Project description:

API ar! purpose develop an open database with codes and creative interpretations about authoritarianism on the WEB using {XHR} protocol and Jupyter Notebook Lab highlighting Santa Catarina State APIs after the last presidential elections in Brazil.

Impact reached:

This Project will increase public understanding of how APIs should be followed, interpreted, and publicized like a Semantic Art manifestation to face authoritarianism.

Techniques/technologies used:

{XHR} protocol and Jupyter Notebook Lab.

Context about the project:

In the past 4 years
“Bolsonaro has become famous for expressing openly homophobic,
unapologetically misogynist, shamelessly racist
and hysterically anti-communist views”.

And the result of the 2022 elections in the south of the country, especially Santa Catarina State, shows great sympathy for him. He represents the ugliest and most violent face of the global far-right movement through terrorist demonstrations.

But not just any terrorism. Especially digital terrorism demonstrations.
In October 2019, President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree compelling all federal bodies to share most of the data they hold on Brazilian citizens, from health records to biometric information, and consolidate it in a vast master database, the Cadastro Base do Cidadão (Citizen’s Basic Register). With no debate or public consultation, the measure took many people by surprise.
Bolsonaro’s government allows military intelligence
to exploit WhatsApp data information on “suspected” civilians.

Data journalists are supported by
non-governmental organizations to
denounce the Excel Project
on social networks.

But At Santa Catarina, the “New Silicon Valley of Brazil”,
it is better to work individually on GitHub.
At Santa Catarina it is better to work individually because the public debate about AI is weakened by authoritarianism and the promise of success of hundreds of startups.

By the way, we need to understand how the success of
Digital authoritarianism affects other countries like Nepal, China,
India and the Arabic World. The promises of development
And the future of the cities has the same origins.

APIar! project can also contribute people to the understanding of
how learning and observing the algorithm culture in order
to protect the people on the internet against
any possible attack on Democracy like Excel Project and others.

Trustworthy AI is about increasing
public understanding of how APIs should be followed,
interpreted, and publicized like a Semantic Art.

I think that the introduction of a concept related to linguistic aspects in the digital culture facilitates dialogue with local and global problems.

I show people how to scrape data with a simple strategy.
And people can participate in the open source project characterizing Trusthworth AI by themselves.

And use the concept of semantic arts to build creative words using codelanguage.

What can other journalists learn from this project?

People can participate in the open source project characterizing Trusthworth AI by themselves.

Project links:

https://github.com/janaina2020/APIar-