 Since 2019 at the LAN portal, we've been using data stories as a way to demonstrate how combining data with engaging and persuasive narratives can empower communities to tell their stories to the world. In this workshop this morning, we plan to feature a selection of recent data stories published by the LAN portal, including from the winners of our 2021 data stories contest, as well as perspectives from one of our LAN portal researchers. Our panelists who are here with us today will present their data stories and share their points of view with regards to writing and sharing their effective data stories. We hope that by being with us today, you can gain a better understanding of how to potentially create your own compelling stories by combining data, visual and graphics. So for this morning's workshop, we have three main aims. We would like to present why we think data stories are key for the LAN sector and introduce you to the data section on the LAN portal. We'd like to introduce you to the winners of last year's data stories contest who are here with us today, and we would like to provide you with as much information as possible on how to publish your own data story, maybe even with us. My name is Stacy Zammett and I'm a communications officer at the LAN portal, along with my colleague Conrad Hens, who is the data management and visualization specialist on our team. We will be guiding you through today's discussion. Just a brief note before we begin our conversation today that interpretation is available for all of you. You can access it using the globe at the bottom of your screen. And we also have a Q&A feature for you to be able to ask either myself or Conrad questions or each of our winners who I will introduce to you in a bit. Just a brief note that this is also being recorded this morning. So Conrad, can you tell us a little bit about data stories and why they're key for the LAN sector? Yes, thanks a lot, Stacy, for introducing us, or me, so at this point only. I think we are actually delighted to later on introduce the winners of our data story contest, but we thought that maybe it would be nice to frame a common understanding of what data stories are. And to understand what data stories are, maybe first we should conceptualize what data means for the LAN sector. And I personally think that data in terms of LAN and LAN tenure, LAN ownership, and this parent LAN ownership is that it's key. It's key to understand these questions, but also it's key to frame certain narratives and to make other people aware and understand what's happening in terms of LAN, LAN tenure and the access to LAN. Despite the data being so important, there is, yeah, I would say a lack of data, data on LAN is quite sparse. So the other problem of it being not so accessible or available is that it is also maybe difficult to kind of use data to communicate or to make a point or to advocate for the equal access to LAN, for secure tenure, yeah, and other messages to get across. And I think that's where we talk about it later, that's where data stories are actually key. And that's why we have this little workshop or discussion around. So, in terms of data, I think it's important to differentiate between three different types of data, more or less. It's quantitative data, which we know as interviews, as recordings, as personal communications, maybe also videos or pictures, quantitative data, statistics, etc. And then also spatial data, which could be in its nature also be considered as quantitative data, but we here at the LAN portal differentiate that. And yeah, so we have these three different data types. And we at the LAN portal host these and we will have a look at that later. Now, statistical data or qualitative data or spatial data. The question is, how, how do we work with this data to communicate it to recipients to possible donors to activists to other interest groups to the media. So if we look at big NGOs, like MST or global big media outlets, we realize that becomes more and more important to digest this data. We don't just communicate numbers. Yeah, we form graphs. We simplify it we produce visuals. Maybe in the internet even do this interactively, you wouldn't find any newspaper source or internet page, webpage where data is just presented. They always have certain graphs you can click things on you would have pop ups you can change between different years, etc. So if you think about covered and the covered numbers how those all over the globe has have been produced. For example, how the communication of data has changed. And we in the land sector, I think, or we from the land portal thing have to keep up with that change and communicate data more effectively. So, yeah, you could say it's more attractive to communicate this data, but data stories or the way we communicate data also helps us. We know to contextualize it or to frame it. So we can transport a certain narrative to our reader to our viewer to our partner who's engaged with us. So instead of giving a bunch of data, numbers statistical figures, or maybe cadastral data to a person would be much nicer if we would have a perfectly digested. Yeah, overview, and on top of that overview we already communicate the narrative, which you would like to or the point you would like to make. Yeah, I think that's in a rough, rough sense on what data on land is and what it means to communicate it to others. Yeah, thanks Conrad for giving us an overview of that and the importance that data can have in communicating about land issues. Maybe this is a good time to ask the audience each of you where you a little bit more information from our audience about, you know, where they stand with regards to their use of data within their organizations. So I will just launch a brief poll. And so I've just launched it if, if, you know, our attendees guests if you would like to just answer the question I see that most of you almost 100% I think do work with data within your organization and that's great to know and that's probably why you've joined us here today so we're glad to see that I'll give you a few more seconds to answer the question but it looks like 97% of those of you joining us do actually use data. So that's great. Okay, so that's good information for us to know. Let me just launch our second poll I hope I'm doing this correctly. So poll number two, there you go so what kind of data are you working with so now that we know that so many of you are indeed working with data it's nice for us to know, you know, what type of data that you're using some of them, the ones that Conrad mentioned. So, we'll give you a little bit of time to answer. It looks pretty well actually qualitative data looks like the type of data that most people are using. But in terms of visual quantitative and spatial it looks pretty equal. I'll just give everyone a few moments to keep answering. So it looks like about 77% of you are using qualitative data. And then, you know, it's pretty even across the board in terms of visual and quantitative and spatial data. So that's also good information for us to know and thank you for, thank you to everyone for answering that. If you have any more specific experience with data and data stories that you would like to share. Feel free to do so in the chat and also feel free if you would like to introduce yourselves on the chat and maybe tell us a little bit more about your specific experiences with data or if you have experiences with data stories. We'd love to read those by the chat and it'll also be nice for other attendees to to be able to read that while we're, we're chatting and discussing. Sorry, I think it's quite nice. I'm sorry for interrupting you to follow the chat as well if you open the chat box and also engage there a bit and maybe there are some other attendees who could answer your questions or share your pain