Data Justice

Data justice is fairness (1) in the way people are made visible in and by data (2) how they engage with the technology around data and (3) how they are treated as a result of the production of digital data. Key to this is sharing in the benefits of data use. Data justice can be effected by:

• Reviewing any relevant design principles that could improve your initiative, such as the Design Justice Network Principles

• Creating a Data Justice Plan that identifies who the data is about or from, and ensures that group of people is able to access benefit created by the use of the data (this may be indirect as well as direct).

• Assessing any data sovereignty principles regulating the sector or community the initiative supports. For example, the Te Mana Raraunga Māori Data Sovereignty Network’s Principles of Māori Data Sovereignty; the Indigenous Data Governance Principles from the United States Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network; and the Key Principles from the Maiam nayri Wingara Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Sovereignty Collective

Another lens through which responsible data can be viewed is through that of data feminisim.

Read: When Data Meets Citizens: Citizen Engagement in Data-Driven Innovation Programmes