AWID, Big data, Gender and development, Brazil

Title	PANEL ON BIG DATA, GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT
Category	Gender and Tech
Start	2016/09/11
End	2016/09/11
Hours	1
Scale	World level for international activities
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Organisation	Maya Ganesh, Tactical Tech Collective, Mangala, ARROW, Yiping Cai, DAWN
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Target audience	PRIMARILY WOMEN WORKING IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, ACTIVISM, NGOS ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND GENDER RIGHTS
Number of participants	35
Context and motivations	As part of AWID Forum in Brazil this was developed in partnership with ARROW (an SRHR and gender rights policy advocacy organization working in Asia-Pacific). A panel discussion which presented different perspectives on thinking through how big data shapes knowledge, and suggests prediction, in constructing and addressing 'development'. Maya presented an overview of the topic and area, gave examples from UN adoption of big data technologies. Mangala spoke frm the perspective of implementing organisations like Arrow, and Yiping spoke from the perspective of projects in China and how to think about the role of government, and what accountability means in the context of big data.
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