or experience or whatever to what it comes to working with data. And meanwhile, I can just take the opportunity and share my screen. If that works, hopefully, and show you the webpage, I hope everyone in this virtual room or space knows and drag organizers, the land portal page. And here we do have our data section, which we are quite proud of. And here we feature different data sets and you can again see the kind of data sets we differentiate. So we do feature statistical data. And we feature more recently, I would say, not that extensively yet spatial data. And the statistical data are in this case, mainly indices, country rankings, numbers of tenure security, or performance indexes, how, how is tenure security perceived in certain countries, etc. And this data is actually assorted or grouped by the organization featuring this data set. So I would click on statistical data and you would see the different data sets we feature but also you can actually search these by a different keywords. So if I would look for customary tenure, for instance, I can just search for tenure, click on customary tenure filled our data sets, and then would get the indicators and also and that's the point visualized a bit. So here we have country rankings. We have the lowest five countries and the lowest performing countries. And if we look at other data sets, statistical ones, we would have kind of maps where you could look for indicators and then see performance indexes on this map. So we do have already in the data section, a little bit of representation of figures, which makes it way more digestible than just producing a table. On the contrary, if we talk about our spatial data. Here we would have real, I guess you might know the landmark or landmark map, which is quite popular. We would actually have actual data like tenure ownership, conservancies, communal areas, especially represented on a map. So it's different than having a country ranked by an indicator. I think I don't have to go into much more detail because I mean, most of the attendees here work with data probably I'm just boring people anyway. But I can just invite you to maybe have a look at our data section, because I think they are just, they are quite interesting data sets you could work with. However, we realized that the land portal exactly what the point I made in the beginning, we should kind of find ways how we can communicate data more effectively than just hiding it in the data section. And also, I mean, we all working with land we know it's not only about statistical figures, country rankings or whatever it's about people, people living on the land people owning the land or not owning it. The struggle for resources for equality and representation. And this together with the audience's desire to get maybe digested data, we came up with story maps at the land portal. And if you look at the data section in the second lowest of these links, we do have a section on data stories. And we feature a variety of data stories from all over the globe about carbon sequestration in communal areas. The change of land use and agriculture production with the global mays boom in Thailand. We have stories about pastoralists in Iran. And a lot of on communal areas in South Africa and the differences between, yeah, former communal areas and freehold lands. We have them in different languages. And also, I think it's a beautiful example on how we can frame a narrative and communicate it, but also how we can mix the different data together. So we work with visuals. We work with statistical data. We work with spatial data. We work with qualitative data so we can mix videos and interviews and pictures and show a map where people live or the resources they fight for, or where people are expropriated and then tell their story. Then I think that's the compelling thing about story maps. Yeah. So in the past, we were just featuring data and now we at the land portal moved on to these more interactive ways of present narratives and also people's perspectives. And also a way more inclusive way to represent data and land, just in producing figures so we can communicate these narratives. And to populate our data section with these data stories in the past we ran certain data contests per year. And I think with this, I can just hand over to you, Stacy. And as you were talking, I was thinking also about the fact that you were saying that data stories are a good way to sort of package the data and from the flip side of that, I think, as someone working in communications, oftentimes we use the written word and just simple blogs with a picture to talk about things. And I think on the flip side of that the data stories allow us to still have the narrative and the written word, but to use all the different means that you talked about to really illustrate the point more dynamically in a way. So I won't say too much. I will just segue off of what you said Conrad and begin by introducing our data story contest winners. To do that I just wanted to let everybody know that the chat is now open in case you would like to discuss further there, or, as I said introduce yourselves or ask us any questions, if you have questions please do use the Q&A box and we will get to them later. So, as Conrad mentioned, we've had a few data story contests and today we have the three winners with us of the 2021 data stories contest. We have the first winner, who is Diana Wachira and her story is called rapid mapping of areas marked for demolitions. And she will tell us a little bit about her story. We have the second prize winner, which is by Dr. Manuel Enrique Perez Martinez from Colombia and he will tell us a little bit more about his story. And we also have the third prize winner with us, Aota Acevedo and she's coming to us from Brazil and she will tell us a little bit more about her work as well. So maybe I can start with you Diana briefly. Maybe I'll let you, if it's okay with you to introduce yourself as well as the story mentioned. Thank you, thank you Stacey, and I hope everyone can hear me loud and clear. My name is Diana Wachira, and I am from Nairobi, Kenya. As Stacey has mentioned, I submitted a data story that was titled rapid mapping of areas marked for eviction, and it was really an initiative that sought to bring about special technology as well as land advocacy. And I'll begin by just sharing a bit and I'll start by saying or by explaining why it's called rapid mapping. And it's because it was a very urgent reaction to land reposition plan that would have rendered about six informal settlements demolished. And more than that, it was that this land reposition plan came about at a time where Kenya had just gotten its first lockdown order. The government had just issued the curfew. We had our lockdown order. It was just the first time the country was experiencing COVID-19 pandemic. So at that moment was when we had our first eviction of an informal settlement in Nairobi. And this eviction resulted in about 80,000 people being left homeless. And worse than that was that that eviction was the start to a further eviction plan of six other areas because the idea of the government was that they wanted to repossess the land that was demarcated for infrastructural services, which over time had been occupied by quite big informal settlements. So once the plan for repossession was announced, it was really quite a very sad moment because everyone was thinking, how do we get to all these informal settlements? How do we start coming together and trying to say that you can't evict this many people. You can't evict these settlements at this very critical time. So what we did is that we partnered with the Cadastra Foundation and using the S3-powered platforms who were able to do this rapid mapping process. And we were able to, using local knowledge as well, were able to identify