Community Knowledge

LinkedIn Post 12: Community Knowledge

Communities hold information algorithms don't have:

• Local context (labour market realities, skill gaps, actual barriers)

• Lived experience (what poverty looks like, what stability requires)

• Priorities (what matters most when resources are limited)

• Trade-offs (how to balance competing needs)

• Early warning signals (emerging problems before algorithms detect them)

When community voice gets replaced by algorithmic assumptions, this knowledge is lost.

SVGA-VOICE embeds genuine dialogue. Communities shape weightings. Communities influence scoring.

This isn't just ethically right. It produces better decisions.