Alternative narratives: telling stories through open data (en) - a podcast by republica GmbH

Gilberto Vieira, Denise Karunungan, Offray Luna

The production and use of digital data have increased dramatically in recent years due to the expansion of Internet access and the migration of many services and ways of interaction to the online environment. However, there is still a large gap between those with technological skills for using such data, restricted to a very privileged social group, and those who do not have any. This knowledge gap imposes social challenges because having the ability to use the data produced by public and private actors is a determinant factor that allows the most vulnerable groups to understand their context and seek changes towards more just society.Civil society today brings together technology, knowledge and creativity, but when isolated from the database and information held by public organizations it can only play an underwhelming role far from the innovative potential that it has. The generation of new services and processes, more open and democratic, in close connection with the needs of their interlocutors, could be greatly enhanced by the availability of database and information collection from the government and by the appropriate incentive to the use of that information by civil society organizations.
The panel's idea is to raise these issues and recognize initiatives that centralize this debate. Panelists will share examples from Indonesia, Brazil and Colombia on how to use public data to create counter-narratives about the cultural, economic and social problems and opportunities of southern populations? What is the real capacity of collectives and organizations to generate data that confront official data? What technologies have contributed to this?

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