Presentation from the “Obscure Data” session of the “Our World, Our Data” conference held at at MIT Media Lab on April 30, 2017. Organized by Safecast with sponsorship from the Shuttleworth Fund. Many thanks to Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, and Ethan Zuckerman and Lorrie LeJeune of The Center for Civic Media.
https://www.media.mit.edu/events/our-world-our-data/
11. DR. KEN BUESSELER
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION
Fishing for Answers off Fukushima
Science, Oct 2012
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13. EMERGENCY SITUATIONS:
▸ Prime example: Radiation after Fukushima
▸ Moving target, data old as soon as it is known
▸ Lack of fundamental data literacy among
public, media, and decisionmakers alike
▸ Stress, panic, people will jump at everything
PREPARATION
14. ONGOING SITUATIONS:
▸ Intentional deception and concealment
▸ Data as IP, opportunism, “fauxpen”
▸ Good data but agenda-driven interpretations
▸ Done badly enough that it hurts
SOCIAL NORMS
15. HOW DO I KNOW WHEN I’M BEING
MANIPULATED BY POLITICALLY
(UN)DEPLOYED DATA?
Concerned Person
REASONABLE THINGS TO ASK
31. SOLUTIONS ARE LIKELY TO INVOLVE
TECHNICAL INTERVENTIONS WHICH
SUPPORT SOCIALLY-BASED
INFORMATION AND TRUST FLOWS
32. IF WE CAN LEARN HOW TO ESTABLISH
SOCIAL STANDARDS OF TRUTH AROUND
ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENT, WE
CAN DO IT IN OTHER SPHERES AS WELL.
SAFECAST
PROPOSAL