Snapshots from IT for Change’s five-day residential institute aimed at nurturing, re-imagining ,and realizing socio-structural transformations for a just digital economy.
Jan, 2023
School of Digital Justice
Residents
The institute was powered by the curiosity and expertise of our 29 residents, coming from 15 countries. These activists, researchers, and practitioners brought rich insights from their own fields, and deepened our conversations.
(From L - R) : Mardiya Siba Yahaya, Matthew Nguyen, and Gui Rocco engage in discussions with their fellow group members.
Resource Persons
Our institute featured a various panel of scholars, activists, and practitioners working at the intersection of technology and social justice. They presented a series of lectures, and panels on themes of platform labour, digital governance, and alternative pathways.
(From L - R) : Marc Saxer from FES, and Marie Therese-Png from the Oxford Internet Institute, presenting a masterclass on challenges for equity in the AI paradigm. Gurmurthy Kasinathan from IT for Change moderating a dialogue on commoning the internet.
Exhibition
The first in a series of interactive sessions; a gallery exhibition charting the history of the internet and its governance, provided the historical grounding that have set the paradigms for the current debates on digitality.
(From L - R) : Gopalkrishnan Manicandan, and Erwin Quinones perusing the exhibition.