Sara Bannerman

Canada Research Chair in Communication Policy and Governance, Associate Professor of Communication Studies , McMaster University

Sara Bannerman, Canada Research Chair in Communication Policy and Governance, is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at McMaster University in Canada.  She researches and teaches on communication policy and governance and directs McMaster’s Communications Governance Observatory.  

Dr. Bannerman has published three books: Canadian Communication Policy and Law (Canadian Scholars, 2020), International Copyright and Access to Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and The Struggle for Canadian Copyright: Imperialism to Internationalism, 1842-1971 (UBC Press, 2013).

She has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on communication policy, privacy, international copyright, and other topics in new media, traditional media, and communications theory in journals such as Communication Theory, New Political Economy, the Canadian Journal of Communication, Futures, and Information, Communication & Society.

Amanda Clarke

Associate Professor and Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair, Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration

Amanda Clarke is an Associate Professor and Public Affairs Research Excellence Chair at Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration. Her research explores digital era public management, public data governance and government-citizen relations. She is author of Opening the Government of Canada: The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age and a research fellow with the Canada School of Public Service. Follow her work on Twitter @ae_clarke

Benjamin Fung

Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, Professor of Information Studies, McGill University

Benjamin Fung is the Canada Research Chair in Data Mining for Cybersecurity, Professor of Information Studies at McGill University, and Associate Editor of Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (SCS) and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE). Collaborating closely with the national defense, law enforcement, transportation, and healthcare sectors, he has published over 130 refereed articles that span across the research forums of data mining, machine learning, privacy protection, and cybersecurity with over 10,000 citations. His data mining works in crime investigation and authorship analysis have been widely reported by media, including New York Times, BBC, CBC, etc. Benjamin is a licensed professional engineer in software engineering. See his research website http://dmas.lab.mcgill.ca/fung for more information. 

Federica Fusi

Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration, University of Illinois Chicago

Federica Fusi, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Administration, University of Illinois Chicago. Her research provides insights to policymakers and public managers facing new challenges in emerging fields such as data sharing, open government data, and technology use in the workplace. Currently, she is investigating data sharing and open government data practices in US state and local governments and technology-related stress among public employees. She is also the co-PI on an NSF-grant investigating data sharing perceptions and behaviors among scientists involved in COVID-19 research.

Angela Orasch

Senior Policy and Technology Advisor, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

Angela Orasch is a PhD candidate in Political Science at McMaster University and a Senior Policy and Technology Advisor with the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario. Her academic research examines the political economy of surveillance technology in cities within Canada and the United States. She has published peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on privacy, technology, and digital governance and has taught undergraduate courses in Urban Politics.

Isabel Wagner

Associate Professor in Computer Science, DeMontfort University

Isabel Wagner is an Associate Professor in Computer Science with DeMontfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom. Her research interests are in privacy and transparency, particularly metrics to quantify the effectiveness of privacy protections and privacy-enhancing technologies in smart cities, genomics, vehicular networks, and smart grids. She is also interested in web measurement to create transparency for corporate surveillance systems. Her new book “Auditing Corporate Surveillance
Systems: Research Methods for Greater Transparency” will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. She is a senior member of ACM and IEEE.