[bestbits] Advice on data viz / aggregation / coordination model for Human Rights & Internet Governance Tracking Platform

[Niels ten Oever]

Hi all,

First of all I would like to thank you all for participating in mapping
Internet Govnerance Processes at the IGF civil society pre-meeting. With
the help of Mehwish everything got digitized, you can find the results here:

https://ethercalc.org/4lk9n5u15tpf

Secondly, I have a question for you all, where I would like to harnass
your thinking on both vizualization, crowd-sourcing and datamodels.

As some of you might know most of our work is on Internet Governance and
Human Rights. I am trying to link these (quite abstract and complex)
technical, policy and legal issues to ensure that in all policy and
Internet infrastructure development and operations human rights
considerations are fully integrated.

We do this in the acronym soup of ICANN, IETF, IEEE, IGF, and the ITU.

And these are not all the forums, actually the amount of forums is
expanding, because we see a lot of new technologies looking for a forum
(such as the 3GPP for 5G development, and new platforms coming up for
IoT as well, not even mentioning Trade Agreements).

I want to make the knowledge on these forums, topics, engagement
methods, processes, meetings, more accessible for other people. I want
this for three reasons:

1. I want to coordinate with other civil society actors who is covering
what, and exchange information in a structured way

2. I want new people to find a way to get involved.

3. I want people to know about the relevance of these topics for their
human rights

Over the past years we have done several things to achieve 2 and 3,
mostly through sites like https://hrpc.io (and the movie Net of Rights
you can find there https://hrpc.io/net-of-rights ), and to a lesser
extend http://icannhumanrights.net (working on an overlay for that, full
site should be done by the middle of January).

But now I want to create a more more meta-site/database that tracks all
the forums, topics, processes, organizations that work on these topics
in these processes, relevant documents, agenda of relevant meetings. And
I want it to be very accessible.

There are some sites that are trying to do the same:
http://www.idgovmap.org/
http://www.idgovmap.org/map/
http://netgovmap.org/
https://graphcommons.com/graphs/31c36e58-a6ba-4772-928c-77d20a3714bb
https://map.netmundial.org/

But whereas these initiatives have a wealth of knowledge, they all do
not really inspire much engagement, let alone an intuitive and inviting
opportunity for other people to add information (which is crucial to
keep it up-to-date and coordination).

I am currently thinking about using Jekyl because we could input data
using Github, and we would not need to make weird (Wordpress) webforms
to use / edit the data.

So here comes my question to you: how should I do this? All ideas in
terms of tech (Git, Jekyl, Drupal, weird database software, d3, etc),
processes (workshops, sprints, etc) and
vizualization/ordering/organization are _very_ welcome.

Very curious to hear all your thoughts on this, because the only way in
which this could be viable if this happens in collaboration with civil
society actors working on these issues.

Cheers,

Niels

PS Of course this site and its contents would all be CC and GPLv3 (or
very similar licenses), so your advice will never be in vain ;)

PS2 Feel free to forward this email to other people / lists that could have


-- 
Niels ten Oever
Head of Digital

Article 19
www.article19.org

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