The Gender & Tech Online Talk Series brings together leading scholars, advocates, and practitioners to discuss the intersections of gender, technology, democracy and human rights. It critically examines how digital platforms and technologies impact women, queer and gender-diverse individuals while exploring pathways for more inclusive, rights-focused digital governance frameworks.
This session explores the concept of “digital transformation”: its meanings, purposes, promises, and failures. From infrastructure to community engagement, the speakers will discuss the conflicts between public goods and private interests in the development and deployment of technologies from critical non-Western and Global Majority perspectives. Some of the questions we ask are: How do social inequalities and colonization shape our current framing of digital technologies? What are the main examples of ongoing projects and systems that should be objects of public scrutiny? How is digital transformation changing local communities, participation, and resistance to techno-authoritarianism? What are the best practices when we think of the development and deployment of people-centered digital technologies?
This online series, co-organized by Yasmin Curzi and Jess Reia, runs monthly featuring two speakers and international perspectives. It began in April 2025 and will continue through the first half of 2026. These are the confirmed dates and topics:
4/25 | Digital Colonialism
5/27 | Data Governance
8/28 | Platform Governance
9/29 | Technocapitalism and Environmental Justice
10/29 | Data Work and Political Participation
12/3 | Trans-inclusive Technology Governance
1/27 | Dis/Misinformation & Political Extremism
2/24 | Digital Transformation
3/24 | Immigration & Techno-authoritarianism
4/28 | Possible AI Futures
