LA Tech4Good is now Data Reframed!
Teaching holistic data practices for a more equitable world
You’re invited to our LA launch party
Los Angeles
Thursday November 21
6:30 - 8:30 p
Suehiro DTLA
400 S Main St #102
LA CA 90013
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.
Thank you for your ongoing support and commitment to equitable data practices. We look forward to the journey ahead!
Nov 5, 2024 – ❝When I started getting involved with *formerly* LA Tech4Good, I knew it was only a matter of time before it dropped the "LA". Excited for us to relaunch as Data Reframed (because we're reframing the way you look at data, obviously).
And it could not be more relevant a time to do this. As what we share and what gets collected gets used in so many ways to influence the world around us, we have a responsibility to look at the data from perspectives that we typically do not look at, especially for those marginalized populations in our world. (aka this is not a coincidence that I wait until Election Day to post about this)
Join us as we celebrate this moment for our organization and bring in this new era. If you're in the LA or NY areas, we hope to get to see some of your faces!❞
Cindy Lin, Steering Committee member
Save the date for our NYC launch party
New York City
Thursday January 30
7 - 9 pm
Venue tbd
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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