As modern life increasingly moves online, our ability to understand the impact of the Internet on society has grown critically dependent upon the benevolence of tech platforms. To date, corporate data sharing programs have largely failed to meet the needs of the research community aimed at this problem. In this talk, the shortcomings of previous corporate data sharing initiatives and identify requirements that must be met by future systems will be outlined. In addition, Mozilla Rally, a data platform that addresses some of these system requirements will be presented. The talk will focus on the following properties of Mozilla Rally: user data donation and concomitant consent architectures, alternative corporate governance models, and community-led software development and release practices. The talk concludes with discussion of lessons learned during the creation of Rally, as well as possible future directions that similar efforts could take. Bio: Rebecca Weiss is an award-wi
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Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard are pleased to announce the four winners and the two finalists of the 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards. The Lukas Prizes, established in 1998 and consisting of the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Mark Lynton History Prize, honor the best in American nonfiction writing.The awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at Columbia Journalism School.