Organization
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Project Information
We are hosting a virtual refugee conference on June 20th in Berlin
https://virtualrefugeeconference.com
We are inviting VizForSocialGood to present in a half-hour session (expected to be 7 pm local time, TBC)
Concept Note
Viz for Social Good: Visualising Data to Tell New Migration Stories
Data visualization helps to tell stories by curating data into a form easier to understand, highlighting the trends and outliers. A good visualization tells a story, removing the noise from data and highlighting the useful information. This short talk will share insights from the creation and production of the data visualisations hackathon experience led by Viz for Social Good, around the topic of migration. Speaking with designers, we will also look at how data visualisations can amplify the message of social organisations, while also exploring ethical issues raised by the use of data visualisations for storytelling. Visualisations from hackathon will be shared to illustrate the talk.
Format
Interactive online discussion(s) led by Viz for Social Good’s volunteer designers and challenge winners.
Summary
The online session “Visualising Data to Tell New Migration Stories” is part of the interactive online conference “Amplify Now”, organized by Kiron – Open Higher Education for Refugees, bringing together refugees, NGOs, academics, designers and employers in a unique global gathering to foster meaningful talks, discussions and collaborative and results-oriented exchange around the theme: “Elevating new learning and strengthening communities”.
The session consists of three parts:
Introduction (5 minutes)
All participants gather in one virtual room for the opening of the session. After welcoming participants the objectives of the session are laid out.
Discussion (15 minutes)
In separate online breakout rooms, attendees engage in interactive discussions revolving around one specific example. The session will be moderated by UNAOC, participants or Kiron team members. Depending on number of attendees in the room, extra features such as submitting questions or input in the chat, ranking questions etc. can be used to structure the discussion.
Q&A (5 mins)
Concluding remarks
Call-to-Action
The audience will learn about the power of data visualisation and storytelling in presenting non-profit data. They will also have hands-on time in groups to discuss and interact with the participants.
Audience
It's likely that conference attendees will also be in the non-profit sector working in education or refugee/immigration non-profits, in alignment with Kiron's values.
Use of Data Visualization
The event will be publicised ahead of time via Kiron's social media comms and featured on the blog. Featured visualisations, as well as being featured at the conference, will also be featured as a follow-up on the blog in publicity relating to the conference.
Data
We are suggesting two types of datasets
(1) There are a number of accessible datasets at data.humdata.org, we will link to 4-6 of these which cover refugee and migrant numbers globally
Internally displaced persons - IDPs (new displacement associated with disasters) https://data.humdata.org/dataset/idmc-internally-displaced-persons-idps-new-displacement-associated-with-disasters
date file: disaster_data.csv
Migrant Deaths by month
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/migrant-deaths-by-month
Data file: MissingMigrants-Global-2020-06-02T06-46-54.xlsx
Refugees, by country of origin
https://data.humdata.org/dataset/unicef-mg-rfgs-cntry-origin
Data file: MG.csv
(2) We will allow for participants to find their own. If they would like to find their own datasets around specific refugee groups, it's possible to search for these and potentially find a unique story - we will offer support on this.
Deadline
6/18/2020