About the Panels

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A Panel is a group of people that talk about important ideas.

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We are creating 2 Panels that will give advice on the data asset.

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People on a Panel will provide support to the National Disability Data Asset Council.

We call it the Council.

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The Council will make sure people are using the data asset in the right way.

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One of the Panels is the Disability Data Development Scoping Panel.

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Scoping is when you look into an idea to:

  • understand it better
  • find out what you need to do.

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The other Panel is the Disability-informed Ethical Oversight Panel.

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Being ethical is about doing the right thing and having strong values.

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Our values are the things:

  • we believe
  • that are important to us.

The Disability Data Development Scoping Panel

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This Panel will give ideas for what other Panels could work on until the end of 2025.

For example, this Panel could give ideas about:

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  • what data is missing

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  • what data to focus on first.

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Then they will write a report about these ideas.

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Members of the Disability Data Development Scoping Panel will meet online.

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The meetings will:

  • start in June 2024
  • end in October 2024.

The Panel will have 10 members, including:

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  • 4 researchers

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  • 6 people with disability.

The Disability-informed Ethical Oversight Panel

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This Panel will look at how people plan to use data in the data asset.

The data will be about people with disability.

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This Panel will look at plans and tell us if they think these plans are ethical.

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Members of this Panel will meet online.

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The meetings will:

  • start from June 2024
  • end in June 2025.

The Panel will have 5 members, including people with disability who know a lot about:

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  • how to use data in an ethical way for research

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  • human rights.

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Human rights are rules about how everybody should be treated:

  • fairly
  • equally.