Designing Security Across Boundaries: mapping disperse data to collaboratively situate crises
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The document discusses the complexities of data use in crisis situations, emphasizing the need for a collaborative approach among various stakeholders in managing data and responsibilities during disasters. It highlights the potential of data to both empower and disempower communities and stresses the importance of recognizing the political dimensions of data tools and systems. The research aims to develop mechanisms for dialogue and collaboration across different data practices to address emergent ethical concerns.
Designing Security Across Boundaries: mapping disperse data to collaboratively situate crises
- 1. Designing Security Across Boundaries: mapping disperse data to collaboratively situate crises Katrina Petersen Trilateral Research, Ltd. Katrina.Petersen@trilateralresearch.com Data Power 2019
- 4. Wildfiretoday.com Putting Border at Centre: • what is at risk? • who should be responsible for care? • how ought care be distributed? • what will care make better? The answers translate different valences, functions, and expectations of that data; culturally grounded and unstable over time and scale (Fiore-Gartland and Neff, 2015).
- 5. Focus on creative activities that make the informational infrastructures work (Bowker & Star 2010, Karasti & Baker 2004). ‘Staying with the trouble’; working in the ‘belly of the beast’ (Balka 2006).
- 6. “The very introduction of data-centered technologies can both reveal and exacerbate power relations on the ground” (Latonero, 2015) How data is approached and decisions taken during disasters can “reinforce, intensify and produce new and uneven stratifications” (Adey 2016: 42) People need support in noticing, developing awareness, and critically thinking about how the tools and categories have politics (Winner, 1980; Suchman, 1993)
- 7. Bridge Collapse Traffic Jam Water Overheating Cars Health Concerns Road Authorities Police Local Municipalities Community Aid Groups Paramedics …other agencies “think in different dimensions than we do.”
- 8. Data inconsistencies have the risk of being translated into societal vulnerabilities. (Dawes and Gharawi, 2018) They have the ability to both empower and disempower actors and communities as different data and practices with data are included and excluded from consideration. (Leonelli, 2016) (Khazai, et al. 2014)
- 9. Data systems and the categories upon which they function are just approximations of the world, paying attention in specific ways (Bowker et al. 2010) The ability to assign value to data is not determined by the data itself but by the ever-shifting contexts and situations of use (Leonelli 2016)
- 10. “…improves our awareness of each other, but we are not actually interacting.” Transboundary emergent ethics: elaborating and encouraging dialogue and articulation mechanisms around the tensions that arise when IT brings together overlapping, but not identical, practices of risk assessment, perspectives and voices. Becoming data allies, not sharers.
- 11. Thank you. Contact: katrina.petersen@trilateralresearch.com The research presented here is part of the IN-PREP projects, funded by Horizon 2020 (H2020/2014-2020), the European Union’s Programme for Research and Innovation under grant agreement n° 740627.