Introduction to Participatory Engagement

The second phase of the consultation has ended, but if you have any comments or feedback you would like to share with us, please email us at advancingdatajustice@turing.ac.uk

decidim was our participatory platform that was open to participation from individuals and community organisations across the world during the consultation phases of this research.

Understanding data justice and expanding the existing narrative to include voices that have not always been listened to or prioritised is our primary aim. We hope that through this platform, we enabled participants to give their perspectives on data justice through various forms of participation. Your comments and feedback matter, and they played a large role in crafting our final outputs.

Our engagement process took place on a dedicated platform:

https://advancingdatajustice.turing.ac.uk

What took place on the platform?

Our first phase of participatory engagement took place in 2021 and consisted of a Survey that allowed individual participants to share their input on topics related to data justice, as well as a second page entitled Data Justice Sources which enabled participants to give feedback on the themes of our integrated literature review by leaving comments and/or endorsements on the different themes. The feedback from both the Survey and the Data Justice Sources helped to direct us to other sources and/or themes in data justice literature and contributed to our initial research outputs.

Our second phase of participatory engagement took place from March to July 2022. We requested feedback through a Consultation Survey on our three preliminary guides for policymakers, developers, and impacted communities, as well as through general feedback on the Data Justice in Practice Guides, where individuals left general points of commentary and feedback on the guides. These comments were incorporated into the updating of the guides.