Supporting data literacy is not primarily about enabling individuals to master a particular skill or to become proficient in a certain technology platform. Rather it is about equipping individuals to understand the underlying principles and challenges of data. This understanding will in turn empower people to comprehend, interpret, and use the data they encounter—and even to produce and analyze their own data. This can only be achieved by considering data literacy as a means toward a necessary reinvention of community engagement and empowerment—towards what we term data inclusion. '
Beyond Data Literacy: Reinventing Community, Engagement and Empowerment in the Age of Data, Oktober 2015