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Empowering citizens through data

How do we bring the data economy back under democratic control by building alternative digital platforms that give citizens control over their own data?

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Francesca Bria

Commissioner of Digital Technology and Innovation at City of Barcelona听

Francesca听Bria听is the Commissioner of Digital Technology and Innovation for the City of Barcelona and leads the DECODE project on data sovereignty in Europe. As Senior Programme Lead at innovation foundation Nesta, she led EU D-CENT, the biggest European project on digital democracy and DSI4EU, an EU-wide effort promoting digital social innovation. Francesca was listed in Forbes Magazine鈥檚 Top 50 Women in Tech.

Jaideep Gupte

Principal Investigator on Smart Data for Inclusive Cities听

Dr听Jaideep Gupte听is the Principal Investigator on Smart Data for Inclusive Cities funded by the European Commission. He is Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, at the University of Sussex, where his research interrogates urban violence and wellbeing. Jaideep is also interested in using GIS/GPS-aided local data to understand material, temporal and political aspects of urban informality.

This event,听in partnership with the British Library, is part of the听Innovation and the Welfare State series, a dynamic new lecture series that explores how we can deliver public value through innovation. The series brings world-leading thinkers to debate how we can rethink healthcare, green growth, public access to knowledge and new forms of data ownership as part of the 21st-century welfare state.