5 Questions on Data and Feminicide with Silvana Fumega
By Catherine D’Ignazio with editing by Isabel Carter
Silvana Fumega is the research and policy director of ILDA, where she
works to promote data publishing and the ethical use of data. Fumega
holds a PhD from the University of Tasmania. There she focused on the
role of international civil society organization in the development of
open data and the right to access to information agendas. She also
holds a masters degree in Public Policy from the Victoria University
of Wellington in New Zealand, and a degree in Political Science from
the University of Buenos Aires. She has worked in the public policy
field for over ten years and has focused on the impact of data and
technology on gender equality for the past three. In that time, she
has focused on ILDA’s work on using data to reduce gender violence in
Latin America.
Fumega and her team at ILDA have developed a standard for collecting and publishing data on feminicides, and her work heavily informs Chapter 2 of Data Feminism, where we discuss the topic and the work of María Salguero (aka…
