In this episode, I talk to Mor Rubinstein, a data activist who was born in Israel and studied computer science in high school. Her start in the world of Data began early in her life when she enlisted in the Israeli army in an intelligence unit, yes! There she worked with lots of data and she was exposed to the importance of being ethical with the data because the military, as we can imagine, holds immense power. In a later stage of her life, she lived in the UK and there she has participated in a variety of initiatives related to the world of open data and amplification, which we agreed is a better word than empowerment. Both see empowerment as having a patronising connotation, because, it seems that you give power to people. But we discussed that people have already the power, what needs to be in place are the right social conditions so that people’s agency can be amplified and enacted. So we are going to use the word amplified instead of empowered. She embodies activism from a feminist perspective and her overarching goal is to contribute to make the world a more just place.

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