Open Data for All: Social Action, Peace Tech & Community Outreach
summary
Argues that open data can power grassroots peacebuilding but is blocked by corporate designs and siloed government processes, offering concrete tools: Skild Drill VR training for mission empathy, augmenta AI pedagogy for learner diagnostics, UNHCR’s Minecraft mapping, a simple digital first‑aid kit, and Horizon Europe funding routes. Shows a South Sudan pilot where mapping drought and missing cattle reduces clashes, warns of biased training data from Europe, and surfaces 17 policy asks (including gamification and a data‑bias questionnaire) from a peacebuilders’ hackathon.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:21Peace Tech definition
- 6:31Communication tools
- 9:00Digital literacy
- 12:18Cyber security in EU projects
- 14:32Peace Tech buzzword?
- 16:20Capacity building
- 18:09Data bias in AI
- 20:20Human-centric outreach
- 22:48Open data recommendations
- 24:56Q&A
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