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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Unpacking the Valuation of Data in the Data-Driven Economy” – Proposal
Dan Ciuriak (Centre for International Governance Innovation)
Discussant: TBA
- “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
- “The Value of Statistics: Progress Report on the ONS-UNECE Task Force” – Proposal
Richard Heys (ONS)
Discussant: TBA
- “Private Funding of Free Data: A Theoretical Framework”- Proposal
Rachel Harris Soloveichik (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
Discussant: TBA
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Accounting for the Worth of Health Data: Database Shareholding and its Effects on Data Valuation and Governance” – Proposal
Danny Lämmerhirt (TU Dortmund)
Discussant: TBA
- “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
- “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
- “Data as Representation” – Proposal
Sean Martin McDonald (CIGI) and Ben Gansky (Arizona State University)
Discussant: TBA
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “Data Valuation for Knowledge Sharing and Decision Making” – Proposal
Gabriel Kulomba Simbila (National Bureau of Statistics of Tanzania)
Discussant: TBA
- “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.
Program Committee:
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- Diane Coyle (Co-Chair, Professor at the University of Cambridge) – Bio
- Bob Fay (Co-Chair, Managing Director at CIGI) – Bio
- Alison Gillwald (Executive Director of Research ICT Africa) –Bio
- Richard Heys (Deputy Director at the ONS) – Bio
- Wendy Li (Executive Director of Moon Economics Institute) – Bio
- Marshall Reinsdorf (Former Senior Economist of the IMF) – Bio
- Carolina Rossini (Director of Partnership and Research at Datasphere Initiative) – Bio
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