Decision map
Use this sheet in lesson 02. Write the project at the top, then go along the row and fill in who decides at each step. Guess where you have to, and mark your guesses with a question mark.
Project:
Community the data is about:
| Step | What gets decided | Who decides today | Does the community have a say? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Question | What the project wants to find out | ||
| 2. Collection | What is recorded, where, from whom | ||
| 3. Labels | What things are called, in which language | ||
| 4. Training | Which data the model learns from | ||
| 5. Testing | How we know it works, and for whom | ||
| 6. Use | Where it runs and who uses the results | ||
| 7. Fix or retire | What happens when it is wrong, and when it stops |
Two changes
Pick the two steps where a community voice would change the most. For each, write one realistic change: a meeting before the question is fixed, a reviewer the community chooses, a payment for time, a clause that lets the community stop the project.
Step :
Step :
The short test
Can the people this project represents:
- look inside it and see what it does?
- correct it when it is wrong?
- reject it?
- move their data away from it?
- switch it off for good?
Every box you cannot tick is a decision someone else holds.
Data is Soil · GainForest · www.datasoil.org/handouts/decision-map