About the Course
The Data Tank in collaboration with Fondazione Cariplo, and as part of the Data Stewards Academy, completed, in the words of participants, a ‘unique’ one-month hybrid Data Stewardship Bootcamp in Milan. The bootcamp brought together and trained 23 participants from across civil society, social enterprises, and local and regional public and non-profit entities. Covering the entire Data Stewards Canvas via a step-by-step approach, the participants worked with several use-cases starting with identifying the demand for data and all the way to measuring impact for data-driven projects or services. The bootcamp combined lectures, including by affiliated guest faculty, with expert-led field visits to data driven institutions active in Milan. With three days in person in Milan and three online sessions, the bootcamp brought together local data and AI voices, but also managed to tap into global ones representing different contexts.
Objectives
- Empower Italian researchers and practitioners to responsibly reuse private sector and non-traditional data.
- Develop a pipeline of data reuse and research projects and partnerships.
- Solidify and contextualize case study findings, making them applicable for broader learning and community impact.
- Create a national and international community of practice around responsible data reuse and stewardship.
Course Components
- In Depth Seminars: Provided by Dr. Stefaan Verhulst
- Expert Lectures: From Italian and international leaders in data stewardship and data re-use for AI.
- Data Reuse Assignments and Creation a Pipeline of Projects: Use of the Data Stewards Canvas to develop actionable data reuse strategies that will be compiled together and create a pipeline of projects that Cariplo can partner with (from a data perspective).
- Field Visits to: Accurat where the team from Systematica and Transform Transport presented some use-cases on conducting research and executing projects to inform sustainable mobility practices in Italy and internationally. We also visited the Laboratorio di Simulazione Urbana Fausto Curti part of POLIMI and were introduced to a range of data collection exercises that they had implemented on city planning. Finally, we had a cultural visit at Gallerie D'Italia.