[School-of-data-announce] Join us for a Data Expedition to investigate garment factories October 18-20

Tue Oct 15 14:30:37 UTC 2013

Hi all,

This weekend from October 18-20 School of Data will run a Data Expedition
to investigate garment factories.

See the full announce post here (and below):
http://schoolofdata.org/2013/10/02/data-expedition-garment-factories/

Sign up for the Data Expedition
here<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/forms/d/1p-3Bqr3MkIQZ_VoQqed7OKoAfmoYZffZaJ32HdLHNRE/viewform>
.

We hope to see many of you there!

See the full post below:
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In May, the School of Data community got together in a Data
Expedition<http://schoolofdata.org/2013/05/18/data-expedition-mapping-the-garment-factories/>
to
respond to the Rana Plaza
catastrophe<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Savar_building_collapse>.
They built a crowdsourced database on garment factories and used it to
expose the bad safety standards and non-transparency that contributed to
the disaster.

Now we are taking the garment factory investigation to the next level with
a new online Data Expedition. School of Data (a collaboration between the Open
Knowledge Foundation <http://okfn.org/> and Peer 2 Peer
University<https://p2pu.org/en/>)
together with the International Labor Rights
Forum<http://schoolofdata.org/2013/10/02/data-expedition-garment-factories/www.laborrights.org/>,
School of Data will bring data explorers from around the globe together
online to answer some of the tough questions about the global garment
industry. Join us for the *Online Data Expedition: Investigate the Garment
Factories October 18-20*.

What we will do:

   - Geocode garment factories with the Open Street Map
community<http://www.openstreetmap.org/>
   - Create visualizations to explore and explain the data from the global
   garment supply chain
   - Investigate the global supply chains: find new data sources and dig
   into the key issues in the garment supply chain

Join the Data Expedition using this participant signup
form<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/forms/d/1p-3Bqr3MkIQZ_VoQqed7OKoAfmoYZffZaJ32HdLHNRE/viewform>
or
in the form below!

The Data Expedition will also take place at on-site locations around the
world such as Dhaka (Bangladesh). Would you like to help us turn the online
expedition into a fantastic global expedition? *Sign up to organise a local
data expedition or help us run the global expedition!* We’ll be there to
support you along the way. All you need is a small venue, some great
friends, and lots of curiosity.

Get in touch to help facilitate the expedition with this facilitator signup
form<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/forms/d/1xHAO4jjghGYW0nkbum99L3xoT8xCHJc-xB8bwWs861I/viewform>
.

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Anders Pedersen

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