Virtual Colloquium: Renata Ávila Pinto – “The Tech We Want: Design Principles Take Back Our Digital Sovereignty and Freedoms”

Renata Ávila’s talk has been rescheduled to Friday, 28.06.2024 at 09:30 a.m. CEST (Berlin-time).

We are joined by Renata Ávila on Friday, June 28th at 9:30h for a presentation titled “The Tech We Want: Design Principles Take Back Our Digital Sovereignty and Freedoms” as part of the Virtual Colloquium sessions. Technology in recent years has adopted a complex, wasteful, and expensive approach to serving its purpose, impacting energy use and other vital resources such as fresh water and minerals directly and indirectly. Access to vital information and knowledge, accessible to all, a function we considered granted, is no longer. As wasteful technology serving only the interest of the very few is proliferating, a functional alternative is urgently needed. This talk will offer a blueprint for a different architecture for the possible technologies of a better future and the communities that will deliver and maintain them.

Renata Ávila (Guatemala, 1981) is an international human rights and  technology lawyer and openness advocate. She currently heads the Open  Knowledge Foundation (OKFN), a global non-profit organisation whose main focus is to endorse open data’s value to society by helping individuals and organisations access and use data to take action on social problems. A former fellow and affiliate of the Stanford Institute of Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence, she is currently associated with the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS, France.  She participates on the boards of several organisations, including Open Future, the Center for the Advancement of Infrastructural Imagination and the Just Net Coalition. She co-founded the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms and the Progressive International. She has co-authored two books and regularly contributes to different publications in English and Spanish.

To join the session with Renata Ávila please find below the Zoom link, 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