the six areas, the six informal settlements that were targeted through this identification and through aerial imagery. We were able to sort of create buffers, trying to see in case this settlement is demolished, what will be the impacts? And using this kind of visualization techniques, it was very powerful or very impactful, the kind of conversation it evoked because people could see that, for example, in informal settlement A, if we do a buffer of 500 meters, if 500 meters around the settlement is affected, then these are the numbers of people that would end up being homeless. If a thousand meters, so it was a really kind of visually engaging process, if I may say so. And it helped us develop a very effective land advocacy strategy because with this kind of information, with this kind of, if people can actually see through the maps and through the photography and just see then this is what it would mean if this settlement is evicted. And then it would mean that there will be such gross violation of human rights, it will be such gross violation of property, children will be left homeless and remember it was a time of COVID, the COVID pandemic. So it was a time also, we were not very sure how to handle this pandemic, how to go about it. So it was a very vulnerable time. And using this data story and our visualization process, that's what about spatial technology and qualitative and quantitative data, we were able to actually have a very effective land advocacy plan. And through this information, we were able to engage key stakeholders in the civil society, we were also able to engage actual community members who were able to see. You know, when you say that, oh, a settlement will be evicted and thousands of people will lose their homes. It does not really register in your mind, but when you actually see that in this area, imagery, this are the number of households, the number of structures that will be affected. Then it begins to create some sort of agency. And that's what the data story did in our case. So we were able to come together as civil society, we were able to come together as communities, and through that we were able to start making or start conversing with the government agencies. And it was this kind of process or this kind of initiative was very impactful to the point where the follower preposition plan was halted at that time. So we only had the first informal settlement that was Karyobangi that was affected before we came in. So then through this advocacy strategy, then we had the eviction reposition plan halted at that point. And of course, because I also don't want to say so much at this point, but really just to emphasize the kind of potential, the kind of implication, you know, the kind of rich the data stories has, particularly when it comes to land advocacy, it was really good. It was really powerful seeing this kind of processes coming and also change our approaches because it also meant that our approaches changed in a way we were able to really embrace how to bring on board these kinds of data in advocacy processes. So I think Stacey, I can leave it at that and then I'll engage later on. Perfect. Thank you for giving us that recap. And I've also shared. I've also shared your story in the chat for attendees to take a look at if they would like. Just for Diana and Manuel and out some of the interpreters are asking us to slow down a little bit I always I speak very quickly so I'm going to try to slow down just to keep their jobs a little bit as easy as possible and as smooth as possible so thanks Diana for sharing and I will ask you the same question if you would like to introduce yourself out and a little bit more about your story and your work and we'd like to hear that. Good morning, good morning to all of you. First I would like to thank the invitation to me and to reveal to you that it is a collective of women who are members and who are responsible for the construction of the story. So I am a popular educator, I am part of this collective of women, which is composed by living women of a community called COC, which is in Recife, which is the capital of the city of the state of Pernambuco, which is in the northeast of Brazil. It is from here that I am talking about Recife, from this community, which is extremely marked by the UN, which associates our neighborhood, our territory, violence. COC is a neighborhood that is very close to the center of the city and because of that, it suffers an immobility speculation, because it is very close to the center, because it is an extremely crowded area, which is surrounded by sectors of society that have economic and political power. So our collective, which is a collective of women, black women, living in this territory, has carried out actions in the perspective of building our own references to this territory, which is seen in this way by the city, in a general way. So our work, while women, residents of this territory, has been to build actions, to carry out activities that tell our own story about this neighborhood and our own life. Our life is extremely linked to this territory. So we are a group of photographers who, in this perspective, to tell our own story, to tell our own version of the story and of the reality of the peripheral territories in Brazil, work with some instruments. So we work with photography, we work with collage, we work with text production and also with data on this text production. So we have made an effort, since 2006, to produce elements, ideas and positions about the reality of this neighborhood. And it is a work that represents a form of creation and experimentation around some specific issues, like race, sexuality, class, territory, this relationship with the city, the issues of the right to live and the right to the city. And then it is a work that is completely permeated by our lives, by our emotions, by our sensations, by our learnings. What have we learned and built in this relationship with this territory? And then all our work is permeated by these issues, by these feelings, by the revolts, by the pain, by the passions, by the pleasures that also mean to inhabit this territory. And then we use photography, collage, texts and data as these tools of creation. And we try to convert these tools into political instruments, even of construction, of an art, of a way of living, of a way of speaking about reality, from a feminist, black and also peripheral perspective. And then our story, the story that we wrote, it is completely permeated by these issues, by our emotions, by our struggles, by the difficulties and by the learnings that we have in relation to this territory, which is the place that we live and also with the rest of the city. So our story there, we tried to bring data from reality, bring statistical data and give color to the feeling of life to these data. So this has been our challenge and that's what we tried to do with this story. We talked about our resistance to remain in this territory, which is a territory that has been the target of this attempt to take us out of this place that we occupy and that we inhabit for so many years, of this relationship of belonging that we have with this place, with this territory. And what does this bring to our lives? The challenges and the learnings. So the story is all permeated by this, we tried, the challenge that we put ourselves, was to try to give life to these data and then using maps about the community itself, the relationship of the community with the rest of the city so that the people who know the story can understand, even if they are distant, understand what this place is, what it means to us, what is the relationship that we build with it and with the rest of the city. So it's a story that was built collectively and that also helped us to keep us together during such a difficult period, which was