Systems, stories and stewardship - rethinking the mental models behind data and AI
Join us for a webinar that goes beyond frameworks and technical fixes, sharing emerging insights from Elgon Social Research’s research and practice based programme on data stewardship and AI governance, developed in partnership with the Ada Lovelace Institute and the Civic Data Cooperative.
We’ll explore:
How mental models shape the way institutions and organisations understand data, value communities, and make decisions — and why challenging these default mental models is essential for equitable data governance. We will also explore how they shape and influence AI.
How to create new, emerging narratives that unlock change and shift dominant paradigms of commercial extraction and control, understanding systems, power, behaviour, and institutional culture in the data governance and AI landscape.
How to create new visions, and new paradigms for systems-level stewardship of data and AI, informed by international case studies and grounded in social dynamics.
How data systems can reflect and reinforce different ways of knowing about the world, organising involvement and coordinating across countries - and how to critically re-orient such systems with redistributive and regenerative sensibilities.
You’ll hear emerging best practices, contribute to resources and toolkits shaped and informed by Elgon's research interviews on global best practice - designed for real-world systems change, and help refine approaches that join the dots between technical data stewardship with the lived realities of people and communities.
This is not just another conversation about data governance — it’s a chance to rethink the assumptions, habits and structures that shape how data is stewarded, and to co-create new pathways for change.
Speakers: Reema Patel Elgon Social Research and ESRC Digital Good Network Policy Engagement Lead, Jonathan Gray, author of ‘Public Data Cultures’, King’s College London, Silvana Fumega, Global Data Barometer, and Emily Rempel Research Fellow at the Liverpool Civic Data Cooperative.