[governance] NETmundial: Some useful visualisations
Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google
tracyhackshaw at gmail.com
Fri Apr 25 08:42:34 EDT 2014
Thanks for the clarification Sumandro.
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Rgds,
Tracy
On Apr 25, 2014 2:54 AM, "sumandro" <mail at ajantriks.net> wrote:
> Dear Tracy,
>
> My name is Sumandro. I was working with Jyoti and Geetha on these
> visualisations, and I created the maps we are discussing.
>
> Trinidad and Tobago is mentioned both as a country that has submitted a
> contribution to NETmundial and a country whose government has submitted
> contribution to the same.
>
> I am very sorry that the limitation of the projection and the size of
> the map leads to Trinidad and Tobago not showing up at all.
>
> Just to check you can go to the page
> (<http://ajantriks.github.io/netmundial/map_no_contrib.html> and
> <http://ajantriks.github.io/netmundial/map_no_contrib_govt.html>) and
> view the source of the page. In the source, look for the variable 'data'
> and you will see that TTO is listed as one of the countries (and
> governments) that submitted contribution.
>
> Bests,
>
> 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 04/25/2014 03:04 AM, Tracy F. Hackshaw @ Google wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > Trinidad and Tobago contributed as a country (and as a Government)
> >
> > ------
> > Rgds,
> >
> > Tracy
> >
> >
> >
> > On Apr 24, 2014 3:55 PM, "Pranesh Prakash" <pranesh at cis-india.org
> > <mailto: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
> > <http://content.netmundial.br/docs/contribs>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pranesh
> >
> > sumandro <mail at ajantriks.net <mailto: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
> > <
> 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 <http://sarai.net>>
> >
> > <ajantriks.net <http://ajantriks.net>>
> > <http://ajantriks.net/__sumandro_pgp_public.asc
> > <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>
> > <mailto: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
> > <
> 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
> > <
> 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
> > <
> 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
> > <
> 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
> > <
> 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-comparing-appearance-of-fifty-most-frequent-words
> >
> >
> >
> http://cis-india.org/internet-__governance/blog/net-mundial-__word-clouds-of-contributions-__by-types-of-organisation
> > <
> http://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/net-mundial-word-clouds-of-contributions-by-types-of-organisation
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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