the period of the pandemic here in Brazil, the most vulnerable in the country. And then writing this story made us able to continue together, even with the difficulties we faced due to the pandemic, due to the absence of specific policies to take into account the demands and needs of the population. So it was a challenge not only to stay together, to give color, to give life to these numbers, but also to give the situation that we live in, that we lived the most of our foundation at the time, here in Brazil and in our territory in a more specific way. So this was our challenge, I think that initially this is what we could say and then we are open to talk a little about this story and other challenges that we experienced in this production. Thank you so much for that. I actually have a follow up question for yourself and Diana, because I know you've both used photography very much in your story. So I'll leave that question to the side for now because first I'll go and ask Manuel the same question that I've asked each of you. Manuel, if you can just introduce yourself briefly as well and just tell us a little bit about your stories as the other colleagues have done. Thank you. Thank you Stacey, Coran, Diana, Augusta, greetings to all of you. My story is part of my work as a professor at the Jaberiana University in Bogota City. I'm a professor at the Faculty of Environmental and Rural Studies. There we dedicate ourselves to research of the interdisciplinary type and because I finished my doctoral studies in territorial studies in Caldas University, also here in Colombia, the subject I dealt with in this research is an accumulation of more than 15 years of work thinking about the role, the importance that urban rural peripheries have in contemporary cities. Those places where the countryside ends and the city starts, those fringes where there are hybrid communities, peasants who make agricultural production on a small scale, who work around the conservation of their hydric resources, their soils, their forests, but they are faced with the advance of the immobility expansion, the urban development of the city. I located myself there in a work of more than 15 years, as I mentioned, working with peasants, leaders, managers of the community who have come to develop an effort to link these urban rural peripheries to the territorial order of the city of Bogota, the capital of Colombia. In a place where there is high marginalization, popular neighborhoods, but which limit with agricultural areas. It is a subject quite invisibilized in general public policies at the global level of cities and Bogota, particularly, its territory is approximately 75% rural area and only 25% urban area. That already shows a complex relationship of the importance that territories have today in the present for development, sustainability, adaptation to climate change. These have been areas very affected by the mining of open sky, construction materials and immobility projects. My research of academic level, doctoral level, is published in some books, in some articles, but when I meet with the portal, my reflection is how to translate that academic knowledge that was brought by communities to a dialogue, to a narrative much closer to planners, to other cases of urban rural people in other parts of the world. And I find that this platform facilitates graphically telling that story in a more direct way, more incident, and I only found it in the moment of the pandemic when looking for internet, turning around on social media, I meet with the portal, I start to read it, to understand it and I risk doing that translation, connecting photographic material, social cartography, working with communities, removing some conceptual elements including audiovisual audiovisual, field outputs, pedagogical outputs that I carry out with my students in a course that is called Territorial Ordering where we treat all these issues of globalization, land, the advance of mobile development in peripheral areas. This is the result, for me it has been fabulous to find this scenario. I have already included in my next programs of docency that our students can translate their essays, their reflections through the portal platforms and the use of digital stories that all the platforms, the softwares are offering today on different scales with different techniques, but I believe that it is a way really in global dialogue that gives importance to local data. Thank you for this reception on this platform and I continue to work further with more support and more global information from this side of the planet, Bogota and the country of Colombia. Thank you so much Manuel for sharing. I'll just ask you a follow-up question right away if that's okay. Can you tell us a bit more about where you got your data and information from and how you decided to frame your story if you can give us a little more detail even just briefly about that, that would be great. Okay, this work is related to something that has been happening in the city of Bogota in the review of its territorial order plan, which is a figure that helps the city, the government of the city to define what areas are going to develop, what kind of infrastructure, what protection strategies are going to give to the natural resources and how the economic activities are going to be organized. And in the middle of that reflection we find something very particular and this city of Bogota has a food supply policy and it has a public policy of rurality, that is, a public policy that seeks the protection of these rural people who are very few, they reach more or less 50,000 inhabitants, versus the 7 million, almost 8 million inhabitants that have the city of Bogota. But as I told you, these peasant inhabitants occupy 75% of those rural areas with a strong link to their ecological structure, to their natural resources. So I got there, I brought elements to that public policy, understanding those peripheries. I started working on this in popular neighborhoods, there is a work that I did more than 20 years ago about forced displacement, forced migration, product of the war in Colombia, of people from the countryside who come to the city of Bogota and in the middle of those routes I met with that territory, the territory of the peasant who inhabit the city. So for me it was a paradox, finding so close to the city, people developing agricultural activities and maintaining their living conditions peasant. I started doing ethnographic work, I started walking that area, doing many visits through my courses, taking many photographs, raising many stories of life and it became a laboratory of work, that area in particular, the southern edge of the city of Bogota. From there I started to systematize the experience, then I started doing my PhD studies and I took it as a case of study, but there the challenge was not to get close to me or to use the quantitative data, georeferenciation of course, look at the changes in the use of the landscape, the statistics, the demography, but when you go deep into this, with the peasant, with those who inhabit there, the language and methodology changes completely. So we had to start developing many focal groups, working on themes, the food theme, the educational theme, the productive, economic theme, the role that women have, the feminine leadership in that area is very important, the role that natural resources have, their value and their management, the environmental services. So we started making focal groups, working on specific themes. And then we made the translation of those reflections of the communities through social cartography, which becomes a very powerful tool to translate those demographic data, those data of georeferenciation, hard changes in the use of the landscape and all these languages, but translating them to the light of the narratives of these