[governance] NETmundial: Some useful visualisations
Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google
tracyhackshaw at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 17:34:53 EDT 2014
Hello:
Trinidad and Tobago contributed as a country (and as a Government)
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Rgds,
Tracy
On Apr 24, 2014 3:55 PM, "Pranesh Prakash" <pranesh at cis-india.org> wrote:
> Dear Deirdre,
> I'm sorry we weren't clearer. We should have clarified that we weren't
> looking at all "contributions", but specifically at the 187 formal
> submissions made in the beginning of April and archived here:
> http://content.netmundial.br/docs/contribs
>
> Regards,
> Pranesh
>
> sumandro <mail at ajantriks.net> [2014-04-25 00:55:25 +0530]:
>
>> Dear Deirdre,
>>
>> My name is Sumandro. I was working with Jyoti and Geetha on these
>> visualisations, and I created this map we are discussing.
>>
>> Firstly, I am very sorry that the map has not been labelled clearly. As
>> the text below the map mentions,"[t]he map shows (in *green*) all the
>> countries from where no contributions (by any kinds of organisation)
>> have been submitted to NETmundial. Countries appearing in *white* are
>> those from where contributions have been submitted."
>>
>> The map is meant not at all as a criticism of the countries in green for
>> not 'contributing' to NETmundial, but to point out the limitation of
>> NETmundial as a global event since it has failed to attract written
>> submissions towards setting up its agenda from the countries shown in
>> green.
>>
>> I have just renamed the map to "Which Countries have Not Submitted
>> Contributions to NETmundial". This is a more clearer name I think.
>>
>> I also agree with your point about the bias that maps create against
>> countries of smaller geographic sizes. Trinidad and Tobago is listed in
>> this map as one of those countries that has submitted contributions to
>> NETmundial. It unfortunately does not show up on the map due to the
>> problem you have pointed out.
>>
>> For the same reason we used a non-map based chart to show the
>> contributions from different regions and countries:
>> <http://ajantriks.github.io/netmundial/contributions_countries.html>
>>
>> Once again, I am sorry for the undesired meaning that the maps carried.
>> The point of this map (and the one for the governments that did not
>> submit a contribution) is again to indicate at the structural forces
>> that shape ability of actors and countries to access Internet, and also
>> to take part in discussing how it should be governed.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> sumandro
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------
>>
>> sumandro chattapadhyay
>>
>> research associate
>> the sarai programme
>> centre for the study of developing societies
>> <sarai.net>
>>
>> <ajantriks.net>
>> <http://ajantriks.net/sumandro_pgp_public.asc>
>>
>> On 04/24/2014 10:25 PM, Deirdre Williams wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Geetha,
>>> Thank you for the information, but on (as you might say) a point of
>>> order - please clarify what is meant by "contributed to NETmundial". I
>>> participated remotely all day yesterday and so far today, and observed
>>> several interventions from Cuba and the Dominican Republic (I'm from the
>>> Caribbean) which are clearly marked (and labelled) on your map as not
>>> contributing. My own particular small island is too small to show on the
>>> map although it is a sovereign country, as is Trinidad and Tobago which
>>> also isn't there. There were contributions both to the draft document
>>> and to the meeting from both small island states.
>>>
>>> Aggregated information like this needs to be handled rather carefully,
>>> and small countries are important too. I have limited my comments to my
>>> own casual knowledge of my own region - the Caribbean.
>>>
>>> Deirdre
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24 April 2014 12:29, Geetha Hariharan <geetha at cis-india.org
>>> <mailto:geetha at cis-india.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Some interesting visualisations from Centre for Internet and Society
>>> about the NETmundial contributions. The visualisations have been
>>> done by
>>> Sumandro Chattapadhyay based on quantitative data gatherered from
>>> the
>>> contributions.
>>>
>>> Tracking word use: 'multi-stakeholder' and 'multi-stakeholderism'
>>> across
>>> all NETmundial contributions:
>>> http://ajantriks.github.io/netmundial/track_multistakeholder.html
>>>
>>> Which countries have not contributed to NETmundial:
>>> http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/net-mundial-
>>> which-countries-have-not-contributed-to-net-mundial
>>>
>>> Which governments have not contributed to NETmundial:
>>> http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/net-mundial-
>>> which-governments-have-not-contributed-to-net-mundial
>>>
>>> NETmundial contributions, visualised by countries of origin:
>>> http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/net-mundial-
>>> contributions-by-countries-of-origin
>>>
>>> What organisations have submitted contributions to NETmundial?
>>> http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/net-mundial-
>>> contributions-by-types-of-organisation
>>>
>>> Some word-counts:
>>> http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/net-mundial-
>>> comparing-appearance-of-fifty-most-frequent-words
>>> http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/net-mundial-
>>> word-clouds-of-contributions-by-types-of-organisation
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
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