Open Data Commons in the age of AI and Big Data
AI is bringing forth new types of capture, appropriation and enclosure of data that limits the realisation of its collective societal value.
Ramya Chandrasekhar
Ramya Chandrasekhar is a lawyer and a researcher with the Center for Internet and Society, CNRS, Paris. Her research focusses on legal strategies and commons-based governance frameworks for the ‘opening up’ of non-government data. She focusses specifically on platform data for research, health data, and re-use of publicly-available data for AI training. Ramya supports the Open Knowledge Foundation on our initiatives to update the Open Definition and to encourage uptake of open licenses that embed collective decision-making and sustainability in data generation and sharing. Previously, she has worked with the Berkeley Centre for Law and Technology, and the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University.