The Design Research Lab is a network of people, organisations, and non-human agents engaged at the intersection of technologies, materials, and social practices. Our aim is to design socially and ecologically sustainable tools, spaces, and knowledge that support people’s participation in a digital society – based on common principles of inclusiveness and respect for the planet. This puts the basic democratic right to take part in the digital sphere into practice. We start our research from individual lifeworlds and the needs of minoritized groups, beyond consumer majorities.
We are an interdisciplinary team of designers, researchers, tech-enthusiasts and critical thinkers from Berlin University of the Arts, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, as well as Einsteincenter Digital Future (ECDF).
In this week’s Virtual Colloquium session, Alexandre Costa Barbosa will hold a presentation titled “From digital sovereignty to AI sovereignty: a Global South perspective”. As a response to digital colonialism, we live in the decade of digital sovereignty. However, the global political agenda has gained new focus, and attention is now focused on the development of artificial intelligence. We then entered what would be the era of AI Sovereignty. It is essential to be realistic and recognize that not all countries can design and implement the political, institutional, and strategic demands necessary for AI sovereignty. This effort can be especially herculean for countries in the Global South, which typically rely on foreign technologies. This talk will explore some alternatives in place and the enablers for a Global South-led AI governance.
Alexandre Costa Barbosa is a digital policy consultant and associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute and a CyberBRICS fellow. He was an expert advisor to the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee – CGI.br and the Brazilian Internet Governance School. Previously, Costa Barbosa was a senior innovation researcher at the Institute for Technology and Society of Rio de Janeiro, where he coordinated research on digital identification in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition, he is a PhD candidate in the Design of digital public infrastructures at the University of Arts Berlin and holds a master’s degree in sustainable territorial development and a bachelor’s in control and automation engineering. Alexandre has given several lectures and authored articles and policy reports, and he was a TEDx speaker on “the decade of digital sovereignty.”
Please find below the Zoom link to join, which will be the same for all online sessions this semester: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82954605489?pwd=VP3XBDzVogeuQtLWaXbWEFpm9ObxiQ.1
Meeting-ID: 829 5460 5489
Kenncode: 079532