Forgotten Yemen
About the CSO
#SupportYemen is an arts collective made up Yemeni women and men; activists and professionals in filmmaking, photography, research, website design and writing. Since 2011 have been devoted to social justice, grassroots participatory narratives and story telling through arts in Yemen.
The Team
Clockwise from top left: Omar (data researcher, Jordan), Westly (Software Engineer, USA), Mostafa (journalist, Egypt), Yasmin (data researcher, Egypt), Osama (#SupportYemen representative), Surasti (designer, India), Rooj (#SupportYemen representative), Asmaa (developer, Morocco/France)
About the topic
Since 2015 the war in Yemen, largely conducted through drone airstrikes by the Saudi’s, has had catastrophic toll on the Yemeni population.
A look at the data
#SupportYemen brought a dataset consisting of more than 8,000 airstrikes that took place between March 2015 until September 2016. Their data, collected and verified by their staff and independent researchers, showed that 3,577 airstrikes were “military” sites, but that 3,158 airstrike attacks hit non-military targets and that 942 attacks hit residential areas. There were 1,882 airstrikes where it could not be established if the target was military or civilian.
Their objectives
#SupportYemen wanted to turn their original dataset into a data-driven story that people would emotionally connect with. At they Data4Change sprint they needed help cleaning and analysing their data and pull out some key stories that they could transform into both an interactive data visualisation and an accompanying short film that would be created after the event.
Results
