anticipating ChangeCamp Ottawa, July 17th
sorry to be the one who 'queers' the open data narrative... read on for explanation of my use of explicative... i may or may have not used the term correctly...
excerpt from article:
"One big point of discussion was how to deal with the embedded biopolitics behind data sources like US Census data that we use in our maps — as 3Cs, we often talk about how we ‘queer’ data or statistics by pulling map stories out of them that they weren’t intended for. But data sources often come so tightly bound up with state politics, white supremacist racial policies, definitions of family structure, etc., that queering them might require more conscious work than we always put in".
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Still wondering, how will open data improve, sustain, and save lives? Perhaps the need parameters of the poor and disenfranchised offer the most exciting and complex design challenges? In fact, are these folks not the most system-dependent, and if the data we derive is system-based, then the poor as client-centrality-user-node represent a complete collapsing-upon of all public data necessary for their navigation, edification, dare i say, social salvation? with the rapid availability of directions, instructions, codes, laws, perhaps timing (i.e. speed of an app) is not the design challenge it once was. maybe narrative enters back in, from spin to form. The poor as client-centrality-user-node can for design's sake be assumed as ignorant, and if that's too hard to swallow, ingest newcomer from East Africa. Without knowledge of the systems, their attempt to 'go downtown' or 'to the office place' perhaps needn't be executed so quickly. Seems in there, there's room for storytelling, to insert the codes, and laws, mores, and local quirks that make any of this viable, and indeed politically relevant, or edifying, as it might were.
"Ignorance coheres Open Data"
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