Data Reframed:
Teaching holistic data practices for a more equitable world
Hello!
We’re busy reviewing applications to join our expanding steering committee, and still enjoying the afterglow from our New York City launch party.
Meanwhile here’s our January newsletter and be sure to sign up to be notified of our spring data equity workshop.
Spring workshop
Want to join our next data equity workshop?
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Host a workshop! Fund a workshop!
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!
❝Our Leading Equitable Data Practices workshops are great for your school and, most importantly, your students,❞ says Yohance Barrett, data equity facilitator.
Colleges & universities:
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.
What people are saying
“CGI partners with LA Tech4Good to offer workshops on data justice that provide our clients with skills and tools to begin applying ethics and equity to their data practices. The impact of our sessions has resulted in a 73% increase in participants’ confidence in the knowledge and application of data equity.
As one of the world’s largest providers of IT and business consulting solutions, CGI takes proactive steps to collect and analyze data through a lens of justice, equity, and ethics when developing innovative solutions for clients. One of those steps is our ongoing collaboration with LA Tech4Good – thanks for your partnership.
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“The workshop series was an eye opener for me at a time when I was the only data person at my organization. It helped me better speak to stakeholders by providing me with new language to communicate my data pressure points more effectively. Most importantly, it connected me with like-minded practitioners that validated my personal experiences and inspired me with their impassioned commitment to data equity.”
Read more nice things on our Wall of Love here
“Equity is both an outcome and a process.”
— Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, Data Feminism