Evidence informed activism &

data-based deliberations

Tracey P. Lauriault

Dunlop Oriel House, Dublin 2, 7:30PM 4th March 2015

The Programmable City Project

NIRSA, NUIM

Shaping Dublin: A Seminar Series on the Contemporary City

By the Provisional University

Producing

knowledge

Counting things makes them visible

2006

http://www.cso.ie/en/census/index.html

http://www.dublindashboard.ie/pages/DublinEnvironment

Quantifying things provides information

http://www.epa.ie/air/quality/#.VPX7KCxi_nM

http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/imag

es/dan/quetelet-binomial.jpg

https://archive.org/stream/lathoriedelhom0

0halbuoft#page/n5/mode/2up

Counting and quantifying reveals what is normal

http://www.calculator.net/bmi-calculator.html

Correlating things shows relationships

When things are known actions are taken

Homosexuals were deviants and

genetics demonstrated a biological predisposition

Poor air quality is associated w/traffic congestion,

transit and car pooling are remedial planning

actions

Obesity was considered a moral defect, biology

and the political economy have been shown as factors, it has become a social issue

http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/bills/2015/515/b515d.pdf

Bureaucracy acts upon known things

http://www.refcom.ie/en/

http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1980-smoking/

http://www.ices.on.ca/flip-

publication/neighbourhood-

environment-and-

resources/index.html

Classification and counting is resisted

https://www.a

sthma.ie/news

/were-calling-

for-clean-air-

for-all http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-

style/people/being-plus-size-does-not-mean-you-re-

unhealthy-1.1834306

https://www.change.org/p/seventeen-magazine-

correct-their-bmi-calculator-s-definition-of-healthy-

range?utm_campaign=action_box&utm_mediu

m=twitter&utm_source=share_petition

Data

Based

Deliberations

Femicide

http://kareningalasmith.com/counting-dead-women/

Counting Dead Women

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/crime-stats/crime-statistics/focus-on-violent-crime-and-sexual-offences--2013-14/rpt-

chapter-2.html

Official Statistics

• The Home Office now records and publishes data on

homicide victims and the relationship of the victim to the

principal suspect and sex the of the victim.

• But it does not have the sex of the killer or connect

different forms of male violence against women. .

http://www.womensaid.org.uk/page.asp?section=00010001001400130010&sectionTitle=Femicide+

Census#femcensus

Femicide Census

http://www.womensaid

.org.uk/domestic-

violence-

events.asp?itemid=335

1&itemTitle=Femicide

+Census%3A+Profile

s+of+Women+Killed

+by+Men&section=0

00100010017&sectio

nTitle=Events+calend

ar

Why the Femicide Census?

• Provide a clearer picture of domestic homicides in the UK by age/ethnic origin/ relationship/ profession/region/outcome;

• Provide a clearer picture of men’s fatal violence against women that is not committed by a partner or ex-partner;

• Information to create advocacy tools to provide concrete data on domestic violence homicides;

• Provide data when NGOs working to end domestic violence against women is providing expert evidence on domestic homicides in civil cases or before the Coroners court;

• Provide comparisons and parallels between cases to identify where there is the potential for a systemic argument against the State for failing to protect the Right to Life; and

• Provide a resource for academics researching femicides

Data

Based

Actions

Charities

http://openknowledge.ie/about/#whoweare

http://openknowledge.ie/first-irish-charity-data-hackday/

Charity Hack Day

http://tcubedublin.com/

https://ti.to/

http://www.slideshare.net/AdrianOFlynn/solving-irish-charities-transparency-problem http://www.focusireland.ie/reports/2012/annual-report/accounts.html

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwvqlbZTmJr6TFQyYVVVYXB0eWc/edit

http://dochas.ie/publications/accounting-and-reporting-charities-statement-recommended-practice-charity-commission https://www.cafonline.org/publications/2014-publications/world-giving-index-2014.aspx

Evidence

Informed

Actions

Homelessness

http://www.homelessdublin.ie/pass

http://www.dublincity.ie/official-street-count-figures-rough-sleeping-winter-2014-across-dublin-region

http://www.cso.ie/en/census/census2011reports/homelesspersonsinirelandaspecialcensus2011report/

Homelessness Data collection

http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/SpecialNeeds/HomelessPeople/

http://www.environ.ie/en/DevelopmentHousing/Housing/SpecialNeeds/HomelessPeople/

Homelessness Data Dissemination

• Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) - Research and Data Advisory Committee (RDAC) • Housing Agency

