The third instalment of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Digital Society (IWDS) will take place at the VU on March 1st 2024. The theme is Inclusive Technologies. A call for participation will be published soon. IWDS’24 will be followed by a light-hearted community meet-up open to all NI members.

• When: 1st March 2024, for now 9-5pm
• Where: TBA (VU Amsterdam)

Check out the first and second (also here) instalments to get a feel for the content

Some keywords which prompted participants’ attendance to the last IWDS

IWDS’24 (~09.00-15.30h):
Tech has come undone. Feeds and frontpages increasingly problematize artificial intelligence biases, Web 3 fraud, platform monopolies and inequality, or all-male, all-white, all-young images of entrepreneurship. It is time to ask how technologies can be shaped more inclusively to co-create tools that help us address global social injustice, ecological destruction, and the much-needed (re)organization of transnational political economy. To study how digital technologies and societal problems interact, we want to support researchers who take on interdisciplinary approaches.

Community meet-up (~15:30-17.00h):
Following the IWDS event, the Network Institute invites you to join the Interdisciplinary Bingo, an engaging community event centered on the theme of Inclusion and the Digital Society. Save the date for an afternoon full of insightful and fun-themed bingo cards, meeting your colleagues casually with some drinks, and also: competition, because who will win the best bingo prizes?

More information can now be found here

Thanks to Mike Ligthart for putting this together