Safety in Numbers
Report from Cape Town, South Africa
Sept. 5-19, 2015
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Background
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Injury
Pedestrian Motor Collisions in Tacoma
January 2014-Sept. 2015
PhD Research
Electronic Trauma Health Record
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Other places and people to collect data
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Next Steps
Mobile Data Collection
Office of Global Affairs
Strategic International Partnership Travel Award
mobile injury data collection
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Training community memebers
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Property Rights
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Human Rights
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Human Rights
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Safe Node on the Map
Oh wait...
Open Data
Open Data
The open data movement – the story goes – could variably democratize data access and knowledge production, unite cities and citizens, encourage transparent governance, strengthen democracy, and advance cities socially and economically (see European Commission, 2014; Sieber & Johnson, 2015; Zuiderwijk & Janssen, 2014).
Grand proclamations have been met by a burgeoning critique however, which for example has identified its limited inroads outside of the wealthy cities of the Global North, co-optation by hackers and corporations (Kitchin, 2014), reinforcement of power relations (Gurstein, 2011), as well as concerns about neoliberal logics (Bates, 2012) and threats to social justice (Johnson, 2014).
Open Data
Tacoma
Cape Town
World Design Capital
2014
Driver of Open Data in Cape Town
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Code4SouthAfrica
http://code4sa.org/
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Hacking is a dirty word
inclusive
...data journalism
...living wage
Projects
University of Cape Town (UCT)
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Dept of Geomatics
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Dept of Geomatics
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African Center for Cities
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http://www.africancentreforcities.net/
Summary
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"Ideas are not truths waiting to be discovered but social experiments whose veracity is judged by their effects"(Smith, 2009, p. 421)
Challenge you
to find Easter Eggs
in Open Data
Thank You
Dr. Yonn Dierwechter
Dr. Ali Modarres
Chief Jim Duggan
Dr. Jon Cinnamon
Everyone mentioned in these slides regarding Cape Town!
and
Office of Global Affairs
Strategic International Partnership Travel Award
Safety in Numbers
By Britta Ricker
Safety in Numbers
Prepared to organize my ideas to present during a brown bag seminar for Yonn's class
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