Data Ethics and Tech Education

The goal of this presentation is to engage with all the core stakeholders in the data economy – Educators, Programmers and Academia to get the conversation going because tech ethics is not an opportunity to engage in highly academic discussions that are very interesting to have but ultimately do not encourage change

Pythonistas, being on the fore front, to discuss and share knowledge on the key ethics, compliance and privacy issues, to find proactive and sustainable solutions that can be integrated into a shipped product

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1. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem Ethics in Tech Education Teaching Tech is Hard. So is Teaching Ethics. By Ken Mbuki
2. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem To promote knowledge sharing and stimulate discussions on practical approaches of solving ethical dilemmas in the Data Economy. The Goal of this Presentation
3. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem Data Analytics, Ethics & Governance Professional. Ken Mbuki Ken is an experienced data and analytics professional in East Africa Region. He specializes in empowering organizations to develop and execute ethical data strategies. He has previously worked with Savannah Informatics, Resolution Insurance, CIP-Potato Center among others. Currently, Ken works as a Business Intelligence Analyst and a Data Ethics Champion at Moringa School. linkedin.com/in/kenmbuki twitter.com/ken_mbuki
4. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem What to Expect 1. Why should We/I care about Data Ethics? 2. Assessment of our Ethical Curriculum 3. What can we do to bring change?
5. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem 1 Why Should We Care About Data Ethics?
6. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem 2.5 quintillion records of new data created daily. (as of Jan 2022) Source: Domo - Data Never Sleeps 8.0
7. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem
8. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem a branch of ethics that studies and evaluates moral problems related to data generation, data algorithms and corresponding data practices in order to formulate and support morally good solutions. Data Ethics is… SOURCE: What is data ethics? Philosophical Transactions. Luciano Floridi and Mariarosaria Taddeo
9. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem Quick Survey https://bit.ly/3LUNT3e
10. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem 2 Tech Ethics Crisis
11. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem Ethics Education Gap
12. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem Trolley Problem
13. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem Source: CS Curriculum Kenya - Ethics Review - By Ken Mbuki Assessment of our Ethical Curriculum
14. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem Re-Shape: A Method to Teach Data Ethics for Data Science Education DOI: ACM Digital Library: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376251
15. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem What can we do to change bring change? 3
16. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem The Zen of Python By Tim Peters
17. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem On Data Generation #7. Readability Counts
18. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem
19. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem “Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future. Doing that requires moral imagination, and that’s something only humans can provide. We have to explicitly embed better values into our algorithms, creating Big Data models that follow our ethical lead. Sometimes that will mean putting fairness ahead of profit.” ― Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
20. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem #3/4. Simple is better than Complex; Complex is better than complicated On Data Algorithms
21. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem
22. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem #15. Special Cases aren't special enough to break the rules. On Data Practices
23. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem The Problem with Metrics
24. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem
25. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem ü Learn, Engage, Discuss ü Data Ethics Teams …and Three things you can personally do…
26. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem Build …FATE (Fair, Accountable, Transparent and Ethical) ML Algorithms
27. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem “If you work in tech and you’re not thinking about ethics, you’re bad at your job” - Ken Mbuki -
28. 3RD ANNUAL PYCON SUMMIT KE Biggest Gathering For People & Organisations Interested In The Python Programming Language & Its Ecosystem THANK YOU