The migrants' files, one year later
Alessio Cimarelli
The power of data at the service of humanity
Internet Festival - Pisa, October 11, 2014 (page)
From 2000 to 2013
more than 23,000 migrants have died
trying to reach Europe
Each bubble is a shipwreck and its size is proportional to the number of dead and missing
+ 3,000 from January to September 2014
The origins
A meeting
Many interests
An idea
Experiments
Communities
The grant
Investigation
The award
The team
The investigation was performed by 8+ people from all over Europe including journalists, data scientists, developers and more, thanks to a mailing list and an on-line shared platform, funded by a cross-border grant of 7,280 € by Journalism Fund.
The sources
Fortress Europe
An independent observatory of Gabriele Del Grande, journalist, activist (and now film director)
The fatal policies of Fortress Europe
A project by UNITED for Intercultural Action, an European network of associations and NGOs
PULS
A project of Web-scale Surveillance of News Media powered by the University of Helsinki
The results
MARCH 31, 2014
THE PUBLICATION DAY
The investigation was published simultaneously on 9 newspapers from 6 different European countries, creating a widespread distribution
2000+ tweets (counting)
36+ articles
11 different languages
1 prize
The effects
Discussion on Twitter with Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Home Affairs
We donated the Data Journalism Award (2,000 €) to our main sources: Gabriele del Grande and United, who now continue to collect useful data
The International Organization for Migration used our open data to compile its annual Migrant Fatalities Worldwide report
The largest database of victims of migration is open: accessible, browsable, searchable, downloadable, reusable, by anyone and for free
Mare Nostrum, the Italian program born one year ago, had positive effects to take into account for next Frontex Plus (or Triton)
Further resources
- The Migrants' Files database http://themigrantsfiles.com
- Italian blog http://stories.dataninja.it/themigrantsfiles/
- Press review http://stories.dataninja.it/themigrantsfiles/pubblicazioni/
- Twitter stream https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23migrantsfiles
- Journalism Fund grant http://www.journalismfund.eu/migrants-files
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GEN Data Journalism Awards 2014
http://www.globaleditorsnetwork.org/programmes/data-journalism-awards/
- Fortress Europe http://fortresseurope.blogspot.it/p/la-strage.html
- UNITED for Intercultural Action http://unitedagainstrefugeedeaths.eu/
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PULS http://puls.cs.helsinki.fi/static/index.html
- IOM Migrant Fatalities Worldwide http://dtnj.it/iom-report-2014
- "Io sto con la sposa" the movie http://www.iostoconlasposa.com/
- These slides http://dtnj.it/tmf-if2014
Thanks!
Dataninja
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