[Air-L] 'Reimagining Digital ID: learning from the South' Symposium & Art Exhibition @ Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 November

[Mirca Madianou]

Dear AoIR members
Great to see many of you in Niterói - thanks again to the organisers for a brilliant conference. Those of you in London may be interested in the following event and art exhibition at Goldsmiths, University of London on November 8th. The event is free and open to all but registration is required.

Reimagining Digital ID: learning from the South
A one-day event on Digital ID in Global South, refugee and UK contexts, including art exhibition launch with drawings by Karen refugees
Room 137A, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths University of London
November 8th, 10:15-17:00
The event marks the end of the British Academy project 'Reimagining Digital Identity among Karen refugees in Thailand' (REDID https://www.redid.net/). REDID team members (Mirca Madianou, Charlotte Hill and Hayso Thako) will share key findings in conversation with researchers studying Digital ID in Global South contexts where such systems have long been piloted. The UK government's recent announcement about the introduction of Digital ID is a call to learn from research in Global Majority contexts and consider the implications of such systems for migrants and refugees. The event will include roundtable discussions bringing together designers, academics and representatives from digital human rights groups, migrant advocacy groups and think-tanks to discuss the implications of digital ID systems in the UK.
The event will also include the launch of the art exhibition of drawings and poems by Karen refugees from the Thai-Myanmar border. Through this artwork, Karen people reimagine what a fair identity system would look like from their point of view. The exhibition runs from November 1-27 in Kingsway corridor, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths - for more information see here: https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=15599
Programme
10:15-10:45 coffee and registration
10:45-11:00 Welcome - Introduction
11:00-12:30 Panel: Infrastructuring Digital ID
Speakers:   Silvia Masiero (University of Oslo), Keren Weitzberg (Queen Mary University of London), Margie Cheesman (Kings College London) and Andreas Hackl (University of Edinburgh), Mirca Madianou (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Charlotte Hill (Chiang Mai University)
12:30 - 12:45 Exhibition Launch
12:45-13:45 Lunch 
13:45-15:00 Roundtable 1: Digital ID - migrant and refugee perspectives
Speakers: Mallika Balakrishnan (Migrants Organise), Julia Tinsley Kent (Migrant Rights Group), Sara Alsherif (Open Rights Group), Derya Ozkul (University of Warwick) and Hayso Thako (Chiang Mai University)
15:00-15:30 Coffee break 
15:30-17:00 Roundtable 2: Reimagining Digital ID
Speakers: Sanjay Sharma (University of Warwick), Kim Snooks (University of Sheffield), Rachel Coldicutt (Careful Industries), Sana Farrukh (Privacy International), and REDID team members
The event is supported by the British Academy through the ODA Challenge-Oriented Research Grants 2024: Societal Challenges and Approaches to Responsible Technologies, supported under the UK Government's International Science Partnerships Fund, with additional funding from the Migrant Futures Institute at Goldsmiths, University of London: https://www.gold.ac.uk/research/centres-units/migrant-futures-institute/
The event is free and open to all, but registration is necessary. Please book via this link https://www.redid.net/events.
You can find directions to Goldsmiths here: https://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/


Professor Mirca Madianou
Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London
SE14 6NW
UK

email: m.madianou at gold.ac.uk<mailto:m.madianou at gold.ac.uk>
@madianou.bsky.social
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-communications/staff/madianou/
https://www.gold.ac.uk/research/centres-units/migrant-futures-institute/

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