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Southeast Asia’s first Data and Computational Journalism Conference to be held this July
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he 2022 Data and Computational Journalism Conference Indonesia (DCJ-CI) is set to be the first-ever data and computational journalism conference held in Indonesia and Southeast Asia.
Slated to run from July 27 to 30, the 2022 DCJ-CI will be held online and offline in English and Indonesian, bringing together media businesses, practitioners and academics from various fields, including journalism, data, social and computer sciences.
The 2022 DCJ-CI will focus on the practice of data journalism, both the opportunities and challenges for Indonesian journalists before, during and after the pandemic. This conference will explore new technologies supporting journalism practices, such as Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, machine learning, robotics, drones, open-source intelligence and satellite imagery.
With the support of the United States Embassy in Indonesia, the 2022 DCJ-CI aims to equip journalists, college students and lecturers with extensive skills and knowledge in data journalism, especially in today’s conditions where data plays a vital role in newsrooms.
The four-day event will feature interactive discussions, seminars, as well as hands-on workshops. Panelists include Adolfo Arranz (senior graphics editor at Reuters), Inga Ting (data journalist at ABC News), Alberto Cairo (Knight Chair in visual journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami), Jonathan Soma (Adjunct Faculty, director of the LEDE Program, Columbia University), Maryam Ahmed (data scientist from BBC News) and Arun Karki (Center for Data Journalism Nepal).
“The Data and Computational Journalism Conference Indonesia [DCJ-CI] is expected to deliver best practices in data journalism, explore new and emerging technologies and contribute to the exchange of knowledge on data journalism and technologies between experts from several countries, especially from the United States,” said Michael Quinlan, spokesperson of the US Embassy in Indonesia.
“The role of journalists is critical in disseminating the latest information and news related to COVID-19. Through a series of workshops that have been held virtually in six cities by the DCJ team, journalists have learned how to provide critical information using data visualization so that readers can understand and see the data better.” Quinlan added.
“Not only will the 2022 DCJ-CI be held to encourage the development of data and computational skills in Indonesia's journalism field, but also to make a breakthrough in journalism across South East Asia, to popularize the use of data journalism and the newest technology. Therefore, the presence of this first DCJ-CI is expected to help journalists do their work in better quality so that their work could impact and inspire people more,” said Utami Diah Kusumawati, project officer of the 2022 DCJ-CI.
Meanwhile, one of the 2022 DCJ-CI speakers, Ting, said the conference would do more than just showcase the best examples in the data journalism field; but also explain the story behind the story, so other journalists can produce projects of a similar caliber.
“For me, the beauty and power of data journalism is that it combines techniques from numerous disciplines to not just tell one story, but to reveal the broader pattern behind that story. In the same way a picture is worth a thousand words, data journalism tells 1,000 (or 10,000 or even 10 million) stories in one,” said Ting, who is also a winner of the 2022 Sigma Awards.
In 2021, DCJ successfully wrapped a series of online data-driven journalism workshops with the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic for journalists in five regions; Jakarta; Surabaya, East Java; Palembang, South Sumatra; Makassar, South Sulawesi; Banjarmasin, East Kalimantan; and Ambon, Maluku.
In 2019, DCJ held its very first workshops focused on Disaster Risk Reduction in three regions; Palu, Central Sulawesi; Padang, West Sumatra; and Aceh, Banda Aceh.
The registration for the 2022 DCJ-CI is already open at dcjci-2022.com/registrasi/. The complete four-day conference schedule, and the information regarding the split between online and onsite events can be seen at dcjci-2022.com/agenda/.
