Creating a Culture of Data Consciousness with Endangered Data Week

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[ Session Name ] Creating a Culture of Data Consciousness with Endangered Data Week [ Primary Space ] Openness [ Secondary Space ] Decentralisation

[ Submitter's Name ] Jason Heppler [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] University of Nebraska at Omaha [ Submitter's GitHub ] @hepplerj

[ Other Facilitator 1's Name ] Sarah Melton

[ Other Facilitator 2's Name ] Brandon Locke

[ Other Facilitator 3's Name ] Rachel Mattson

What will happen in your session?

Endangered Data Week (EDW) is a project that helps communities collect, maintain, and use data for good. Our community is especially interested in helping people protect and preserve “endangered” data -- data in danger of being deleted, repressed, mishandled, or lost due to social, technical, or political issues. In this session, we’ll share a scenario and dataset (inspired by real endangered data) with participants and invite them to problem solve how they might save and steward that data away from erasure or misuse. We’ll use participants’ responses to set up a closing discussion about how all of us can help our communities work for better data consciousness, civic literacy, and government transparency.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Attendees will:

Understand what “endangered data” means and why it should be protected from erasure and misuse.
Collaborate to develop a way to save data and use it for good through scenario-based role-play and discussion.
Develop greater senses of data and risk consciousness, civic literacy, and the value and characteristics of government transparency.
Leave with ways to connect their communities and datasets with EDW and allied projects.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Large paper pad (or markerboard), post-it notes, markers, projector

Time needed

90 mins