How Can Social Workers Participate in Big Data Governance? The Third-Party Perspective on Big Data Governance

Abstract

The existing research on ethical issues in big data governance mainly focuses on organizational analysis, stakeholder analysis, industrial supply chain, and other fragmented management analysis, and pays less attention to the participation of non-profit organizations as third parties, which makes it difficult to solve the integration and systematic social problems of big data governance. The research takes the third-party social work service as the analytical framework. First, the ethical problems of big data governance are attributed to the decentralized production and intensive use of data and the separation of producers and users. Then it demonstrates and analyzes the multi-dimensional isomorphism of social work as a third party and big data governance in regards to work objects, ethical connotation, and technical requirements. Then, according to the professional advantages of social work, it is proposed that social workers should assume the roles of educators, coordinators, organizers, and advocates, and promote the data-rich represented by enterprises, hospitals, and governments to actively protect the rights and interests of the data-poor, to achieve a win-win situation for individuals, groups, and society in big data governance.