residents. And that's where I came from, what I call in my work an integrated ethnographic method, trying to put in dialogue the georeferenciation, the social cartography and the narrative. And there's also a very interesting tool, and it's the mapping of social actors, or what we could call now the social network analysis, trying to take that to a scheme where people start to relate with institutions, with organizations, with other leaders. And that allowed the schematic that can then be carried out to a social network analysis, but it allows the communities to know their history, their relationship with public institutions, but that are not immediate relationships, they are relationships that take a long time of negotiation, of planning, of agreements. So the analysis of those social networks, of those social network schemes also helped to offer a very important data to read those territories based on their interactions between different scales, the government of the city, the community organization, the youth leaders and start establishing common networks of interaction in different scales. That was another of the tools that was used for this work and that also offers what is being presented today as part of the contribution that I am making to LAN portal. Thank you so much, Manuel. I'll also turn now quickly to Diana and Aota. Maybe I'll start with you, Diana, because I know that you mentioned earlier the importance of photography in your story, and I was wondering if you could tell us a little bit more about that very briefly. And just the use of images within your story that helped to illustrate your main messages. Thank you, Stacy. And just to also contextualize your question is that for us, the intervention that we were working on was settlement-wide. It was a community-wide kind of engagement. It was one that targeted not only the household level, but also the community-scale level. So it was quite intensive, also particularly because it was targeting a lot of informal settlements. The six that I've mentioned that were part of the land reposition plan. So in terms of our advocacy agenda and in terms of us trying to maximize the reach and just to get this message across that this land reposition plan was actually happening, graphics was very key for us because we had to really do a lot of advocacy initiatives, do a lot of messaging, get people on board and say that this is the kind of implications the demolitions and evictions would have. So we were using our photography and our aerial image areas as a very crucial resource in not only developing the data story, but also in our advocacy agenda. And just to emphasize on that point, photography was key because it communicated to a very large extent the implications of the eviction. And what we did is that because our intervention was first of all informed by a prior eviction that took place suddenly. And then this first eviction is what led to us knowing that there was a plan for eviction of six other areas. So we were able to use the photos from the first eviction to communicate the message that in the case that this plan takes shape, this is what we will be seeing. And you know photographs are very powerful. You know you can say that okay we'll have 70,000 people evicted but if it doesn't have something to carry that image then people will not pick up your message. So we had photography showing the gross violation of the first eviction and showing images of women and mothers and children with their luggage that they could only get from the wreckages. I mean it was just very emotional even in terms of how we used this photography but we just had to communicate a message. Another key graphic that we used was aerial imagery. As I've said our intervention was really relying on this special technology because it was a very fast reaction to intervene in these planned demolitions. So through the aerial imagery we were able to highlight and demonstrate the number of structures that would be affected if the demolitions took place. So this aerial imagery was used to an extent that we were able to sort of draw around the informal settlements the kind of extents that the demolitions would have in terms of how many houses will be demolished how many schools, how many churches how many shops. So implications of the social aspects the political aspects the community resources so that is what we were able to do using the aerial imagery and combining this kind of special technology with photography and trying to maximize a lot of it in terms of how they complement each other was something that was very helpful in our advocacy strategy. It made our data story very impactful because it's capitalised on this kind of two graphic resources but of course even in terms of messaging on social media on community platforms because I had said also our initiative was a very community-led initiative so also trying to see how can we reach as many community members as possible how can we have the social movements and the grassroots movement participate in this kind of advocacy intervention and it was through use of photography so it was very easy to ensure the reach was there for those who are not able to really access maybe the maps or the special technology then the data story made it possible to actually see how this is what it means in case this eviction takes place in these kinds of settlements so I think in a nutshell that was really how we were able to use photography and not only use it alone but also linkage to special technology. Thank you. Thanks you bring up a really good point about the use of images and not only conveying emotion but showing the emotion that is in there and I think that that's also important when relaying the message so I'll ask the same question to Alta Alta if you can also because you mentioned earlier also the importance of the use of images and photos in your story could you tell us a little bit more about that? Yes. So we at Rebelace we work with photography and we have been dedicated a lot to not only some of us in fact do professional work as photographers but we as a collective we do a work to reflect on our community and show our community to to to to to to to to to to to to to a to an a different exotic place, what would be the reference. So, in our case, we try to build, in the case of our history, we put the other photographs, as well as Diana, to give face to these data and to give a face to these data, to give life to these data, and a face that was designed by ourselves, that was built by ourselves. So, what we think is important in our history is that it is an authority of the people themselves, of those who are used to speak. In the case of Revelar, we are a collective of 15 women, living here in Colque, who perform several activities related to art and photography, but together, we try to build this reference about reality. So, all the support, be it the university, be it organizations, civil society, are very welcome to support us in our work, but we also understand that we have the conditions of producing our own work. So, about our community, producing data, producing images, producing information about this reality that we ourselves experience. So, we understand that this is something very important and that needs to be done more and more by the people who occupy peripheral territories. And then, in Brazil, we have had a very big challenge to access official data. We have here in Brazil the Brazilian Institute of Statistic Geography, which is IBGE, which is the government's organ responsible for the production of data that will subsidize the construction of public policies for all areas that the population needs, whether health, education, or housing, for example. And then, as in our history, we brought data about violence, about education, about housing. We needed official data, and