From: Veeraraghavan, Rajesh <rajesh_veeraragha...@brown.edu> Dear all,
We are currently working on a research project that seeks to broaden the discourse of the open-data and civic tech movements. We would love to chat with you and further articulate our project and get your thoughts if this piques your interest. Here is a brief overview of the project. Both the civic technology and open data movements has been largely dominated by talk of data itself and the actors who are dominating this space are the people who are able to manipulate data, in other words data scientists or technologists.(Maybe such broad brush characterization of technologists like that is a problem in of itself!))There has been less focus on understanding the perspectives of people who are using data (and could be using data) at the very grassroots, from social movement actors, activists and little known NGOs. We are interested in hearing from participants in the grassroots accountability campaigns. We are looking to understand grassroots uptake of the Transparency/Accountability approach, how they understand and they envision it. Specifically, our focus is in understanding their data/information/technology use. Our goal to talk to them is to understand their work, in their own terms. This is to both amplify an alternate discourse to the mainstream, as well as finding ways to support activists work through brokering with funders. If you are working in the area in any capacity - we want to talk to you to help us identify people to speak to and also to get your take on the project. Please let me know if you have some time to chat over skype. Thanks! Rajesh & Andrea Rajesh Veeraraghavan Postdoctoral Fellow at Watson Institute of International Affairs, Brown University raj...@brown.edu Andrea Menapace Transparency & Accountability Initiative, London. andrea.menap...@transparency-initiative.org
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