Abstract
In today network and data-driven societies, connections between ICT
technology and the new practices of corporate philanthropy are innovatively
redefining and reshaping the major characteristics of giving. Together with
the advancement of digital environments, where ‘technological actors’ such
as Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook produce, receive and exchange
large amounts of data, ‘data philanthropy’ has been thought of and proposed
as a theoretical and social movement aimed at fostering knowledge and
information sharing. It encourages, first and foremost, companies to ‘donate’
their own data, so as to create new forms of knowledge, and, secondly,
charities and grant-making organizations to share data about philanthropy.
Although the movement is still under development, and issues it faces –from
privacy to reasons related to business and marketing strategies— are not easy
to solve and they impede changes to the status quo, information flows are
gradually, but radically, proceeding from the private and the third sectors to
civil society, so as to open up the ‘black boxes’ of knowledge. By starting
from the premise of this new digital phenomenon, i.e., big data, this
contribution explores the main ethical, legal and social issues arising in
generating innovative sources of virtual knowledge, creatively mediated by
the web and ICT technology. The analysis posits that the advance of data
philanthropy can provide fertile ground for both a democratic and
participatory rethinking of giving, and the construction of relations between
institutions, industries, non-profit organizations and citizens, as trustworthy
‘bridges of knowledge’ based on solidarity and collaborative commitment.
Titolo tradotto del contributo | [Autom. eng. transl.] Donation as a share. Towards the 'data philanthropy' |
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Lingua originale | Italian |
Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | Una filantropia nuova. Economia, diritto e filosofia per una società digitale collaborativa |
Editor | Monica De Paoli, Giuseppe Manfredi, Angela Silvia Pavesi, Mariachiara Tallacchini, Emanuele Antonio Vendramini |
Pagine | 109-126 |
Numero di pagine | 18 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2017 |
Keywords
- big data
- data philanthropy