in the case of Brazil, the last census, that is, the last rise of data about the Brazilian population was carried out in 2010. So, we have data that are actually updated. Many territories here in Pernambuco, and in other places in Brazil, have carried out a high census, that is, data production, data construction made by residents themselves. In the case of COC, we couldn't do that, because we currently don't have resources to carry out this type of internal research, but we understand that this is very important. So, since we couldn't carry out our high census, we sought information from the official bodies and organizations, and brought these data using maps and photographs so that the people who had access to these data could understand how they are doing in reality, in our lives, in our lives. So, the images, the photographs, and the maps helped us to illustrate, to make people who are not aware of our reality have access to this. So, this was our effort. Thank you so much, Alta. Thank you so much, Alta. No, what I hear from you and Diana is that photography and images are a way to bring people closer to the reality that's occurring. So, I think thank you so much for sharing that, all three of you. We have many questions for you, and I see many questions in the Q&A box, and we also had more questions for you, but I'll turn it now to Conrad, and then maybe in the last, you know, maybe 25 minutes we can aggregate everyone's questions and make sure everyone gets in there. So, Conrad, I'll turn it to you now, and maybe you can tell us just briefly a little bit more about how people can contribute to the data story section and how we can maybe help bring people's story to life, if you will. So, leave it to you. Yeah, thanks. It was one of the questions in the Q&A section, so let's just pretend we are still answering questions from our wonderful audience. Yeah, so the one attendee participant actually asked if there's a way or a possibility to actually contribute yourself to the data section I was just presenting before, and actually one reason of this event webinar here today is of course showing you the wonderful stories from all over the world and their authors, but also to welcome you to submit maybe your own ideas for story maps, and you can do that by simply contacting us via email on the land portal, and then you would give us an idea on the research, the advocacy you're doing in your country, your region, your village, whatever you work on, and we could conceptualize with you together how we could come up with a story map, and I think the concept of story maps has now been sufficiently shared by our participants, so I will maybe quickly share my screen again to show you another storyline on map maze in Thailand and how land use change has actually changed in recent years. It's by one of our colleagues here at the land portal, and what I would like to show you is that here as well, just as the examples we had heard and so on already, is that we have a mix of statistical data which might be boring, but a very good narrative around it showing you what actually happens, and now the idea of us would be that you would have maybe a story in mind and then some spatial data, some qualitative data, some pictures, and with that we would develop something interactive together. So for this story map, for instance, we came up with provinces and their maze harvest, and then you have certain buttons you click on, and then you as a reader can understand the text better on how maze harvest and production has changed in Thailand, and also for people who are maybe not familiar with provinces in Thailand, you can actually click on the text zoom to the province and understand the data and the narrative behind better. So presumably you have some data ready and you would like to share it with a bigger audience. We can just welcome you to contact us, and then with you together we would come up with something and we would then share the data story in our data section, but yeah, we would be featuring it, but you would be still the co-author just as with the story maps you see in our data section. Yeah, I think that's it. Stacey. Yeah, maybe we can start picking some, what do you think? Can we start picking some questions from the audience? I saw some interesting ones. Maybe I can go ahead. There was one that really stood out to me, and I think it, because it also encapsulates a little bit some of the questions that we had wanted to ask the winners, but we only have a limited amount of time, but the question was, and maybe I can ask Manuel first, one of our audience members is asking, what was the most challenging aspect while developing the data story? And I'll add on a little bit to that. If you can tell us about the most challenging aspect and also a little bit about the process of working with us in the last few months, and hopefully that process wasn't challenging, but maybe we can mix those two questions and you can tell us a bit more about that. Maybe I can bring it to Manuel first. Bueno, yo creo que el reto más complejo es llevar la idea que uno tiene su cabeza, que puede ser una galaxia completa, a sintetizarla en un texto y una imagen. Que diga y que uno sienta que dice lo que uno quiere expresar. Creo que ahí es donde está el mayor esfuerzo. Es una cuestión más intuitiva, más de percibir, de conocer el terreno y de poder tener la seguridad de quien elabora la historia que lo que se está diciendo es lo que se quiere expresar. Creo que ahí es donde está el punto más claro. En esta revolución tecnológica en la que vivimos de los medios de comunicación, de la simplificación, esto hace más gustoso, más rápido, más eficiente que la gente capture la idea con la imagen, el texto, el mapa, el esquema, los datos, de una manera más ágil y tome decisiones también muy rápido o comprenda más rápido el problema. Creo que ese es el reto más complejo. Ahora, el segundo reto es la técnica, el software, los pasos. Note, por ejemplo, que no es un problema el idioma, por ejemplo, que se habla español, francés, portugués, inglés. Ese no es el problema, se puede traducir, hay traductores. Y creo que el apoyo de Coran, de Stacy y de todo el equipo de LAN Portal es esencial para poder llevar esa idea a ese lenguaje que utilizan los software. La pregunta es, el gran reto hoy es como volver un dato, una narrativa, un hecho geográfico, un hecho localizado, como mapear eso, como espacializar eso. Y creo que la técnica y la importancia ubica justamente allí para ayudarnos a muchos líderes, investigadores, estudiosos de los temas en distintas partes del planeta a ubicar eso en las plataformas del lenguaje virtual. Y creo que todo este impulso de la inteligencia artificial, de todas estas cosas que están ocurriendo globalmente que nos posibilitan estar. Yo desde aquí, desde Colombia, auto en Brasil, el resto, entiendo que hay gente de Francia, de África, pues nos da la posibilidad de entrar en ese mundo. Ahora, tenemos que hacer un poco más de conciencia de cómo hacemos eficiente esa relación tecnológica de las plataformas y las ideas que son más individuales, más, llamámoslo subjetivas. ¿Cómo fusionar eso? Creo que este es un gran laboratorio donde eso se está dando y donde recurrir a eso va a generar muchas apuestas y fortalezas para distintas personas desde las políticas públicas, desde los líderes en las regiones, desde los investigadores, desde cualquier persona común y corriente que logre ingresar a la plataforma y pueda leer esas problemáticas. Ayuda también a un aprendizaje más globalizado y mucho más consciente del valor que tiene la Tierra hoy socialmente y ambientalmente para el planeta. Entonces, creo que eso son los dos grandes retos. La unión tecnológica de las tecnologías y esas intuiciones, esas ideas y convertirlas en un lenguaje gráfico más eficiente, más color, con más fuerza interpretativa. Ya