Maria is at #CPDPLatAm2023.

Yesterday she ran a session testing a card game designed to support conversations about collective and participatory data governance. It was great to be joined by an enthusiastic and engaged group of people, and much fun was had.

If you'd like to read more about the game we're developing with Jessica Metheringham, from Dissent Games, you can see our write up of the first public play at #DataJustice2023 here: http://connectedbydata.org/blog/2023/07/07/governance-game-playtest

#DataJustice2023 closing plenary highlighting 'moments of solidarity' between different parts of society (e.g. around A-Level Algorithm when letter from head of Eton, student grassroots campaigns and protests, legal cases all aligned) as critical points of collective power.

Also need to build bridges with those 'inside tech' who are concerned about current directions, and want change.

No one strategy, but many elements in a movement for change.

#DataJustice2023 Karine Getelet and Sandrine Lambert reporting on their work exploring Council of Europe Consultations on AI.

Highlighting concurrent consultation mechanisms on AI creating confusion/loss of coherence in civil society engagement: capacity limited civil society orgs had to choose where to engage.

Significant for upcoming period with *lots* more different AI governance engagement: highlights need to make engagement legible so citizens and CSOs know what to engage with.

#DataJustice2023 Linnet Taylor discussing the Global Data Justice project conclusions, on operationalising a new norm for data: https://globaldatajustice.org/ and the challenges of introducing a people- and community-centric norm of data governance in discussion at UCTAD, WTO or G20.

"Data stewardship as it is getting operationalised at the highest level, is being used to pull data and control of data away from communities. We need to challenge that."