LA Tech4Good is now Data Reframed!
Teaching responsible data for a more equitable world
Woo hoo!
We’re excited to announce that LA Tech4Good is now officially Data Reframed! This change has been a long time coming, inspired by the active participation and enthusiasm we've seen from our partners and workshop participants across the country. It’s time to drop geography from our name and continue forward with our mission.
The name Data Reframed reflects our mission to teach equitable data practices, encouraging practitioners to reframe data in ways that support justice, ethics and community.
Join us in celebrating this exciting milestone! We’re planning events in LA and NYC within the next few months, and we’d love to see you there. If you’re interested in attending or getting involved, please sign up here.
Thank you for your ongoing support and commitment to equitable data practices. We look forward to the journey ahead!
Our workshops over the summer
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Recent programs have been customized for nonprofit and higher education communities – let us know if we can do the same for your people!
Our public workshops bring together passionate and talented individuals from across the country. By funding a workshop, you can make data equity best practices available to them!
Fall product discovery
September 19, 2024 – Our steering committee is focusing this fall on product discovery, with the intention of building off of four years of data equity workshops and iterating in ways that will continue to provide leadership to data activists. Data is input and output for how we parse the world, where best practices in design justice & data equity remain fundamental, including with genAI. There exists a pressing need to set standards for data equity and its implementation.
Through unique workshops and practical curriculum, we have developed consolidated thinking, expertise and credibility around data equity and ethics. We can help you and your organization understand if decisions and outcomes are equitable and ethical. We offer tools to do that and share the experiences of our community in responsible data implementation.
Reach out if you are interested in hands-on data ethics education and watch for updates in the near future.
❝Our Leading Equitable Data Practices workshops are great for your school and, most importantly, your students,❞ says Yohance Barrett, data equity facilitator.
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About us and our programs
Learn how to use data responsibly for a more equitable world
We invite anyone who works with data to our signature Leading Equitable Data Practices workshops, where you’ll gain practical knowledge and tools to infuse equity and ethics into your work, and become a more active participant in the data equity community.
❝ Our programs train people to think about data in its respective context. We’re not teaching you math, statistics, or technical foundations, we’re training you to think from the lens of social justice and design justice as you use data and technology as a tool to further equity and the mission of your organization.
❝ The curriculum and exercises in our workshop are meant to elucidate that data is a product of our current systems and that there are opportunities and necessity to collect and use data in a manner that is grounded in concepts of equity and ethics.❞
–Eva Sachar, our Director of Advocacy
Our mission
Our mission is to foster social change by teaching equitable and ethical data practices
We believe data can be actively employed to mitigate injustices and build a more equitable world. Data must be employed with an equity lens, as a key tool in our toolbox, as we work for racial justice, gender equality, equitable healthcare, and more.
We also advocate for professional data norms rooted in equity, ethics, and data sovereignty, and the concept of data justice, contributing to social change through technology.
Our data principles
Data is about people
Nearly everything facet of modern life has been digitized, but ultimately data is a measure of people, individuals and community that can’t be reduced to numbers, algorithms and data.
Data is power
Mountains of data are collected and generated each day – and this impacts lives. Shouldn’t people own and control the data they generate – the data about them?
Data equity prompts accountability
Equity practices require action and accountability, encompass data privacy considerations, and require transparency while protecting anonymity.
Technological change outpaces regulation
Regulation lags far behind the rate of change in technology, so those creating data projects generally must rely on their own efforts to ensure that people are not harmed through unregulated processes.
Data equity enables informed action
The collection and analysis of data around inclusivity, bias, and inequity can be useful in counteracting these same problems, and implementing more equitable data practices support these efforts.
“Equity is both an outcome and a process.”
— Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism