Chapter 48: Human-Centered Computing and Feminicide Counterdata Science

Book Publication

Executive Summary

Data about feminicide can be conceived as missing data – data that are neglected by authorities and underreported in official registries. Activists and civil society groups in Latin America and beyond are increasingly stepping into these gendered data gaps to undertake feminist counterdata science – an explicit challenge to the inadequate data practices of governments and judicial systems on the topic of gender-based killings. This chapter outlines opportunities for human-centred computing to design technologies that support and sustain counterdata collection efforts. It characterizes findings and design implications from twenty-one interviews with groups that monitor gender-based violence; enumerates ideas that arose from a participatory design process with activists; and describes two counterdata collection tools that build on this empirical work and attempt to operationalize feminist principles in their design. Throughout, the chapter calls for an explicitly intersectional feminist approach to co-designing tools to infrastructure counterdata science in the service of justice and liberation.

 

 


 

Interested in joining
our team? Questions
or comments?

Connect with us:  
twitter @femicidewatch

Imprint link icon & 
Privacy Policy link icon

Email us: editors (at)
femicide-watch.org

UNSA Global Network
UNSA Vienna

powered by
enlightenment GmbH

UNSA Vienna

UNSA GN

enlightenment logo