On one of Bryan Alexander's webcasts recently I had a brief conversation with the guest - Dorothy Kim - where the subject of decolonizing data came up. For example, who gets to manage and share data about the slave trade? And what about the risk that deploying such data reduces the people involved to mere data points. Well, I was a bit sceptical, but openminded. For me, this article follows up on that line of reasoning. Abigail Echo-Hawk here talks about how data is collected: "When we think about data, and how it's been gathered, is that, from marginalized communities, it was never gathered to help or serve us. It was primarily done to show the deficits in our communities, to show where there are gaps. And it's always done from a deficit-based framework."
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