Hacking Politics: Civic Data Solidarity Panel
with Burak Arikan, artist, founder of Graph Commons
Sinduja Rangarajan, data reporter, Reveal, The Center for Investigative Reporting
Jin Zhu, artist, member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
Increasingly, a new generation of civil society initiatives is generating data on issues from human rights violations to Internet governance, from labor crimes to environmental justice. While many of the issues are interrelated, the data generated by separate civil society organizations, civic data, are rarely used in relation to one another. Civic Data Solidarity aims to build a protocol to make civic data interoperable across civil society projects and tools.
Artist Burak Arikan will present his white paper on Civic Data Solidarity and is joined by two case study collaborators, Sinduja Rangarajan, data reporter, Reveal, The Center for Investigative Reporting on diversity in Silicon Valley and Jin Zhu, artist, member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project on environmental racism on Treasure Island. Together they will explore how new networks can be created to contribute to solidarity among civil society organizations.
This event is part of Hacking Politics, a symposium brought to you by the UC Berkeley Center for New Media, SFMOMA's Public Knowledge Initiative, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley Law School, in collaboration with For Freedoms' 50 State Initiative.
Find out more about the symposium here.