Digital Defense Playbook; Community Power Tools for Reclaiming Data
Last updated: 2022-11-29 Tuesday
Digital Defense Playbook
Is an amazing resource to talk about oppression, community and data. The book contains exercises and thoughtfull commentary. The book can be found at odbproject.org.
Our Data Bodies (ODB) has conducted research and produced a workbook of popular education activities focused on data, surveillance, and community safety to co-create and share knowledge, analyses, and tools for data justice and data access for equity. We hope that this project will be helpful to movements for justice grounded in peoples’ realities. We hope that our work will enhance trusted models of community health and safety and help illuminate the differences between being safe and being secure. We wish this Digital Defense Playbook, with all its activities, tools, tip sheets, and reflection pieces, will support organizations and community members involved in intersectional fights for racial justice, LGBTQ liberation, feminism, immigrant rights, economic justice, and other freedom struggles, to help us understand and address the impact of data- based technologies on our social justice work.
The Digital Defense Playbook (DDP) can be facilitated as a series of community-based workshops or as individual, stand-alone workshops. Each session is developed to run from between 45 and 90 minutes and, if possible, can be successfully implemented in a 2-hour window of time. It can be restrictive for participants to share thoughts and ideas in less than 45 minutes, as these topics are complex, and we want to ensure that we are leaving our community members with a sense of power, not paranoia. Be sure there is uninterrupted access to a room for the activities to take place. Make reservations ahead of time, if necessary. PARTICIPANTS: DDP activities, tools, and tips are designed primarily for People of Color (POC) and members of other marginalized communities, including poor, trans Queer, unhoused, and previously incarcerated people, as the activities were developed directly out of the stories and experiences of these same communities. At the same time, this guide can be used in any community. We do recommend organizers be mindful of protecting the group’s safety and vulnerability, where necessary, in order to grow and maintain trust for session participants. These spaces are designed to allow our community members to speak uncensored about their experiences with racism, oppression, violence, and other forms of systematic violence without the fear of being silenced or overshadowed by others with greater privilege.
what do I think about it
Not only is this great for working with marginalized groups but these exercises can be used to design more inclusive solutions. I think this playbook can be used as inspiration for ’normal’ requirements gathering.