Webinar 51: Can we put a price on data? Understanding Data in the Global Economy

US President Donald Trump thinks it’s perfectly appropriate to punish Canada for its trade surplus with the US. But Trump is only thinking about goods. As Professor, Dr. Kean Birch notes, corporations such as Alphabet, Meta, Amazon and so on have been extracting billions of dollars’ worth of data assets from Canada for years — and they will continue to do so unless the two nations find ways to value data and make the exchange of data more transparent. Please join us for a discussion on how firms value data, the implications for cross-border data flows, and  how policymakers could bring greater sunshine and accountability into the market for data.

Speaker: 

Dr. Kean Birch, Professor, York University & Director, Institute for Technoscience & Society

Birch is the author of the book Data Enclaves, an article on data wealth funds, and op- eds and articles on data value.

Moderator:

Dr. Susan Aaronson, Founder and Director, Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub. co-PI, Governance, NSF Trustworthy AI Institute for Law and Society

Please register to receive your Zoom link and/or access to the Online Event Page to attend.

Questions? Contact Dr. Susan Aaronson, saaronso@gwu.edu