CIG Ottawa Branch

 

Big Data: Policy Issues, Data Sharing, Privacy and Access

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Dr Tracey P. Lauriault

Dr Tracey P. Lauriault

Assistant Professor, Critical Media and Big Data Communication Studies

School of Journalism and Communication

Carleton University

 

Dr. Lauriault is an Assistant Professor of Critical Media and Big Data in the School of Journalism and Communication, Communication Studies, at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

 

She is also a research Associate with the following two institutions:

1. The Programmable City Project, under the Directorship of Professor Rob Kitchin. It is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and based at the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA), Maynooth University, Republic of Ireland.

2. The Geomatics and CartographicResearch Centre, under the Directorship of Professor D. R. Fraser Taylor, in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada

 

Areas of Expertise

• Critical data studies

• Small, big and spatial data policy

• Data infrastructures

• Preservation and archiving of data

• Open data, open government, crowdsourcing

• Evidence-informed decision-making

• Community Wi-Fi.