[ONLINE] - Ethics of Data Archives: Crowdsourcing Hyperlocal NYC Data Workshop

Come share your crowdsourcing story and hear others!

Archives hold the public repository for future historical knowledge but they also bring up ethical questions about who does the keeping and what datasets are missing. During the pandemic and social unrest, we each began to track information with attention to our immediate location. Hyperlocal communities formed around a neighborhood, a store, city block, a building, or maybe even a floor in your apartment complex.

How did you use shared spreadsheets and cloud documents? What did you need to know that was not available elsewhere? What do you want to know about your hyperlocal area and why? How should we archive, preserve, and share this information? We’ll reflect where we might want less data and where we might need more sovereign data.

This community discussion and workshop will consider the ethics of data archiving with a focus on hyperlocal data. We will start with a brief introduction to data justice and see images from Mimi Onuoha's art piece on the “Library of Missing Datasets," before breaking into small group discussions. We'll also hear about successful examples including: the NYC Neighborhood Food Resource Guides that battles food insecurity and BetaNYC data for shoppers with health vulnerabilities. Then, together we will create a list of new data sets we would like to see and think about how information patterns of our daily lives should be preserved.

We encourage participants to come to the workshop with a specific story or example of hyperlocal digital information sharing.
Speakers:

Anne L. Washington Ph.D., @DatapolicyProf
Assistant Professor of Data Policy, Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities at New York University’s Steinhardt School

Matt Bui Ph.D., @matthew_bui
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University
Faculty Fellow, NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology

Jonathan Chin, @NYCFoodPolicy
Interim Chief Technology Officer at NYC Food Policy Center Food

Moderator:

Karen Bannan, @KarenBannan
Director of Communications, Public Interest Technology