Program for workshop in Trondheim, 13-14 December 2018 Today, discrimination is a high-tech enterprise.Ģ018 - Guest participant - Digitalization and social life: Theories, concepts, methods More recent trends like predictive policing, risk-based sentencing, and predatory lending are troubling variations on the same theme. Redlining was a data-driven enterprise that resulted in the systematic exclusion of Black communities from key financial services. Tools like statistical modeling, data visualization, and crowd-sourcing, in the right hands, are powerful instruments for fighting bias, building progressive movements, and promoting civic engagement.īut history tells a different story, one in which data is too often wielded as an instrument of oppression, reinforcing inequality and perpetuating injustice. These new data systems have tremendous potential to empower communities of color. Since the advent of computing, big data and algorithms have penetrated virtually every aspect of our social and economic lives. Talk to Chat App Group Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University (January)Ģ019 - Voluntary Job - Data for Black Lives is a group of activists, organizers, and mathematicians committed to the mission of using data science to create concrete and measurable change in the lives of Black people. What can we learn from the disparity between the episodes? How the tool can be explored as an asset for privacy-enabled conversations, and at the same time protect users from misinformation campaigns? What possibilities are being leveraged?Ģ019 - Invited talk: Whatsapp for activism and social mobilization
Before being weaponized, the chat app was used for civic engagement in the biggest strike Brazil ever saw - and other occasions of collective resistance. In Brazil, the misinformation campaigns took place mainly on WhatsApp, a tool that evokes trust and intimacy among users. The "fake news" phenomenon poisoned the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, following a worldwide trend. What can we learn from these two very different use cases of WhatsApp? Before being used to share misinformation, WhatsApp, a tool that evokes trust and intimacy among Brazilian users, was used for civic engagement in the biggest strike Brazil has ever seen. candidate, Sérgio Barbosa, on lessons learned from the use of WhatsApp during the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections. Location: 1 Brattle, Suite 470, Cambridge, MA.Ī conversation with digital HKS senior fellow, Yasodara Córdova, and Brazilian scholar and Ph.D. 2019 - Invited talk co-presented with Yaso Córdovaĭate: Monday, February 4, 2019, 3:00pm to 4:00pm