• DRHE

• Public Health

• Focus Ireland

• School of Social work and Social Policy TCD

• Programmable City, NUIM

• School of Business, TCD

• HSE

Network of Decision makers • Homelessness Oversight

Committee

• National Homeless Consultative Committee

• Dublin Joint Homelessness Consultative Forum

• 2016 Census Advisory Committee

• Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government

• Local Authorities/HSE

• Charitable organizations

• Housing and service providers

...more

Homelessness Data Actors

“https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/Pilot+Atlas+of+the+Risk+of+Homelessness

Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness

Aging Social Housing Stock in Toronto

Data

Based

Actions

Transit

Transit & Demographic Data

Eoin O’Mahony, Assistant Lecturer SPD/DCU & Omar Sarhan, GIS and data enthusiast https://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/privatizing-public-transport-from-the-periphery-to-the-centre/

Public Transit Conversation

Privatizing public transport from the periphery to the centre?

• Data Sources • Dublin Bus routes considered for privatisation - 23 Dublin Bus & 5 Bus Éireann routes

• CSO/AIRO maps at small area & electoral division to examine what public is served by public transport

• Data Sets:

• Population by social class – professional workers, skilled manual labour

• Private Car Ownership

• Deprivation Index

• Analysis • Core – periphery analysis of bus route privatization

• Examine demographics of ‘orbital’ areas served by proposed privatised bus routes

• Effects of frequency of service delivery to different populations

• Limitations • Absence of route-specific passenger load data

Eoin O’Mahony, Assistant Lecturer SPD/DCU & Omar Sarhan, GIS and data enthusiast https://irelandafternama.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/privatizing-public-transport-from-the-periphery-to-the-centre/

Data

Based

Campaigns

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/10/384129985/advocates

-join-fight-to-eliminate-detroit-s-rape-kit-backlog

http://www.endthebacklog.org/about-us/about-endthebacklog

Rape Kits Campaigns

http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/

http://ajah.ca

http://poweredbydata.org

Charitable Sector Data

Municipal Data Collection Tool

Data

Based

Deliberations

Save the Census Campaign

http://datalibre.ca/census-watch/

488 Against

Evidence

Informed

Activism

Evidence for Democracy

https://evidencefordemocracy.ca

Scholar

Activist

Research

Co-Production of knowledge with and/or for

community based groups, charitable

organizations & issue driven activists

1. Scholar activists commit to channel their

resources and privileges afforded academics

2. Resourcing in the form of research design

3. Research that explores the barriers to

sustained and active participation in

activism

Scholar-Activist Research

Kate Driscoll Dericksona & Paul Routledgeb (2014) Resourcing Scholar-Activism:

Collaboration, Transformation, and the Production of Knowledge. The Professional Geographer

67(1), DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2014.883958

Data

Assemblage

Kitchin’s Data Assemblage

Attributes Elements Systems of

thought

Modes of thinking, philosophies, theories, models,

ideologies, rationalities, etc.

Forms of

knowledge

Research texts, manuals, magazines, websites,

experience, word of mouth, chat forums, etc.

Finance Business models, investment, venture capital,

grants, philanthropy, profit, etc.

Political

economy

Policy, tax regimes, public and political opinion,

ethical considerations, etc.

Govern-

mentalities /

Legalities

Data standards, file formats, system requirements,

protocols, regulations, laws, licensing, intellectual

property regimes, etc.

Materialities &

infrastructures

Paper/pens, computers, digital devices, sensors,

scanners, databases, networks, servers, etc.

Practices Techniques, ways of doing, learned behaviours,

scientific conventions, etc.

Organisations

& institutions

Archives, corporations, consultants, manufacturers,

retailers, government agencies, universities,

conferences, clubs and societies, committees and

boards, communities of practice, etc.

Subjectivities

& communities

Of data producers, curators, managers, analysts,

scientists, politicians, users, citizens, etc.

Places Labs, offices, field sites, data centres, server farms,

business parks, etc, and their agglomerations

Marketplace

For data, its derivatives (e.g., text, tables, graphs,

maps), analysts, analytic software, interpretations,

etc.

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s of

thought

Q & A

Tracey P. Lauriault

Tracey.Lauriault@NUIM.ie

@TraceyLauriault

http://www.nuim.ie/progcity/

Thank You!