We are DataGénero

We are a space that seeks to build a sustainable and inclusive future with data from and for our region. We seek to observe and monitor the various data practices that directly affect the lives of women and LGBTI + people in Latin America, and advise governments and organizations that work with data.

The Data Observatory with a Gender Perspective “DataGenéro” is made up of an interdisciplinary team that aims to put the social sciences in dialogue with the exact sciences as well as with technical tools to analyze, process and communicate data. Our academic, activist and technical backgrounds strengthen our approach to the problem of a lack of data and provide us with a regional gender perspective that help us promote integral processes for the production, collection, analysis and publication of relevant data.

We are a space that seeks to contribute to gender equality because we want a more just world for everyone. To achieve this, we organize ourselves into different laboratories in which we work from an interdisciplinary and transfeminist perspective:

We seek to observe and monitor the various data practices that directly affect the lives of women and LGBTI+ people in Latin America.

We seek to make data inequalities and the invisibility of women and the LGBIT+ collective visible.

We seek to change the extractivist and capitalist logics of data production and generate a collective process of data production, which includes the silenced and marginalized voices in our society.

We seek to democratize knowledge of data science, from a gender perspective, to get out of the obscurantism that surrounds “algorithms,” to understand the process, intervene and make it our own.

We seek to provide and acquire tools so that everyone has the opportunity to understand what the data wants to tell us.

We seek questions and answers. We look for data to help us better understand reality.

We seek to detect biases, make them visible, report them, understand that the data is not objective.

We seek privacy and protection, our aim is for the judicial, legislative and executive powers to echo the urgency with which we need laws and actions to govern data, so that data does not govern us.

Ultimately, we seek to contribute to gender equality through data because we want a more just world for everyone.