Using citizen technologies to promote informed decision-making
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This document discusses how data and data journalism can promote informed decision making. It provides examples of statistics that can tell interesting stories and impact local contexts more than national data. These include households owning satellite dishes but no refrigerators, high-earning households living in tents, and the number of married or divorced youth. The document advocates for making local-level data on issues like crime rates, elected representatives, and healthcare accessible to better inform communities. It also promotes training programs and open data APIs to encourage data-driven reporting.
Using citizen technologies to promote informed decision-making
- 1. Promoting Informed Decision-making Promoting Informed Decision-making adi@code4sa.org @soapsudtycoon Adi Eyal
- 2. Promoting Informed Decision-making According to the 2011 Census, 100,000 households owned a satellite dish... but no refrigerator
- 3. Promoting Informed Decision-making 20 households living in a tent or a caravan earn over R2.5m annually
- 4. Promoting Informed Decision-making 23,000 15-19 year-olds have degrees 933 of them have a masters or PhD
- 5. Promoting Informed Decision-making 47,000 10-14 year-olds are married 789 Are divorced
- 6. Promoting Informed Decision-making Data can help us find stories to tell but sometimes it is hard to find them
- 8. Promoting Informed Decision-makingwww.citypress.co.za/politics/parties-generational-mix-walks-talk/
- 9. Image 息 http://www.flickr.com/photos/dfid/ Despite what many people think data already exists
- 10. and it can have a massive effect on Informed decision-making
- 11. Promoting Informed Decision-making Tell me something that I care about
- 12. Promoting Informed Decision-making I want cheaper medicines.... http://mpr.code4sa.org
- 13. Promoting Informed Decision-makinghttp://mg.co.za/page/know-your-hood and to learn more about my neighbours
- 14. Local Context: People relate to what they can see. Local information has more impact than national statistics. http://dotspotting.org/u/980/sheets/2279 Show me the crimes that took place last week, not last year
- 15. Promoting Informed Decision-making http://idp.code4sa.org Help me find my councillor and what they're doing with my money
- 16. Promoting Informed Decision-making Tracking Bills in parliament http://bills.pmg.org.za
- 17. Promoting Informed Decision-making Wards to watch on May 7
- 18. Promoting Informed Decision-making http://mma-dashboard.code4sa.org Media Monitoring Africa Elections Dashboard
- 20. Promoting Informed Decision-making If you build it you'll probably need an API Elections Results http://iec.code4sa.org Maps http://maps.code4sa.org Ward lookup http://wards.code4sa.org Bills - http://billsapi.pmg.org.za Medicines Speak to us Census In the oven
- 21. Media Fellowship Programme: We support media to explore how data journalism can improve newsrooms ability to report and communicate.
- 22. Code4Democracy Want to learn more? http://www.code4sa.org/#community
- 23. Promoting Informed Decision-making Contact Us adi@code4sa.org @soapsudtycoon Adi Eyal