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==Initial talking point/question==<br />
*How a technology and/or data and/or datajournalism project could impactfully help social justice challenges in the field of gender politics?<br />
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==Background==<br />
Projects around "percentages-of-women" (in board rooms, in media, in conference speaker line-ups) in various contexts are getting every day more popular. Good, but – there's so much more and time to raise some other issues as well (read: society is much more intersectional than that).<br />
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*How about going beyond gender binary (considering that genders are not only two)?<br />
*How about disparities and difference of privilege even just among women-identified individuals (white women/ women of color, cisgender women / trans women)?<br />
*How about getting some voices way more heard (e.g. trans narrative)? How about responsible data in all this (huge issue, connected to both privacy and safety)?<br />
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Let's get a discussion going, especially if anyone actively works on any of these topics, to discuss, learn and understand how data and/or tech could really be useful to raise an issue/conduct a research/help fuel an action-for-change. Aiming to have impact.<br />
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==Discussion kick-off: points raised==<br />
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There is a lot of technology being built but it is constantly being pushed into communities instead there should be a pull.<br />
There is a strong cultural background in different communities and we must think about it in regards to technology.<br />
For Example:<br />
*In Japan there is a lot of groping and there is this website that allows people to note instances of harassment via geolocation mapping<br />
*In Egypt there was a lot a project called HarassMap where they used Ushahidi's tools to track instances of sexual harassment.<br />
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We must recognize how we use tools are not in a vacuum, but to always ask those questions about how they are used and who it is for?<br />
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Data can often be very dangerous and interpreted wrong- communities should often be connected with the data sets you are working with. It is better to have something grow organically instead of throwing a product into a community.<br />
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==Group work==<br />
*After an initial discussion, the group decided to start brainstorming key elements to be considered when creating responsible data projects aiming to support marginalized communities/ minorities (including abuse reporting).<br />
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*Participants wrote down all sorts of thoughts on post-its, we identified that certain clusters were emerging and started to put them together.<br />
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*Participants highlighted a key factor of the session: all participants were aware of at least some challenges of the topic we were trying to flesh out. So why not using the clusters identified to feed the creation of a toolkit, to be shared with others (especially with individuals and groups who might have not encountered this challenges in their work yet).<br />
*Goal: co-create a useful guideline for whoever works with tech/data projects serving specific communities, using tech and data responsibly and ethically.<br />
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*Identified clusters [please note that the following notes record the work done in the session but not yet represent a post-session re-work of the material. That will come soon!]:<br />
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===Problem Identification===<br />
*Needs to be grounded in a locally identified need<br />
*First understand the problems before jumping into it.<br />
*Identify the voices that need to be heard<br />
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===Stakeholders-Leadership===<br />
*Partnering with community already doing the work<br />
*Self-Awareness of your identities and how they relate to the issue at hand<br />
*Working with certain communities to build the data and think about their access<br />
*Include community partners throughout the whole process<br />
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===Data===<br />
*Data Security<br />
*Privacy<br />
*Thinking about the Data and where it is coming from<br />
*Data is not god<br />
*Validating and Verification of Data<br />
*Data Ownership<br />
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===Methodology===<br />
*Start with clearly defining what problem you are trying to solve<br />
*Working with organizations on the ground- being aware of your privilege<br />
*Asking and listening<br />
*Who are you speaking to? How do we want them to engage?<br />
*History Lesson<br />
*Self-awareness of the history of your identities in relation to the users you’re targeting<br />
*Broaden the idea of what “tech” can be (ie “low-tech” solutions where applicable)<br />
*imagining what success looks like – have a theory of change<br />
*make the final project useful and meaningful to community<br />
*engaging allies<br />
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===Program Management===<br />
*Accessibility for who benefits<br />
*Has there already been legacy projects for what you are working on ?<br />
*Defining what success looks like<br />
*Who created the technology?<br />
*Who is maintaining it?<br />
*Be flexible enough to change the project design to reflect community needs and goals<br />
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===Empowering===<br />
*Success stories<br />
*Providing resources/training if needed so communities have the access to building their own tools<br />
*empowering marginalized people<br />
*how can capacity be left behind when the project is over<br />
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===Intersectionality===<br />
*Intersectional analysis/frame<br />
*being aware of the different cultural backgrounds/narratives<br />
*needs to account for context/culture and access<br />
*Diversity is more than one thing (not just gender, race)<br />
*centering experiences of marginalized folks esp trans women of color<br />
*cultural differences in gender politics<br />
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==New Session Title==<br />
Responsible Data Storytelling<br />
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==Post-session plan==<br />
The group aims to keep working on the toolkit.</div>Vivian