Community Mill: Data, Media & Communities

Data, Media & Communities #CoMill

@WeAreDataMakers @MISt_uclan

Thursday 5th March 2015

mediainnovationstudio.org

It’s a truism that no matter how much technology you bin, someone can get data off you.

Your local supermarket or bookshop tracks what you’re buying.

Your mobile network provider tracks your calls.

The NHS know when you’ve visited surgery.

Cameras monitor the roads you drive down.

Unless you live as a hermit you will generate some data that describes you through your activities and habits just by being here on the planet at this moment in time.

Working with individuals, groups and organisations we want to find out what data is of genuine interest and importance to us and to work out how we can all benefit from it. We’ll do this through a facilitated lab session and a series of follow up workshops.

Because reliable data, interpreted properly, can help communities address problems, improve public services, support business, get funding, build leadership, increase cooperation, and much more. In short, data-informed decision making can help our communities thrive.

Local businesses, community organisers, teachers, academics, charities, local authorities, social enterprises, computing and data specialists, designers, health professionals, activists, economists, local-councillors creative technologists and makers.

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