Digital Transformations & Sustainability

What challenges and opportunities does a digital society present for sustainability? How can we leverage digital technologies and solutions to tackle the broader agenda of sustainability?

Work in the 4IR

The global, digitally-enabled Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is already the fastest period of innovation ever. How can we shape the transformations that this brings to address society’s most pressing challenges, and ensure that livelihoods are not exposed to the fallouts of the 4IR?

Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms and Agency

The advent of AI is often portrayed as a socially and economically beneficent innovation, with the ability to offer radical solutions in many arenas of human life. How do we navigate the tension between the reductive rationalities of algorithms and their use for human welfare?

Data, Digital Resources and Collective Action

Current trajectories of data-based innovations and digital interventions for social good are largely driven by top-down mandates of the state and/or through market provisions. How can we reimagine technological access and use of digital resources in community-driven, participatory ways?