DG-neuro-ICT1: Data Governance in International Neuro-ICT Collaborations Oxford, UK, March 20-21, 2018 |
Conference website | http://dg-neuro-ict.orbit-rri.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dgneuroict1 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 31, 2018 |
Submission deadline | January 31, 2018 |
Introduction
Brain-related conditions and diseases are an immense burden on individuals and health care systems. Neuroscience offers opportunities to address some of these issues. Such research is increasingly based on information and communication technology (ICT), partly because the enormous complexity of the human brain requires large-scale data collection, and partly because human brain research faces various limitations which may be partially overcome through ICT (e.g. through the use of simulation or emulation of brain functions). It is therefore unsurprising that neuroscience research programs and associated ICT tools are diverse and proliferating.
The success of these efforts across neuroscientific research and ICT hinges to a large degree on the question of collaboration. Considering the complexity of the human brain, the efforts required to understand the brain are significant, and necessitate exchange of data between different institutions and across disciplinary boundaries. Scientists frequently have access to data from colleagues, which requires appropriate data-sharing methods in addition to methods of data analysis and interpretation. In other words, the future success of large-scale neuroscience projects will depend on their capacity to share and access data. This, in turn, requires the establishment of data governance principles and practices which will support neuroscience across disciplinary, natural, and cultural boundaries.
Scope of the workshop
Data governance in the context of large collaborative biomedical research projects has not only technical implications but, importantly, also a social and ethical implications. Successful research collaboration requires the ability to transmit data but also the social structure to do so and the ethical and regulatory side to ensure the work is legal and legitimate. This workshop aims to cover all aspects of data governance that need to be considered in order to render collaborative research successful.
The workshop builds on work undertaken by the the Human Brain Project (HBP) which is centrally concerned with data collection, curation, and distribution. This needs to be done in accordance with principles and practices of responsible research and innovation (RRI). The workshop, therefore, also incorporates findings and uses mechanisms of the UK ORBIT Project (Observatory for Responsible Research and Innovation in ICT).
HBP and ORBIT jointly host this two-day workshop to bring together international expertise and cutting-edge research on the topic of data governance in large collaborative neuro-ICT projects. The purpose of the workshop is to clarify current practice, identify obstacles and barriers and propose future ways of organising data governance.
Submission Guidelines
The workshop organisers invite the submission of extended abstracts (up to 1500 words). All abstracts must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
We welcome submissions on any and all disciplinary perspectives on the governance of data in neuroscience and ICT (technical, methodological, cultural, social, philosophical, historical, policy, compliance, etc.), particularly those with an international dimension and those actively engaging with an approach aligned with Responsible Research and Innovation.
List of Topics
Topics to be covered include:
- Principles of data governance
- Obstacles to international collaboration
- Intellectual property
- Specific issues of data governance in neuroscience
- Technical drivers and obstacles
- Cultural aspects of data governance
- Regulation, legislation and compliance
- Misuse
- Issues of interpretation
Publication
All presenters at the workshop will be invited to contribute to a special issue of the ORBIT journal, a fully double blind peer-reviewed open access journal on Responsible Research and Innovation.
Further Information
Venue
The conference will be held at Exeter College at the University of Oxford, UK.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to tyr.fothergill@dmu.ac.uk and bstahl@dmu.ac.uk.