This document outlines a work plan to promote data journalism in countries without open data. The plan involves 6 phases: 1) diagnosing needs, 2) increasing visibility, 3) training reporters, 4) creating data tools, 5) sharing best practices, and 6) engaging the public. Key aspects include involving editors, intensive training, appointing coordinators, and meeting frequently. The goal is to start with open data projects and monitoring officials, then expand training to other regions and universities to spread data journalism practices.

1. How to promote data journalism in
a country without open data
By Sandra Crucianelli
Knight International Journalism Fellow
http://www.icfj.org/about/profiles/sandra-crucianelli
@spcrucianelli

2. What’s happening in the world?

3. USA

4. UK

5. Also across the Ocean

6. Show successful cases
Articules and News Apps

7. Message in a bottle

8. Then…
Are these experiences
replicable in
underdeveloped
countries, where the
boundary conditions
are different?
What are doing in
other countries in the
region?

9. Show impact in LN (Costa Rica)

10. Also in O Estado (Brazil)

11. And more…
www.infoamazonia.org

12. Reporters needs to be friendly with
maths and stats

13. ¿How many people are there?

14. It’s not all about numbers!
It’s about variables
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/BizJournalism/teaching-the-effective-use-of-data-in-business-coverage-by-steve-doig#btnNext

15. Also…we need tools in spanish!

16. Blog about “How to…” in spanish
(be launched in late March)

17. I saw that it was opening a gap…
Is data journalism for a all?
Can everyone use the same model?
Or each one can design their own
model to do DJ?
I had no answers
I needed a plan of action…

18. Work Plan
Fase 1
Diagnosis LN first 3 weeks of the Fellow
Fase 2
Meeting to schedule blog posts shared Google Docs
Increased visibility in the Front Page of digital LN (Propose create a Data Channel)
Define where Data Journalism articules will be publish
Blog: rethinking content based public hearing and publishing style
Fase 3
Reporters List for Training
Involve editors and create the position of a coordinator of the team to share meetings with them
Design an intensive training for all the persons involved in the project
Meeting with reporters invidual to start training and consulting
Fase 4
Create Interactive Map Tool Database = about local initiatives in access to public information
Create Interactive Map Tool = Official Gazettes by Province = may be the same map?
Design News Apps = starting open data (Census Proyect) and DDJJ
Fase 5
Good Practices: Interactive Data Viz + share documents using Document Cloud + URLs + Excels
Fase 6
Engage the people: promote debate about open data; write about open data and open Gov.
Create Nation Facebook page Data + strategy for Twitter and invite audience

19. Talk with NGOs (FOPEA)

20. Training for NGOs reporters
members

21. Going to the provinces (Córdoba)
They also want to know!

22. In Jujuy Province (Border at north
of the country)

23. Also in Salta Province, near Jujuy

24. In Misiones Provinces, border with
Paraguay and Brazil

25. Go to talk about DJ to Universities

26. Going to the Hackathons

27. Give ideas to develop in Hackathons and make
them real products

28. Promote join NGOs of reporters in
Hackathons

29. In the Newsroom
Key 1: Involve editors…

30. Key 2: Evangelize using personal training

31. Key 3: Intensive training from Team

32. Key 4: Promote reporters as data producers

33. Key 5: Training about deep
searching data for everyone!

34. How to find files in Excel

35. Find and Open Data from PDFs

36. Petitions and even manual data entry
From this…

37. To this…

38. To do this: Monitoring the assets of
government officials
Ministers The presidential marriage

39. Key 6: Appoint a coordinator

40. Key 7: Working by Proyects

41. Key 8: Meetings…and more meetings

42. Key 9: Review all decisions, again and again…

43. Key 10: Introduce good practices

44. SUBE Case: from Deep Searching Web using Google Advanced
Search

45. And https://finances.worldbank.org/

46. Case APE: 4 variables moving along
the time during 4 years

47. Key 11: See more visible the data team’s
work

48. Key 12: Involve experts in social
media to promote DJ

49. Share experience with another fellows of América
Latina and Africa

50. Thanks!
@spcrucianelli
http://www.icfj.org/about/profiles/sandra-crucianelli