A Data Ethics Framework for Agriculture

Project dates (estimated):

Sep 2020 – Aug 2024

Name of the PhD student:

Aditya Singh

Supervisors:

Kirsteen Shields – Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security
Jon Hillier - Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security

Project aims:

This research investigates models of collective data governance in agricultural ecosystems, evaluating them from a lens of power and inclusion, and their broader implications for responses to the climate crisis. 

Disciplines and subfields engaged:

  • Philosophy

  • Law

  • Agriculture and Food Security

  • Critical Data Studies

Research Themes:

  • Ethics and Politics of Data

    • Ethics of Data Ownership, Governance and Stewardship

    • Data Justice and Data Violence

  • Emerging Technology, Health and Flourishing

    • Emerging Tech and Community Flourishing

Related outputs: 

  • Aditya Singh and Divij Joshi, The Histories, Practices and Policies of Community Data Governance in the Global South, as part of the Unskewing the Data Value Chain project funded by IT4Change, 2023 🔗

  • Presented with Bhargavi Ganesh on responsibility in data and AI supply chains focusing on the role of data brokers on the Mobilising Technomoral Knowledge panel at the Society for Philosophy & Technology Conference 2023 in Toyko .

  • Smart Cities in India: Of Data Governance and Democratic Deficits, Aditya Singh and Divij Joshi, Bot Populi, 2021 🔗

  • Existentially Adverse Outcomes from AI in the Global South, Aditya Singh and Daniel Vale, Medium, 2021 🔗

  • Siri, Talk Dirty to Me : The Ethics of Conversational AI, Aditya Singh, Trilateral Research: Ethical AI, 2020 🔗

  • Unpacking Policy Moves for Sovereign Control of Data in India, Arindrajit Basu, Elonnai Hickok and Aditya Singh, CyberBRICS, 2019 🔗

PhD ResearchSteven ScottEthics and Politics of Data, Tech and Flourishing