March 31, 12pm-1pm ET Online event – please register here for Zoom link. The Defund Big Tech, Refund Community report offered a call to action for many industries, organizations, and individuals—including but not limited to “Governments and Policymakers“. In this presentation, Dr. Vanessa Thomas (they/them, he/him, she/her) will draw on their experiences working in the federal public […]
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Coalition Data Center: Assembling Data Points for Trans* and Autistic Justice
Join us for a workshop / role playing game session in which we playfully reconfigure what data may mean for trans* and disabled people. The year is 2300 and you have been dropped into the historic Autistic & Trans* Coalition Data Center from the year 2050. Around you the hums of old servers flicker on […]
Doris Allhutter: Why disciplinary boundaries make change hard: establishing critique in requirements engineering
December 16, 12pm-1pm ET Online event – please register here for Zoom link. Requirements engineering (RE) is an interdisciplinary research field integrating social science approaches with software engineering. It is as well a transdisciplinary practice translating different industry domain’s sociotechnical contexts into technical specifications. Reporting on an empirical study in critical RE, this talk discusses […]
Victoria Palacin: Reconfiguring Citizenship Online (Dec 3, 12pm EST)
Join us on December 3 at noon ET for a talk by DCI Associate Fellow Dr. Victoria Palacin! Free online event, please register here for link. Victoria Palacin (@vpalacin) is a researcher and technologist specialized in digital participation for sustainable development. Her current research focuses on understanding the unconscious ideologies that guide the design of […]
DCI Talk: A Planet of Citizen Laboratories. Why the Pandemic has been an Opportunity to Build Infrastructures that Enable both Local and Global Commons
October 21, 2021, 12pm-1pm EST Speaker: Marcos García, MediaLab Prado Director 2014 – 2020 Moderator: Associate DCI Fellow Dr. Victoria Palacin Online event: please register here for the zoom link. In this talk, Marcos García (Director of the Medialab Prado during 2014-2020) will talk about the distributed citizen laboratories project, a project that started in […]
DCI Talk: Online Participation and Democracies with Sam McDonald and Pablo Aragón on Jan 29
January 29th, 12:30 – 1:30 pm (ET) Panelists: Sam McDonald, University of California, Irvine, US (she/her) Pablo Aragón, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (he/him) Online event: please register here for the zoom link. Increasingly, digital tools are mediating participation in the design and development of solutions to common issues, with examples ranging from workplace information […]
DCI Talk: Towards Civic Socio-Algorithmic Ecosystems: Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Dec 3
December 3th, 12 – 1 pm (ET) Speaker: Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University Online event: please register here for zoom link. Orestis Papakyriakopoulos is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for Information Technology Policy (https://citp.princeton.edu/ ), Princeton University. His research showcases political issues and provides ideas, frameworks, and practical […]
Rural Pandemic Labs: Community, Science & Technology for Emergencies
Rural Pandemic Labs: Community, Science & Technology for Emergencies November 5th, 12 – 1 pm (EST) Speaker: Cinthia Mendonça, Silo – Art and Rural Latitude Moderator: DCI Fellow Victoria Palacin Event on Zoom: please register for link! Note: This event will be in English and Spanish (translation provided). Cinthia is the director of Silo […]
Dr Yunhyong Kim lecture II – Reimagining digital preservation of music for Alzheimer’s disease: proposing collaborative research going forward
Reimagining digital preservation of music for Alzheimer’s disease: proposing collaborative research going forward The second online lecture by DCI 2019-20 fellow Dr Yunhyong Kim University of Glasgow hosted by the Digital Curation Institute, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Thursday, 25 June 2020, 3pm – 4:30pm Online The Digital Curation Institute is pleased to invite […]
NEW DATE – Reimagining digital preservation of music for Alzheimer’s disease: a DCI Lecture by Dr Yunhyong Kim
Reimagining digital preservation of music for Alzheimer’s disease: can artificial intelligence be a potential mirror of musical patterns that matter? An online lecture by DCI 2020-21 fellow Dr Yunhyong Kim University of Glasgow hosted by the Digital Curation Institute, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto Friday, 22 May 2020, 12 noon – 1:30pm Online The […]