Professional sport ecosystem questionnaire

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What types of data are collected on athletes? What is this data used for now? What could it be used for in the future? How valuable is that data to the association, club, team, coach or athlete?

Do you have stories that illustrate the real benefit of collecting data extensively (e.g. injury prevention, performance wins, even medical intervention)? What about stories that illustrate the risks?

What legal or regulatory systems apply to data collection on athletes in your area? How are those systems being applied in practice to data collection and use?

How are issues of data collection and use dealt with across different parts of your organisation (e.g., performance/coaching staff, athletes, HR, legal, etc.), and externally (e.g., player associations, regulatory agencies)?

Thinking about the various data that is collected, what are the levels of access and control by, respectively, athletes, organisations, sport tech vendors, and regulators? What should they be?

What data standards are used? And how could such standards be improved and adopted more widely?

What, if any, risks has your organisation identified with respect to current or anticipated data practices? How are those risks managed? Who has responsibility in your organisation for raising these issues, and what mechanisms exist for dealing with them?

What, if any, data collection or use activities have you seen avoided or stopped because of concerns?

Which external parties have access to data on athletes? How do the athletes gain assurance as to how they use and protect the data (e.g., to prevent sale to third parties)? Do athletes know all the things their data is used for? Is there anything that raises concern about how such external parties use or might use data?

What are the expectations of athletes and other organisations (e.g., broadcasters) with respect to data access? How are these met?

How engaged are athletes in the process of data collection and use? How much do they really know? How do they educate themselves? When do athletes get concerned (e.g., media access)? When do organisations get concerned (e.g., addiction to quantification, injury predictions and concerns and how they are addressed)?

How is consent obtained, and how is the quality of consent assessed? Is consent dealt with by internal policies/procedures, player contracts, ad-hoc consent forms by project, or some other mechanism (or not at all)?

Is there a limit to the data that should be collected? Are there limits on how it should be used? (Think about medical tests, DNA tests, cognitive functioning and mental health tests, very experimental methods/models)

What should happen to data about athletes when they leave a particular club? What about when they leave sport altogether? Who does the data serve, and how is that ensured across various stages of an athlete's career?

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Professional sport ecosystem questionnaire