Bernard Sabiti (Senior Programme Officer at Development Research and Training - DRT)

The Big Data in the Global South International Workshop was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 16 and 17, 2015. The meeting was hosted by the Institute for Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS), with the support from Open Society Foundations (OSF) and British Embassy Brasilia.

The event was a closed multistakeholder roundtable to discuss and map international examples of Big Data uses and regulation, both by private and public sectors, in order to develop practical strategies to promote adoption of harmonized rules by different actors. The debates brought together key representatives from government, civil society, the business sector and academia from Brazil, India, United Kingdom and several other countries.

The event aimed to facilitate opportunities for cooperation and build networks in the field. The event also mapped existing initiatives involving the use of Big Data and presented the results of a joint research initiative conducted by ITS and the Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) in this field.

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