Technology & Social Behavior: How Data and Open Source Is Used to Impacts Social Justice Movements Abstract: A quick look into data, data visualization and open source communities are pushing social justice movements forward and enabling change.

1. Technology &
Social Behavior
How Data and Open Source are used to
Impact Social Justice Movements
Rosario Robinson @rosariorobinson
Systers
Open Source Contributor
AnitaB.org
Black Women in Computing Committee
Social Justice Movement (Re-entry, Criminal Justice Reform)

2. What is Open Source?
• Anyone can inspect, modify and enhance
• Public access
• Share
• Collaborate
• Rapid Prototyping
• Transparency
• Community-Oriented

3. What is Social Justice?
• Justice
• Social / Society
• Relationship between society and
individuals
– Fair
– Just

4. How Data Impacts Social Justice Movements

8. Basic Healthcare

10. DATA – DATA – DATA
Is data readily available to every citizen?

11. Where is public data?
Department of Justice
justice.gov
Census Bureau
census.gov

12. Can you get data that is NOT
public?

13. FOIA >> Freedom of Information Act

14. DATA VISUALIZATION
How can you read RAW data?

15. Candela Resonant Labs
Palladio

16. DATA JUSTICE
Why is Data Visualization Important in Social Change/Social
Justice Movements and How can it help the movement?

17. Presidential
Election
Predictions
Image Credit: FiveThirtyEight.com

20. How does Visualization Help?
Visual
Representation
Raw Data

21. Workshop, Saturday 4/7/2018
• OpenSource Hack for Social Justice
• 9:45am – 12:00pm, Room Salon VI
• Agenda
– Target data Arrests
– Representative from Census Bureau
• View sources from Census Bureau and DOJ
• Learn how to pull data from your community
• View geography, demographics, voting
– Take raw data and use visualization tools

22. HOPE!
Will Data Really Create Social Change?

23. Naomi Wilder
11 year old black girl
speaks for black girls
“Who’s stories don’t make
the front page news…”

24. Resources
• Mission-Launch
– Rebuilding Re-entry
– Github: Missionlaunch
– Repo: clean-slate
• Vera Institute
– Github: vera-institute
– Repo: In Our Backyards Symposium

25. Thank You!
• You can reach me at
– rosario.robinson@gmail.com
– GitHub: rosariorobinson
– @rosariorobinson on Twitter