Equitable Digital Economies
Webinar as part of the Not-Equal Summer Webinar Series 2021.
datadata justicegig economyparticipatory design
Project Type
Talk / VideoCurrent neoliberal economic models driving much digital innovation are exploitative and contribute to the reproduction and widening of inequalities. Can design help forge equitable economic models and reshape current value-systems? How?
We can begin to repair these weaknesses, but we will need to pay more attention to the necessarily human and collaborative work-practices of data science, and we will need to re-think our technologies to preserve a more transparent and accountable provenance of human decisions and human outcomes that contribute to data science applications.
This webinar took place on Tuesday 8th June 2021.
Panel Speakers
- Dr Tawanna Dillahunt, University of Michigan’s School of Information (UMSI) – Eliciting alternative economies using speculative co-design
- Dr Pitso Tsibolane, University of Cape Town – “It feels like slavery all over again!” Critical Perspectives on Digital Gig Labour in the Global South
- Ruth Catlow, Furtherfield – The role of art and culture in critical engagement with alternative economies and decentralised technologies
- Prof Ann Light, Sussex University/Malmo University – Transformative Economies and Relational Assets
- Dr Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University – A few thoughts on commoning, participatory design, and going beyond capital
- Chair: Prof Lizzie Coles- Kemp, Royal Holloway University of London
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