SXSW 2020
Data-Activism for Social Justice
Description:
Social justice organizations are working to empower people impacted by data-illuminated disparities to take control of the accompanying narrative. If used strategically, data can provide a common language upon which community members and representatives of institutions that served them can meet and increase shared knowledge about the problems, causes and work together to create equitable change and increased awareness.
In this session, we'll explore the possibilities of collaboration and data-activism, while acknowledging the harm imposed on marginalized communities of Color as in over-policing, threat score indexes, predictive algorithms, education injustice, healthcare injustice and racialized hi-tech gerrymandering.
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Takeaways
- What are the possibilities for lawmakers, researchers & techies to engage with activists & the community in response to the harms created by Big Data?
- What are the trends in using data-activism for social justice?
- Is justice really being actualized through the power of data?
Speakers
- Jameila Styles, President, MEASURE
- Yeshimabet Milner, Executive Director, Data For Black Lives
- Renee Mitchell, President, The American Society of Evidence Based Policing
- Rodric Crooks, Assistant Professor, UC Irvine
Organizer
Jameila Styles, President, Measure
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