Closing Keynote: Creating diverse and inclusive digital future
How can we collectively imagine more equitable digital futures? How can we ensure thattechno-social systemsare designed with the people that need them?
The festival`s closing keynote will explore how Feminist Internet and other designers, activists and researchers bring together feminism, technology development and creative practice to respond to internet inequalities -from gender stereotyping in voice assistants, to racist facial recognition systems to online harassmen
Closing keynote by dr Charlotte Webb.
Moderated by Alek Tarkowski
Animated by Marta Lissowska
Charlotte Webb
Artist, researcher, co-founder of Feminist Internet, a collective aiming to disrupt inequalities in internet systems, products and services by educating and equipping the people who build and use them. For example, she has recently created a Masters Degree in Internet Equalities for the Creative Computing Institute, London, and developed a 4-week online course ‘Design a Feminist Chatbot’ for FutureLearn. She is also Founding Director of Even, a consultancy providing creative approaches to tech equity for the next generation of business.
She is passionate about shaping positive, inclusive visions and uses of the Internet, and was nominated by the Evening Standard as one of the most influential people in Technology and Science in London, 2018. Dr Webb has been widely featured in the international press and has presented her work globally at TedX, Disruption Network Lab, Reykjavik Global Women’s Forum, Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity and Barbados Internet Governance Forum and more.
Alek Tarkowski
PhD, born in 1977, is a sociologist, a creator of digital public policy and a researcher on digital society. He is the co-founder and president of the Digital Centre Foundation, a think-and-do tank building digital civic society in Poland. Tarkowski’s work centres on public policies and strategies to allow digital technologies to serve the goals of openness, cooperation and engagement.
Tarkowski serves as member of the Board of Directors of the Creative Commons organization and of the Executive Committee of the CC Global Network. He’s a member of the Internet Governance Forum Polska steering committee and the Programme Council of the SWPS School of Ideas. Tarkowski co-founded Communia, a European association that works for the digital public domain, and Poland’s Open Education Coalition (KOED). He is a graduate of the Leadership Academy for Poland (2017), and in 2016 was named as a New Europe 100 Challenger. Tarkowski advises public institutions and NGOs on the use of digital technologies, working with entities including the National Audio-visual Institute, the National Institute for Museums and Public Collections, the European Cultural Foundation, the Information Society Development Foundation, the Orange Foundation and the Museum of Warsaw.
