BlackComputeHER 2018

Technology & Social Behavior: How Data and Open Source Is Used to Impacts Social Justice Movements

Abstract: A quick look into data, data visualization and open source communities are pushing social justice movements forward and enabling change.

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1. Technology & Social Behavior How Data and Open Source are used to Impact Social Justice Movements Rosario Robinson @rosariorobinson Systers Open Source Contributor AnitaB.org Black Women in Computing Committee Social Justice Movement (Re-entry, Criminal Justice Reform)
2. What is Open Source? • Anyone can inspect, modify and enhance • Public access • Share • Collaborate • Rapid Prototyping • Transparency • Community-Oriented
3. What is Social Justice? • Justice • Social / Society • Relationship between society and individuals – Fair – Just
4. How Data Impacts Social Justice Movements
8. Basic Healthcare
10. DATA – DATA – DATA Is data readily available to every citizen?
11. Where is public data? Department of Justice justice.gov Census Bureau census.gov
12. Can you get data that is NOT public?
13. FOIA >> Freedom of Information Act
14. DATA VISUALIZATION How can you read RAW data?
15. Candela Resonant Labs Palladio
16. DATA JUSTICE Why is Data Visualization Important in Social Change/Social Justice Movements and How can it help the movement?
17. Presidential Election Predictions Image Credit: FiveThirtyEight.com
20. How does Visualization Help? Visual Representation Raw Data
21. Workshop, Saturday 4/7/2018 • OpenSource Hack for Social Justice • 9:45am – 12:00pm, Room Salon VI • Agenda – Target data Arrests – Representative from Census Bureau • View sources from Census Bureau and DOJ • Learn how to pull data from your community • View geography, demographics, voting – Take raw data and use visualization tools
22. HOPE! Will Data Really Create Social Change?
23. Naomi Wilder 11 year old black girl speaks for black girls “Who’s stories don’t make the front page news…”
24. Resources • Mission-Launch – Rebuilding Re-entry – Github: Missionlaunch – Repo: clean-slate • Vera Institute – Github: vera-institute – Repo: In Our Backyards Symposium
25. Thank You! • You can reach me at – rosario.robinson@gmail.com – GitHub: rosariorobinson – @rosariorobinson on Twitter