This essay offers seven intersectional feminist principles for equitable and actionable COVID-19 data, drawing from the authors' prior work on data feminism. Our book, Data Feminism (D'Ignazio and Klein, 2020), offers seven principles which suggest possible points of entry for challenging and changing power imbalances in data science. In this essay, we offer seven sets of examples, one inspired by each of our principles, for both identifying existing power imbalances with respect to the impact of the novel coronavirus and its response, and for beginning the work of change.

The National Data Strategy Why you should care and what you can do Rachel Coldicutt October 2020

What do I mean by a cock-up? Well, @CDEIUK more tactfully call them “faulty or biased systems”. They include: 📌 Black women being twice as likely to have their passport photos rejected by the Home Office. 📌 The A-level saga 📌 The London Gangs Matrix— Rachel Coldicutt (@rachelcoldicutt) November 26, 2020

Agnes Agyepong, parent engagement programme manager at Best Beginnings and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Maternity Voices Partnership Chair discusses why Black women are not engaging in research and what can be done to change this?

There are known inequalities in how Black communities access micro mobility. Yet there aren’t many metrics or datasets to help organisations and communities understand and measure these inequalities.

We’re used to medical chatbots giving dangerous advice, but one based on OpenAI’s GPT-3 took it much further. Researchers experimenting with GPT-3, the AI text-generation model, found that it is not ready to replace human respondents in the chatbox. Medical chatbot using OpenAI’s GPT-3 told a fake patient to kill themselves.

In our latest interview series, Angela Sharda speaks to Sarah Amani, co-founder of The Shuri Network about the importance of improving the representation of BAME women in the digital health space within the NHS.

How many times have you seen an all-female and black and ethnic minority (BME) panel talking about technology? For many people their first time would have been the Shuri Network launch last July. The Shuri Network was launched in 2019 to support women of colour in NHS digital health develop the skills and confidence to progress into senior leadership positions and help NHS leadership teams more closely represent the diversity of their workforce.

A mixed methods analysis of Black Psychologists’ perspectives and UK mental health Trust data. Presented by Dr Fabienne Palmer BSc (Hons), PGCert, ClinPsyD, CPsychol Monday 26th October 2020 South West EIP Race Equality Project.

At some level, psychiatry (the discipline not just the profession), politicians and policy-makers believe that there is something biologically and culturally determined behind the gross variations in the uptake of the most coercive and socially controlling aspects of mental health provision by Black and Brown people.

With remote learning now the norm, universities are using surveillance software to keep tabs on students who are not engaging with their studies

Call for more transparency on how such tools are used in public services as 20 councils stop using computer algorithms. The Home Office recently stopped using an algorithm to help decide visa applications after allegations that it contained “entrenched racism”.

As the Black Lives Matter protests rage on in the US, many people in Scotland are wondering what they can do to show solidarity with the movement. Between 2000 and 2013, there were more race-related murders per capita in Scotland than in the rest of the UK – 1.8 murders per million, compared to 1.3, according to the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER).

Can transparency bring accountability to public-sector algorithmic decision-making (ADM) systems? High-profile retractions have taken place against a shift in public sentiment towards greater scepticism and mistrust of ‘black box’ technologies, evidenced in increasing awareness of the possible risks for citizens of the potentially invasive profiling.

After a legal challenge to the automatic algorithm, the UK will "redesign" its visa process. The Home Office has agreed to stop using a computer algorithm to help decide visa applications after allegations that it contained "entrenched racism".

A Home Office-funded project that used artificial intelligence to predict gun and knife crime was found to be wildly inaccurate. “Basing our arguments on inaccuracy is problematic because the tech deficiencies are solvable through time. Even if the algorithm was set to be 100 percent accurate, there would still be bias in this system.”

This report has been developed to provide context and understanding for why Black Geographers has emerged as a necessary intervention, and what disparities the organisation aims to address going forward. There is a lack of research aimed at black students within geography so we're creating our own and giving black students a platform to speak up and be heard.