Data governance for public-interest systems
How should public institutions govern data about people who cannot meaningfully consent, and what does that require of the systems built on it?
The governance of education and children's data decides what the technology is allowed to become.
Education systems now generate detailed records about children, held across ministries, schools and private platforms. The governance questions are not downstream of the technical ones; they determine which systems are buildable at all.
I worked on this inside UNESCO, on teacher development and education data governance, and contributed to the UNESCO writing team for the Broadband Commission's work on data for learning. I continue it on UNICEF Innocenti's expert advisory group on the governance of children's data.
Selected work
- PolicyFederated learning for children's data: encoding trust in education systemsAuthor, UNICEF Innocenti, Office of Strategy and Evidence2025
- ReportThe Transformative Potential of Data for LearningWriting team, Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development2023
- ReportThe Transformative Potential of Data for Learning, interim reportWriting team, Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development2022
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