Connected By Data - Emily Macaulay

Communities are affected daily by data governance decisions made by others, whether corporations, local and national government, or civil society organisations, at home, in education, and at work. They may be made the target of damaging or biassed policies as a result of profiling; miss the opportunity to benefit from cutting edge research by being absent or underrepresented in key datasets; or feel caricatured and disenfranchised through the way data is collected about them.

At the same time this is increasingly intensified through the use of AI and automated decision making built on this data, where a lack of transparency and accountability or redress has the potential for even great harms.

CONNECTED BY DATA want communities to have a powerful say in decisions about data so that it is used to create a just, equitable and sustainable world and campaign to put community at the centre of data narratives, practices and policies by advocating for collective and open data governance.