Exploring Data Altruism as Data Donation: A Review of Concepts, Actors and Objectives

Dwayne Ansah*, Iryna Susha

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper reviews data altruism in the emerging academic literature by collecting and analyzing conceptually similar terms, identifying key actors, and delineating the objectives of general interest underlying this novel form of voluntary data sharing. Drawing from a wide array of disciplines including computer science, social science, law, and medicine and bioethics, we discover frequent comparisons with the notions of data donation, data crowdsourcing, data philanthropy, and data solidarity. In our observations of current definitions and understandings of data altruism and these related terms, we draw attention to analyzing their salient similarities and differences. Our analysis of actors and roles illustrates a wide variety of players envisioned to participate in data altruism. Our examination of different types of data discussed in the literature suggests the data altruism value chain proposition is largely promissory, with limited empirical evidence supporting specified objectives of general interest. This review contributes to a refined understanding of data altruism as a formal ‘data donation’ institutionalization process in the European digital space and highlights its implications for future research.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationElectronic Participation - 16th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2024, Proceedings
EditorsMarius Rohde Johannessen, Csaba Csáki, Lieselot Danneels, Sara Hofmann, Thomas Lampoltshammer, Peter Parycek, Gerhard Schwabe, Efthimios Tambouris, Jolien Ubacht
PublisherSpringer
Pages179-193
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-031-70804-6
ISBN (Print)978-3-031-70803-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Aug 2024
Event16th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2024 - Ghent, Belgium
Duration: 3 Sept 20245 Sept 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14891 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2024
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityGhent
Period3/09/245/09/24

Keywords

  • data altruism
  • data donation
  • data for good
  • data sharing
  • EU strategy for data

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