COVID-19 & Data Group Update December 2020

ANALYTICAL QUESTIONS PUBLISHED 

The Data working group has been meeting for one hour on a weekly basis. One of our main efforts was to compile a set of analytical questions, now added to the Disaster Network.. This process happened over two weeks, starting with a broader pool of questions that we slowly adapted to the systems and scales heuristic. 

The screenshot is from our collaborative Google doc, which we used to organize and consolidate questions. As you can see, we decided to have several questions for a single scale. We also added new columns drawing out historic dimensions and empirical prompts for every question. 

In one of our next meetings, we plan to return to using our slideshow to present data artifacts to each other and draft responses to the analytical questions, which we can now also use on the platform.

All feedback and questions welcome.

DISPATCH FROM CIVIC DATA FIELDWORK

I'm currently in Tainan, in southern Taiwan, where I'm attending the g0v summit, civic tech conference well known all over Asia. There are several talks related to COVID-19, including:

COVID discriminates? But data doesn’t

The mask supply map and After the mask supply map: What can we prepare before the next crisis?

How home stayers unlock the potential of open data in response to Covid-19 Pandemic in Myanmar?

Project Lockdown: Using data to assess the impact on human and digital rights as a result of Covid-19 related Government measures