国际合作的高度优先的科学政策问题得出结论，并确定在重大科学事业上进行合作的机会。这项奖励将支持两个私人投资机构参与与GSF专家的会议，为一个暂定名称为“使用新形式数据进行社会研究的道德”的国际会议做准备。这次会议将在芝加哥举行，它将把美国科学家和经合组织的专家聚集在一起，为在研究中合乎道德地使用大数据制定一个国际框架。大数据集的分析和应用，也被称为大数据研究，是NSF社会、行为和经济科学局(SBE)支持的一个重要研究领域。会议将以全体会议、分组会议和海报会议的形式组织。它将把科学家、政策制定者、行业、资助机构和公共利益团体聚集在一起，他们对解决SBE科学中大数据的道德使用问题感兴趣。在许多对社会至关重要的领域，包括健康、金融和科学，大数据的重要性与日俱增。本次会议的成果将帮助研究人员确定研究伦理中的关键问题，并探索与在研究中使用大数据的伦理相关的国际框架。正在规划的会议将推进大数据研究伦理和隐私保护的SBE子领域，通过制定一个前瞻性框架，说明如何克服大数据和研究伦理之间的权衡，在不牺牲隐私权或违反研究伦理的情况下有效地挖掘大数据的潜力。这些目标特别具有挑战性，因为实现这些目标本身就需要跨学科的方法，而且它们还需要刚刚开始开发的预见性方法(场景开发)。拟议的活动将有助于提高洞察力，并为重新利用新形式的数据提供一个框架。它们将为有关数据重复使用的政策制定和科学实践提供信息，并为对相关数据使用情景进行伦理分析提供基础。拟议的努力将为在SBE研究中使用大数据建立一个国际可接受的指导方针框架，因此，它不仅将对数据相关研究产生深远影响，而且将对与数据相关的治理和政策产生深远影响。

General Audience Summary This award will support US participation in the Global Science Forum (GSF) of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). GSF provides a venue for mutual consultation among senior science policy officials of OECD member countries. It produces findings on high-priority science-policy issues that require international co-operation, and identifies opportunities for collaboration on major scientific undertakings. This award will support the participation of two PIs in planning meetings with GSF experts for an international conference tentatively entitled "The Ethics of Using New Forms of Data for Social Research." The conference is to be held in Chicago, and it will bring US scientists together with OECD experts to develop an international framework for the ethical use of big data in research. The analysis and application of large datasets, also known as big data research, is an important area of research supported by NSF's Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE). The conference will be organized as plenary, breakout and poster sessions. It will bring together scientists, policy makers, industry, funding agencies, and public interest groups who have an interest in addressing the ethical use of big data in the SBE sciences. Big data is growing in importance for many areas critical to society, including health, finance and science. The outputs of this conference will help researchers identify the key issues in research ethics and explore an international framework related to the ethics of the use of big data in research.Technical Summary The conference being planned will advance the SBE subfields of Research Ethics and Privacy Protection in Big Data by developing a forward-looking framework on how to overcome the tradeoff between big data and research ethics to effectively pursue the potential of big data without sacrificing privacy rights or violating research ethics. These goals are particularly challenging because satisfying them will require inherently interdisciplinary approaches, and they will require anticipatory approaches (scenario development), which are just starting to be developed. The proposed activities will serve to improve insights and to provide a framework for approaching the reuse of new forms of data. They will inform policy making and scientific practice with regards to data reuse, as well as provide a foundation for conducting ethical analysis of relevant data use scenarios. The proposed effort will result in a framework for internationally acceptable guidelines for the use of big data in SBE research, and it will thereby have profound implications not only for data-related research but also for data-related governance and policies.