The purpose of this paper is to understand the social impact of data on communities from cases of community data utilization.,This study took an interpretive qualitative approach and conducted a semi-structured phone interview with 45 participants from data intermediaries and local community organizations.,The results demonstrate both direct and indirect impacts of data on local levels, including resolving local problems from data-driven decisions, realizing unknown problems or correcting misrepresented problems, changing community data practices, strengthening community identity and enhancing the community’s data skills.,The research shows that communities’ data utilization supported community-led actions and initiatives from the bottom-up perspective, which demonstrates the need for supporting communities’ data work.,Minimizing inequality in data utilization should be resolved so that all communities can benefit from the power of data.,By demonstrating evidence of data being critical to encouraging communities’ data utilization, this study fills the gap in existing research, which lacks a clear explanation for how the potential of data can be realized at the local level.

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了解数据对当地社区的社会影响

本文的目的是从社区数据利用案例中了解数据对社区的社会影响。本研究采用解释性定性方法，并与来自数据中介机构和地方社区组织的45名参与者进行了半结构化电话采访。结果表明，数据对本地水平都有直接和间接的影响，包括从数据驱动的决策中解决本地问题，实现未知问题或纠正错误陈述的问题，改变社区数据实践，增强社区身份并增强社区的数据技能。表明社区的数据利用从下至上的角度支持了社区主导的行动和倡议，这表明需要支持社区的数据工作。应该解决使数据利用中的不平等最小化，以便所有社区都可以从数据的力量中受益。通过证明数据对于鼓励社区数据利用至关重要，本研究填补了现有研究的空白，而该研究缺乏明确的解释如何在本地实现数据的潜力。