Seminar by Bono Olgado
March 27, 2022 (Saturday) | 9 AM Philippine Time (11am GMT)
RESBAK
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About the Seminar
How is a database built? What are the agencies and the challenges to archival building? How can independent archival projects help the community? What can sustain these initiatives? How can we harness the database and the archive in our cultural and advocacy work? RESBAK presents the seminar on Database and Philippine Society to address some of these pressing cultural work questions borne of the Information Age.
The seminar is the second in a three-part series geared towards educating cultural workers with the basics of database. It is an introductory session to guide the art community in critically inquiring how technology can be harnessed as an ally in our cultural and advocacy work.
The first in the series was the seminar on Telling Stories through Data in 2020 conducted by seasoned journalists from the GMA News Research
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To attend the seminar, kindly register to receive the Zoom details.
About the Speaker
Benedict Salazar Olgado (Bono [bo-no]) is a Ph.D. candidate in Informatics and Global Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Co-advised by Dr. Geoffrey C. Bowker and Dr. Roderic Crooks, Bono’s research is broadly situated at the intersections of memory, technology, and documentation) studies in relation to human rights. Bono is particularly interested in the datafication of transitional justice. He looks into how databases as information infrastructure and their imaginaries configure the memory practices and politics entailed in contending with violent pasts. Bono is a Fellow of the Irvine Initiative in AI, Law, and Society and is currently affiliated as a graduate researcher with the Steckler Center for Responsible, Ethical, and AccessibleTechnology (CREATE), the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction (LUCI), and the Evoke Lab and Studio. He is a co-founder/organizer of the Datafication and Community Activism initiative at UC Irvine. In 2021, Bono received the Rob Kling Endowed Memorial Fellowship for his work in the field of social informatics. Currently, he also serves as lead database architect documenting the ongoing violent War on Drugs waged by the authoritarian regime of Rodrigo Duterte. In 2021, Bono joined HURIDOCS as its Programme Manager for Asia, where he supports human rights groups across the region with their documentation, information, and technological needs.
