As part of the 16 days of activism campaign, I have compiled a list of 7 feminist data projects with research, databases and solutions to eliminate violence against women and girls:
🔸 DataGénero – Observatorio launched in 2023 the first living document mapping +40 feminist data projects in Latin America focusing on reporting gender-based violence, feminicides, LGBTQ+ rights and gender equality, among other topics. Check out their work on: https://datagenero.org/proyectos/mapeo-feminismos-de-datos-latinoamerica/
🔸 The Gender Security Project leads intersectional and decolonial research and documentation on patterns and enabling factors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence hashtag#CRSV. Through their different collections of reports, analysis, interviews and trainings the organization provides a wide knowledge hub of solutions with intersectional feminist perspectives, voices and representation from different parts of the world. Learn more: https://www.gendersecurityproject.com
🔸 The Gendered City leads feminist spatiality research and urban planning design tools and community events for more inclusive, safe and gender-equitable cities. Through their FEM. DESIGN network, Placemaking in the Dark events and Women After Dark testimonials, the organization is leading a revolution to address gender disparities, violence and exclusions in urban environments. Learn more: https://genderedcity.org/
🔸 Mexico Evalua “Feminismo de Datos” project publishes briefs, reports and statistics on the challenges to collect quantitative and qualitative data on Violence Against Women and Girls and the efficiency of Public Security efforts in Mexico. Learn more: https://www.mexicoevalua.org/feminismo-de-datos/
🔸 Observatorio Ahora Que Sà Nos Ven leads documentation, analysis and advocacy campaigns to report data on gender inequalities, gender-based violence, femicides and Violence Against Trans, Lesbians and Non-Binary populations in Argentina. Learn more:
https://ahoraquesinosven.com.ar/
🔸Data-Pop Alliance’s Data Feminism Network seeks to advance feminist principles in data science and technology through community-based knowledge sharing with the pillars of using data to Diagnose, Mobilize and Transform societies. The Network develops programs on Data Feminism, Geographies of Inequalities and AI and Statistics for the SDGs. Learn more: https://datapopalliance.org
🔸Massachusetts Institute of Technology DataplusFeminismLab uses data and computational methods to work towards gender justice and racial justice, leading research projects on Data Against Feminicide (SPA https://datoscontrafeminicidio.net/en/home-2/), Audit the Streets, Feminist Hackathons, Creative Data Literacy, Feminist Smart Cities, among others. Learn more: https://dataplusfeminism.mit.edu
Do you recommend other data projects researching VAWG?
Natalia A. Bonilla 