Making Open Data Work for Civic Advocacy

Puussaar, Aare, Johnson, Ian G., Montague, Kyle, James, Philip and Wright, Peter (2018) Making Open Data Work for Civic Advocacy. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2 (CSCW). p. 143. ISSN 2573-0142

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Abstract

The value of data in supporting citizen participation in processes of place-making and community building is widely recognised. While the open data movement now permits citizens to acquire governmental data relating to their communities, little to no effort is made to ensure that these datasets are accessible and interpretable by non-professionals. Through a series of community engagements spanning an 18-month period, we co-designed Data:In Place, an open source web tool which supports citizens in accessing, interpreting and making sense of open data. Leveraging visual map-based querying, citizens can access official statistics about their community, interrogate the data, and map their own data sources to create data visualisations. Reflecting on the participatory design process and the designed technology, we provide a framing to make open data work for civic advocacy.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Open data; data visualisation; data-in-place; sensemaking; civic technology
Subjects: G400 Computer Science
G500 Information Systems
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User: Elena Carlaw
Date Deposited: 17 Nov 2020 10:56
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2021 13:35
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/44774

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