Data Against Feminicide: The Process and Impact of Codesigning Digital Research Tools (Suárez Val et al, 2024)

Data Against Feminicide is an action research collaboration that aims to foster an international community of practice around femicide data. In this chapter, we introduce two tools we have co-designed and tested with activists to facilitate their work and ease the burdens on their workflow. Data  Against Feminicide Email Alerts  is an artificial intelligence-based system that detects femicide cases from media sources;  Data Against Feminicide Highlighter  is a browser add-on that helps activists examine media articles for specific data. By detailing the process and impacts of this work, we seek to motivate others to fully leverage feminist participatory approaches that put technological development and data science at the service of activists, movements, and changemakers who are making a difference in the world.