#DadosSalvamVidas - A COVID Dashboard case study: Building a bridge across the digital divide with community mapping in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Topics: Digital Geographies
, Geography and Urban Health
, South America
Keywords: Covid-19, favelas, Community Mapping, Civil Society
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Monday
Session Start / End Time: 2/28/2022 11:20 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/28/2022 12:40 PM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 27
Authors:
Guillermo Douglass-Jaimes, Pomona College
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Abstract
Covid-19 predictably impacted informal settlements, due to contextual and compositional realities that perpetuate unequal provision of basic services (water, sanitation, trash collection, electricity) as well as structural limitations on informal settlements residents to comply with the best practices for limiting the risk of infection. Residents of informal settlements have long made due with limited resources. The community responses to Covid-19 followed similar patterns of self-organizing, and collective action. This paper presents a case study of the Covid-19 Painel Unificador das Favelas – Favela Unified Dashboard, a web application that documents Covid-19 infections and deaths for 68% of the 763 favelas of Rio de Janeiro. responding to favela residents' concerns that official government statistics had not accurately reflected the scale of impact of COVID-19; a collective of community-based activists, and organizations came together to develop a GeoWeb application that allows verified users to upload data from their communities. Throughout this process, data challenges emerged in working across data platforms, and coordinating with collaborators who had been following safety protocols to work from home. Collaborators faced similar challenges of unstable data connections, electricity, on top of commitments to provide care to other member of their families and communities. This work presents a glimpse into the future of organizing in and with communities that have been recognized as having limited resources. However, this case repeats a well-known phenomena that the technology seemingly at the center of the work, has been a vehicle for engaging in community organizing that has long been practiced.
#DadosSalvamVidas - A COVID Dashboard case study: Building a bridge across the digital divide with community mapping in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro
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