Domain of One's Own: Reclaim Your Data

Jim Groom A Domain of One's Own is an international initiative in
higher education to give students and faculty more control over
their personal data. The movement started at the University of
Mary Washington in 2012, and has since grown to tens of thousands
of faculty and students across hundreds of universities. The first
part of this presentation (5-10 minutes) will provide a brief
overview of how these Domains projects enable not
only data portability for coursework, but also a
reflective sense of what a digital identity might mean in terms of
privacy and data ownership.   The second part of
this presentation will explore how Domain of One's Own could
provides a powerful example in how higher education could harness
application programming interfaces (APIs) to build a more
user-empowered data ecosystem at universities. The
initial imaginings of this work has already begun at Brigham Young
University in collaboration with Reclaim Hosting, and we will share
a blueprint of what a vision of the Personal API could mean for a
human-centric data future in the realm of education and
beyond.