[Air-L] Gender & Tech Talk Series – February 24, 10:00am EST – Digital Transformation

[Jess Reia]

Dear colleagues,



The Digital Technology for Democracy Lab is pleased to announce the
eighth session
of the Gender & Tech Online Talk Series, scheduled for February 24, 2026,
at 10:00 a.m. (EST).



The “Digital Transformation” talk will explore 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?



We are honoured to welcome two keynote speakers:

Jamila Venturini (Derechos Digitales)

Madeleine Redfern (CanArctic Inuit Networks).



The webinar is free and open to the public. You can register here:
https://dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender-tech-digital-transformation/



The Gender & Tech Online Talk Series brings together leading scholars,
advocates, and practitioners to examine the intersections of gender,
technology, democracy, and human rights. Its purpose is to critically
explore how digital platforms and technological infrastructures impact
women, queer, and gender-diverse individuals, while also identifying
pathways toward more inclusive, rights-based models of digital governance. The
series is sponsored by the UVA DTD Lab.



The conversation will be conducted in English, but we can facilitate
questions submitted in Spanish, Portuguese and French.


We invite everyone interested in advancing equity and justice in tech
governance to participate in this important conversation.



Please feel free to share this announcement.



Thank you!

Jess and Yasmin


*Jess Reia, Ph.D.  (they/them)*

Andrew Carnegie Fellow <https://www.carnegie.org/awards/honoree/jess-reia/>
Assistant Professor of Data Science and Public Policy
Faculty co-lead, Digital Technology for Democracy Lab
<https://karshinstitute.virginia.edu/digital-technology-democracy-lab>,
University
of Virginia

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