está de cada cual, de cada persona, abstraerlo y tomar decisiones. Creo que ahí es donde está el punto para poder traducir estos aportes a la acción, a la intervención, a la transformación. Thank you so much, Manuel. I think Conrad and I can also attest to the fact that it's sometimes difficult to take a large amount of information and make it concise. Because I think sometimes even the more tools you have to communicate something, of course the more interesting it is, but then the more complicated it can get to find the proper channel to communicate what you want to say. Thank you for sharing Manuel. I'll ask Aota now the same question. Can you just share with us some of the challenging aspects of developing your data story? Just in very, very briefly in a few minutes. I'm not sure if Aota was able to hear my question. Sorry, Aota, it was just the same question that we posed to Manuel, which was basically if you could share some of the challenges of creating your story very briefly with the audience. Yes. I think the big challenge, first of all, it was a bit of what I said, of accessing updated data. We didn't have the realization of the last census of the population here in Brazil. It's being organized this year. It was to have happened in 2020, but also in terms of the pandemic and also the lack of political will. In 2001 it will be realized now, so accessing updated data wasn't easy. We needed to look for other organizations. For example, the Habitat for Humanity in Brazil helped us access data on a daily basis, which for us are very important data, very expensive, because as our story is about COC, which is our community, it's a community that has suffered a lot of damage in recent years. This is not a reality, it's just COC, a reality of many cities in Brazil, so accessing data about damage, about housing, it's something very important, and then we took the commitment of civil society organizations to do this. This was the first big challenge, to produce this story with these data. But for us, in addition to the difficulties, there was this possibility of illustrating these data, which for us is something very important, politically as well. Alan de Porto helped us with the translation, it may seem like a simple thing for those who work with this, with different regions, but for us, translation is something that is not very easy to do. There are other languages, learning other languages, so for us this was very important. Alan de Porto also helped us to qualify the text, these studies, and make them accessible to other people. So for us this was very important. In addition to the possibility of knowing other stories, in addition to telling our story, for many people, we can also know these other stories, both of Manuel and Diana who are here telling us, but to access the portal, to see that there are other communities around us, along with ours, it makes us think of the fact that racism, for example, is a systemic problem, a problem that is in the whole world that needs to be fought. So I think this was a challenge, not only in our history, but I think it is a challenge that we have as a society. I think our stories, and I say ours, they reveal themselves, as you share with us, they show us, they point out each time but for this challenge to be for the poor people, the fact of sharing these stories makes us think about it. How many of these challenges are present in our lives, but not in our lives, of so many people around the world. Thanks, Stacy. I think I agree without Emmanuel in terms of some of the challenges that are coming up. It was really about how do we make this data speak, how do we make this data enhance the kind of advocacy approaches that you are doing, that kind of advocacy work, so then is that rich? And just in brief, in reference to also these kinds of challenges, just to mention that, I think this engagement with the land portal has really helped in strengthening our thinking in terms of what can data do for you, what can data bring about in terms of change, and change I mean in different scales, particularly for us because we do a lot of engagement even at the policy level, using data and data stories to influence policy and practice. I think the engagement with the land portal has really enabled us to envision that kind of engagement or that kind of process. We have also been able to re-imagine the power of storytelling. As simple as it sounds, if communities, local communities have the capacity or the understanding to easily express different stories about how they experience life, how they deal with challenges of their day to day lives, then it becomes very easy for them to participate in different national conversations. So that kind of engagement in terms of also visibility in terms of reach and really just thinking about how to enhance access to different social economic rights. I mean this engagement with the land that our portal has really enhanced these kinds of thinking around these different kinds of issues. And I think it's something that all present participants can really take up as something that can also enhance the work that they're doing at their scale and really rethink about the capacity and the power of data to really bring about any kind of change. So I think it's been quite good, yeah. Thank you Diana. We've enjoyed working with all of you as well so we're grateful for all the submissions that we received. Conrad, can I bring it to you now to maybe either pick a question or I don't know if there's anything you'd like to add on to Diana's intervention. Actually I think everything important has been said so I can't really add on that. I was just trying to answer the question again in a written format how people can contribute. So at the landport.org webpage there's a section Get Involved and here you can register, create and also or you just simply drop us an email. So I was a bit distracted at this point I'm sorry but I would like to maybe pick the question I already answered by typing into the answer box for the Q&A section. There was a person asking what simple tools we recommend to use to collect maybe spatial data or data then used to create story maps for the land portal. And there's a webpage someone else has mentioned as well sorry an app free and open source it's called odkcollect and this map odkcollect actually allows you to create your own self-designed survey in your smartphone you could have free text answers, digital numbers, sliders etc for yourself and you can also take pictures and through the GPS function of your smartphone you have that georeferenced as well. So you can go around in your community for instance take pictures they are georeferenced and then make some notes to it or ask people certain questions and those answers you will put into your smartphone will then be stored in a table and can be immediately used for further analysis so that's quite a handy tool and doesn't necessarily require real expertise I would say so that's pretty handy actually this question was asked twice as I can see so I hope that maybe I've answered that in a quick or I have elaborated on that sufficiently the other comments I have to say sorry are in French or other languages I'm not able to ad hoc translate but there was one question which I found quite interesting and maybe I can direct that to our panelists again and that was the questions about different countries so in some countries the data on land management or ownership and also the sharing of data publicly reflects transparency and now one of the one of the audience members anonymously asked about the experience in different countries and since we have three people from three different countries here with us the question was in your experience what hinders the sharing of land data or as I have said land data can be scarce can you from your own