Our 2021 website is live. For more detail on how Aotearoa is tracking on child poverty reduction - particularly for Māori, Pacific and disabled children go here: https://t.co/N3YbTeDiRQ
We need to remember that concerns about arbitrary and capricious decisions in social services apply to human decisions *and* decisions supported by #ML not *just* where #ML is used
.@rvaithianathan#nobel57
.@RVaithianathan, Dr Wendy Chun on #predictiveriskmodels as "diagnostic models"
"If we think of algorithms as mirrors of past, how do we reflect that back to frontline workers in way that doesn't alienate them?"
Maybe talking about "we" not "you" is part of answer
#nobel57
LIVE NOW: "Child Protection: Too Much and Not Enough" by Rhema Vaithianathan, PhD (@rvaithianathan, @AUTCSDA)
Learn how leveraging predictive analytics tools can protect children from abuse and neglect.
📺: https://t.co/iFLT5y3Tto
#Nobel57#whygustavus
"one of tricky issues is, what's our obligation to tell people where they are on these #housingwaitlists and what that might mean for them? "
Erin Dalton @ACDHS says this issue remains, whatever process is used for #housingprioritization
"almost universally, Black clients, and particularly Black clients are under-reporting their self assessed risk related to housing" @RVaithianathan#housingprioritization
our #housingprioritization webinar is underway: "assessment in order to assign people to the right intervention is good in principle but it has really become a rationing tool" @DennisCulhane
The NZ govt has accepted all 25 recommendations from an indpt panel on how to fix its #childprotection agency.
"This report will end uplifts as we have known them,": Oranga Tamariki Minister, Kelvin Davis
https://t.co/eLbRl4t6Qu
You can still join for our 30/9 webinar 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩: 𝐔𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐢𝐫 & 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 w @ACDHS@AISP_Penn@naehomelessness @IssrUq #housing#dataanlytics
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