IARIW-CIGI Conference November 2-3, 2023

IARIW–CIGI CONFERENCE
“The Valuation of Data”
November 2 – 3, 2023, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Preliminary Program (May 10, 2023)

 

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Opening Reception

 

Thursday, November 2, 2023

8:00 AM- 9:00 AM: Registration

 

9:00 AM- 9:15 AM: Opening Remarks

• Catherine Van Rompaey (World Bank and IARIW President)
• Paul Samson (CIGI President)

 

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM: Keynote Address

• Diane Coyle (Cambridge University) – “Why Do We Need to Value Data?”

 

10:00 AM- 11:30 AM: Session 1

 

Session 1: Methodologies of Data Valuation: National Accounts Approaches

Chair: TBA

1. “Toward Data as an Asset in the System of National Accounts” – Proposal

John Mitchell (OECD) Nicola Massarelli Eurostat), Richard Heys (ONS) and Erich Strassner (IMF)

Discussant: TBA

2. “Estimation of Investment in and Stock of Data in the Canadian System of National Accounts” – Proposal

Brenda Bugge (Statistics Canada), Koami Amegble (Statistics Canada) and Amanda Sinclair (Statistics Canada)

Discussant: TBA

3. “On the Measurement of “Data” in Economic Analysis and National Statistics” – Proposal

Michael Wolfson (University of Ottawa)

Discussant: TBA

 

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM: Break

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM: Session 2

 

Session 2: Methodologies of Data Valuation – I

Chair: TBA

1. “Valuing the U.S. Data Economy Using Machine Learning and Online Job Postings”-  Proposal

José Bayoán Santiago Calderón (Bureau of Economic Analysis) and Dylan G Rassier (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board)

Discussant: TBA

2. “Online Platforms’ Creative “Disruption” in Organizational Capital – The Accumulated Information of the Firm: The Depreciation of the Value of Data” – Proposal

Wendy C.Y. Li (Moon Economics Institute) and Peter J Chi (University of California)

Discussant: TBA

3. “Data Enclaves: Valuing Google’s Data Assets” – Proposal

Kean Birch (York University)

Discussant: TBA

 

1:15 PM- 2:15 PM: Lunch

2:15 PM-3:15 PM: Session 3

 

Session 3: Methodologies of Data Valuation – II

Chair: TBA

1. “Unpacking the Valuation of Data in the Data-Driven Economy” – Proposal

Dan Ciuriak (Centre for International Governance Innovation)

Discussant: TBA

2. “An Inquiry into the Production of Data and How it Creates Value” – Proposal

David Eliot (University of Ottawa and The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation (PhD Scholar))

Discussant: TBA

 

3:15 PM – 4:45 PM: Session 4

 

Session 4: Methodologies of Data Valuation: Special Topics

Chair: TBA

1. “The Value of Statistics: Progress Report on the ONS-UNECE Task Force” – Proposal

Richard Heys (ONS)

Discussant: TBA

2. “Private Funding of Free Data: A Theoretical Framework”- Proposal

Rachel Harris Soloveichik (Bureau of Economic Analysis)

Discussant: TBA

3. “Global Distribution of Economic Values of Cross-Border Data Flows” – Proposal

Wendy C.Y. Li (Moon Economics Institute)

Discussant: TBA

 

4:45 PM – 5:00 PM: Break

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Session 5

 

Session 5: Economic Perspectives on the Value of Data and Other Intangibles

Chair: TBA

1. “Intangibles, Market Capitalisation, and the Measurement of Data Value – A Study on Select Indian Companies in Chemical Industry” – Proposal

Ratan Kumar Ghosal (University of Calcutta)

Discussant: TBA

2. “Data, Intangible Capital, and Economic Growth in Canada”- Proposal

Wulong Gu (Statistics Canada) and Ryan Macdonald (Statistics Canada)

Discussant: TBA

 

6:45 PM – 7:30 PM: Reception (Delta Hotel)

7:30 PM: Conference Dinner

• Dinner Speaker: TBA

Friday, November 3, 2023

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Session 6

 

Session 6: Valuation of Health Data 

Chair: TBA

1. “Accounting for the Worth of Health Data: Database Shareholding and its Effects on Data Valuation and Governance” – Proposal

Danny Lämmerhirt (TU Dortmund)

Discussant: TBA

2. “Un-working Data in the Health Tech Sector: From Data Quality to Data Value” – Proposal

Natalia-Rozalia Avlona (University of Copenhagen)

Discussant: TBA

3. “Flipping the Script: A Buyers’ Perspective on the Value of Data” – Proposal

Jennifer Webster (Pfizer), Beverly Buckta (Pfizer), Richard Urena (Pfizer) and Joseph Donaldson (Pfizer)

Discussant: TBA

 

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM: Break

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM: Session 7

 

Session 7: Personal and Platform Data 

Chair: TBA

1. “Mapping the Relational amidst Consent Permissions in Personal Data Stores: Constructing (and Valuing) the (Data) Future(s)” – Proposal

Georgia Meyer (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))

Discussant: TBA

2. “Data as Representation” – Proposal

Sean Martin McDonald (CIGI) and Ben Gansky (Arizona State University)

Discussant: TBA

3. “Measuring the Value of Network Effects from Digital Platforms” – Proposal

John Lourenze S Poquiz (Kings College London)

Discussant: TBA

 

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM: Lunch

1:15 PM – 2:45 PM: Session 9

 

Session 9: Data Governance 

Chair: TBA

1. “Better Governance to Unleash the Value of Data: China’s Practice of Building a Data Trading System in the Global Context”- Proposal

Alex He (Centre for International Governance Innovation) and Rebecca Arcesati (Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS))

Discussant: TBA

2.  “Governance Framework for a FAIR and Care Health Synthetic Data Ecosystem’”- Proposal

Helen H Chen (University of Waterloo, School of Public Health Sciences), Maura Grossman (University of Waterloo, Cheriton School of Computer Science) and Shu-feng Tsao (University of Waterloo, School of Public Health Sciences)

Discussant: TBA

3. “Valuation amidst Anonymization: Case Studies from the Individual to the Commons and Back Again using Viljoen’s Axes of Horizontal Data Relations” – Proposal

Georgia Meyer (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE))

Discussant: TBA

 

2:45 PM – 3:00 PM: Break

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM: Session 10

 

Session 10: Policy Implications of the Valuation of Data 

Chair: TBA

1. “Data Valuation for Knowledge Sharing and Decision Making” – Proposal  

Gabriel Kulomba Simbila (National Bureau of Statistics of Tanzania)

Discussant: TBA

2. “Increasing the Value in Use of Open Government Data in Small Island Developing Countries” – Proposal

Lila Rao (University of the West Indies) and Maurice McNaughton (University of the West Indies)

Discussant: TBA

 

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Closing Panel on Policy Issues Related to the Valuation of Data

• Panellists TBA 

6:30 PM: Informal Dinner

 

Saturday, November 4, 2023

8:00 AM – 7:00 PM

• Excursion to Niagara Falls and possibly Alexander Graham Bell Family Homestead National Historical site in Brantford.