On October 3, 2013 about 386 people died off the coast of Lampedusa. In the same time a team of journalists received a grant from Journalism Fund to perform a data-driven investigation on victims of migration towards Europe. One year later we remember the dead and missing and retrace the history of “The Migrants’ Files” investigation at the Internet Festival in Pisa (October 11, 2014): http://www.internetfestival.it/eventi/il-potere-dei-dati-a-servizio-dellumanita/.

1. Alessio Cimarelli
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Internet Festival - Pisa, October 11, 2014 ( )page
http://themigrantsfiles.com
#migrantsfiles

2. From 2000 to 2013
trying to reach Europe
Each bubble is a shipwreck and its size is proportional
to the number of dead and missing
+ 3,000 from January to September 2014

3. A meeting Many interests An idea Experiments
CommunitiesThe grantInvestigationThe award

4. The investigation was performed by 8+ people from all over
Europe including journalists, data scientists, developers and more,
thanks to a mailing list and an on-line shared platform, funded by a
cross-border grant of 7,280 € by Journalism Fund.

5. An independent observatory of Gabriele
Del Grande, journalist, activist (and now
film director)
A project by UNITED for Intercultural
Action, an European network of
associations and NGOs
A project of Web-scale Surveillance of
News Media powered by the University of
Helsinki

6. The investigation was published simultaneously
on 9 newspapers from 6 different European
countries, creating a widespread distribution
2000+ tweets (counting)
36+ articles
11 different languages
1 prize

7. Discussion on Twitter with ,
European Commissioner for Home Affairs
We donated the
(2,000 €) to our main sources:
Gabriele del Grande and United, who
now continue to collect useful data
The
used our open data to compile its
annual Migrant Fatalities Worldwide report
The largest database
of victims of
migration is :
accessible, browsable,
searchable,
downloadable,
reusable,
, the Italian
program born one year
ago, had positive effects to
take into account for next
Frontex Plus (or Triton)

8. http://themigrantsfiles.com
http://stories.dataninja.it/themigrantsfiles/
http://stories.dataninja.it/themigrantsfiles/pubblicazioni/
https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23migrantsfiles
http://www.journalismfund.eu/migrants-files
http://www.globaleditorsnetwork.org/programmes/data-journalism-awards/
http://fortresseurope.blogspot.it/p/la-strage.html
http://unitedagainstrefugeedeaths.eu/
http://puls.cs.helsinki.fi/static/index.html
http://dtnj.it/iom-report-2014
http://www.iostoconlasposa.com/
http://dtnj.it/tmf-if2014

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