Data Literacy September 2019 Check-In

Here’s the topics and resources shared during our online discussion that took place on September 24th, 2019

Data for volunteers IFRC is launching in November
- KRCS asked for best practices around data literacy workshop planning
Kinara For Youth has written about The Power of Participatory Methods in Collecting Actionable Datain Civicus’ DataShift Blog.

How to Change/add civics program – how to negotiate?
- Curriculum development and negotiation
  - Teach OSM talked about how to get it into curriculum (best practice)
    - OSM also build teachosm for the youth
    - https://www.youthmappers.org/
How to reach marginalized communities
- Look at how to work with volunteer communities with data – the behaviour change module might be useful
- http://ifrc-ecbhfa.org/
- A couple of things from FabRiders:
  - Questions to Ask Frequently (QAFs) when working with Data and Marginalised Communities
  - Leave your potatoes at home, or Or ‘how to work with marginalised communities on using data and technology in advocacy’
Couple things from Digital Equity Lab at The New School
- https://www.digitalequitylab.org/preparing-for-the-digital-decennial-census-risk-assessment-strategies/
- https://www.odbproject.org/

Workshop is one piece of the overall engagement, have a plan
Encourage storytelling, impact statements and inspiring resources to keep building eg. videos etc.
HDX Center, will set up peer-peer groups, mentorship via online and webinars for common topics raised by participants
IFRC has online spaces to keep the conversation going in between workshops ( we use teams, slack, facebook, twitter and telegram)
IREX ran a “Data for Decision Makers” workshop with Tanzania’s ministry of health (more details here). They spent some time at the workshop’s end exploring ways to continue the learning remotely / online. Sounds like the Ministry of health has a remote/distance/online learning team as part of its Human resources department, and we’ll be looking at ways to leverage that to scale and sustain the workshop’s activities.

Internal (organizational) Data Literacy Strategy
Kenya RC has allocated resources – built a data preparedness program with netherlands red cross. – slowly implementing it
Would be good to learn and partner with small civil society to localized in countries to build data literacy? (Michael, Nigeria)
- https://www.communitech.ca/how-we-help/data-driven-innovation/do-more-with-data-2/
Examples of what a data literate company looks like?
- Canada Open Data Exchange https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC18mtnAFD-nM5uoab-kF-yA
FabRiders Data Strategy Workshop Curriculum

Helpful Data Literacy Resources

We had many conversations about data literacy and mapping at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Summit and State of the Map (Heather, IFRC)

Here’s a good link of resources – https://responsibledata.io/ 

The Data Innovation Project has some really helpful resources for teaching youth about data literacy. They’re free for anyone to use.

Please share any data literacy resources/upcoming events you’ve created recently

Bob Gradeck in Pittsburgh put together a set of slides for people I’ve been mentoring,they were interested in designing data literacy workshops within health departments – links to some activities that are easy to set-up are included on the slides. Also our Data 101 toolkit has paper-based activity .

NNIP has a lot of materials on data literacy and training, including blog posts, guides, and more – the full list is here: https://www.neighborhoodindicators.org/functions/training-data-and-technology