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DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE\nNote: Zoom link will be shared in advance with t
 hose who register.\n\nMunicipal governments are increasingly collecting an
 d using data for decision-making and service provisioning. At the same tim
 e\, community groups and civic organizations are also increasingly engaged
  in data collection and use as they mobilize to address local issues – i
 ncluding economic development\, mobility\, and public health. This common 
 site of data production and use is a potential site of civic collaboration
  among formal and informal organizations. While there is a desire to deplo
 y integrative computing platforms that bring data and people together in c
 ollaboration to address issues of public concern\, there are gaps to enabl
 ing collaboration that are not simply impediments to integration and coord
 ination\, but meaningful seams necessary for productive civic friction. In
  this talk I will present a recent collaborative effort to develop data re
 sources to address food security in a rural town in Georgia. The project l
 everaged community-facing features of the city's geospatial management pla
 tform and provides a perspective on the intersection of organizational bou
 ndaries and technology affordances. From this we can see the breakdowns of
  a unified platform and beginning of opportunities for new systems that tr
 eat these seams as a resource for design.
LOCATION:Zoom
SUMMARY:Mismatches and Seams in Civic Data Infrastructure 
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.seas.harvard.edu/event/mismatches_and_seams_in
 _civic_data_infrastructure
CATEGORIES:Colloquia / Seminar / Lecture
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