This past month, Our Data Bodies co-hosted a Technology, Discrimination, and Exclusion workshop with Cape Town-based civil society organization, Open Secrets. The workshop focused on knowledge generation around specific issues of data collection, collusion between private and government sectors, and ideas of ethical data usage in South Africa. The workshop took place at Community House in…
ODB member Seeta Peña Gangadharan worked with Sanne Stevens, Co-Director of the Justice, Equity, and Technology Table, and Safia Oulmane, member of the Justice, Equity, and Technology Table to co-organize the Abolish Carceral Tech track at the Allied Media Projects Conference this year. In this post, we preview interviews conducted by Safia with a sample…