experience answer the question why in some countries data on land is not to an extent available as we would wish for Diana could you answer that maybe or give your perspective I think I could give my reflections on the question maybe and I would be referring to the Kenyan context just to mention that generally in terms of data even since first data that the government normally carries out after 10 years we find that it's normally not very easily accessible and sometimes it is accessible but generally it's not very accessible and even when it comes to that kind of access you'd find that a lot of information on the informal population the population that exists in informal settlements or that inhabit informal settlements you find that it's always constantly not there these kinds of gaps and data processes at the national level has what has really had a lot of civil society actors engage with the informal settlement communities and it's because of this engagement that you find over time informal settlements are constantly now getting a voice where they were not having a voice at all it has always been a gap that has been there so even in terms of evictions that happened in Karyobangi that my story refers to you'd find that you would not find information before how many people were in Karyobangi before their eviction so such gaps were always avenues that were used to really take advantage of these informal populations so generally it is a very big gap in terms of land data and land inventories and also in terms of land uses land inhabitants within the formal context the formal tenure context you may find it there but within the informal context it's always been a gap and that's why even with the land portal interventions and the data stories then it becomes very handy because then informal populations are able to claim visibility they're able to show that they're actually there that in these informal areas that there's this number of people and this is how their profile looks like so it becomes it forms a big part of advocacy processes in Kenya because then that is something that we always used to say even in terms of resource allocation in urban planning processes how can the urban poor claim that space and it's through data so then I think for me that is how I would respond to the question but just accepting that for us it's always a challenge it's always a challenge accessing communities are actively generating their own data they're actively claiming their presence their recognition using their own generated data yes thanks and I can say from a production perspective there's another problem with the accessibility or the amount of data available because obviously tenure changes continuously and land use changes continuously and so it's a lot of technical experience needed and money to produce this up-to-date data on tenure land use accessibility I think Manuel you also wanted to say something or you rose your hand by accident I think I think of the difficulties that there are to make possible that the information community processes localized stories of life that require to be recognized at the level of other contexts other entities other places I say it a little from my experience as a university professor does one of these investigations immediately the reference is to publish them in magazines indexed with a release of review processes that take a long time and those consultations to that type of reviews cannot be done by any common person a local leader will not be able to do it because it is not in their language I'm going to put an example if I I think I remember that I made I put the results partial of my research that article they have read it at a global level about 15 people 15 people have read it I know they have read it I'm sure that what we have just done 120 people who have been connected in this platform I would believe that at least of that 120, 80 will read the material and with that Diana, Auta we believe that we have already had much broader incidence so I think that is where the great bet of making these data complex in many of them there are elements of marginality of the inhabitants even of violation of rights even of forms of violence need to be expressed globally we are going to love a lot of time if we do it for the other route for the route of the magazines indexed all that of the academic language I do not want to say that it is not important it can be important but I think that the scenario that opens with the portal gives us the possibility to get much faster in a more direct way to generate that transformation if not, we will take much more time in which these particular cases of Diana Auta can be known globally and we can interact and at least have the reference that there are people working on these issues I think that is where the strength of these data is and that is where the strength of the portal I think this question is very good and it would need another workshop for us to answer but as we do not have time I will try to be bold I think something that helps us to think who produces the data and for what it is part of almost interests I will try to answer in a general way and in a specific way talking about our community so in the case of Brazil we have recently passed by great problems about transparency and the production of data and reliable information as I said we have the IBGE which is a reliable institute that has existed for many years in Brazil and it had a very big cut of resources and this impacted the production of data the IBGE if we produce data to build a diagnostic diagnosis of the reality to produce public policies in the case of Brazil we have experienced this great problem of an absence of political will by the public power with the issue of transparency in a general way and in the case of our community we do not have updated data about the amount of residents access percentage of people who are unemployed who are under the poverty line so we have a lot of difficulty of accessing updated data and this has an impact in our capacity to re-indicate policies to give account of these needs and in the case of our community there is a production of information by the hegemonic media which is very dishumanizing our community is very associated like other communities like other peripheral neighborhoods of Recife and other cities the predominant narrative is always of absence on one side and always of criminalization on the other side there is a process of criminalization of the public which is deep by by the narrative produced so this question of transparency is a big problem that we have in Recife in particular and we have tried to show that these data that need to be bought by the public power need to be alive with care and need to be alive Thank you so much Alta and thanks all of you for sharing I think we had a really rich discussion we only had a few minutes left and as Alta said I think with some of the questions did she have a few words that she wanted to say or I think that's it perfect great it's a challenge that we tried to bring some elements in our history thank you for sharing Alta was mentioning that I think with some of the questions coming in we can really go off into completely different webinars and workshops so there's really a lot to discuss and I think we've had a really rich discussion thus far I hope that we've been able to give you insight into these three stories although as Conrad has mentioned there are many more stories in the data stories section on the land portal and I hope that we've also encouraged you to do some work with us and share your ideas with us so Conrad do you have anything else to add before we completely wrap up? Nothing from my side Great well thank you everyone for joining us thanks to the panelists as well for sharing their stories thank you for being in touch bye everyone