About "Exploring the Truth"
Exploring the Truth looks at how data and evidence are used to monitor corruption and violence, and demand accountability.
There are, as we've always suspected, many facets to the 'Truth', and now more than ever activists and advocates are revealing what these facets are. There is a sense of dismantling the elaborate concoctions of 'official versions' by reclaiming the way in which stories themselves are told. This reclaiming lies in the increased use of data and evidence in journalism, advocacy and activism by everyday people; sometimes at great risk.
New communities of people are taking on the roles of activists: researchers, journalists, even army soldiers. By sharing, exposing, collating, and aggregating data and evidence (and in some cases creating smart, incisive visualisations of them), the reality of public corruption, the manipulative power of doublespeak and the abuses of public office at all levels of government are being exposed.