Write Your Own Data Advocacy Values Statement

Date: 2024-07-23
Author: Nathan Pieplow
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Domain: Understanding Data
Subdomain: Acting Ethically with Data
Type of Resource: Assignment

This activity asks students to consider their values before embarking on a data advocacy project (group or individual). It asks them to read the Appendix “Our Values and Our Metrics for Holding Ourselves Accountable” at the end of Data Feminism and then use it as inspiration to create the initial draft of a values statement that articulates their own primary concerns for how to avoid ethical transgressions during their project.

Keywords: Values Ethics Stakeholders Accountability

MLA Citation: Pieplow, Nathan. ‘Write Your Own Data Advocacy Values Statement’ (lesson plan). Data Advocacy 4 All, University of Colorado. 23 July 2024.

Instructions for Students

For next class, read “Our Values and Our Metrics for Holding Ourselves Accountable”, the first appendix at the end of Data Feminism. Consider your own values. What practices, processes, and ideals are you willing to commit to in your own data advocacy project this semester? Using “Our Values and Our Metrics” as inspiration, create a rough draft of a values statement tailored to your group’s project. Each member of your group will create a draft independently, and then you’ll discuss as a group and use the independent drafts as raw materials to craft your group’s official values statement together.

Feel free to look up (and link to) some other data advocacy values statements online if you want more models.