We are now commencing the preparation for the Impact conference. The event will take place online and be modeled on the community-cocreated festival we conducted in 2019, with some elements of a more traditional conference (specially invited guest participants aka “speakers”). This Wiki is to be treated as the single-source of truth for the Impact Conference The wiki will be collaboratively developed as the event building work progresses. If you wish to draw the curation team’s attention to something, make proposals or requests etc - please post it in a comment below. This way we ensure that everyone is on the same page throughout the process, avoid messes with multiple document versions etc.
Next Generation Interdependencies
A co-created online event through which we make visible hidden/new connections between emerging (networked) technologies and…
issues and struggles (agency and movements)
people and spaces (physical, social and informational)
processes and stakeholders (legal, political and economic)
domains (of expertise, mandates and resources)
When and Where
Date: November 2021 (tbd) Location: Online ( exact where/which platform tbc, but we are sick of zoom)
UVP: We use SSNA as a method to it possible to see the whole, emergent patterns and details in a beautiful intuitive manner.
Running an event the Edgryders way offers unique advantages:
Interactive visualisations: Our research team provides visualisations of the conversations taking place as networks. Most people find these visualisations intuitive and beautiful.
Adapted for exploration: Our methodology is robust to ill-defined questions. Exploratory questions are allowed to take the center stage. Free-form conversation minimizes framing biases and encourages serendipitous discovery.
Scalable: Our approach and tools support large online conversations, with hundreds or thousands of participants. We use graph theory to aggregate them, and extract from them what is most important or unexpected.
Rigorous: Mining Semantic Social Networks yield qualitative and quantitative research. We apply network metrics to score and weigh the qualitative conclusions contributed by the team analysing the (open) data.
Open and accessible: all content is published and free to use under a CC-BY-3.0 license.
Privacy and consent: add blurb here about our data management policy, processes and tech
"We’re starting to work on the Impact Conf here: Impact Conference Program Development Wiki . A question re the NGI visions book: is there anything else you need from me/us at this point? The analysis/ insights we put into the community journalism deliverable is the “state of the art’ we have at this phase in the project…”
Towards the end of the year - October in order to give us enough time for production of final report and final dissemination materials. But we need confirmation from the rest of the consortium.
Defining forms of labour, work as space, work as time, work as movement, work as process, work as relationships
When we talk about the impact of technologies on the future of work, we must consider the complex ways in which they interact with and impact our health, welfare and wellbeing.
how current decisions and models around work affect the lived experiences of day-to-day work
how business models and regulatory principles shape the conditions of everyday labour.
how technologies and business models interact with and impact our environöentm health, welfare and wellbeing.
what alternatives are or could be improving conditions
The SSNA offers a visual map of the ways in which work is understood, and which Leonie defines across four categories - the fifth is :
work as space (physical and social)
work as movement (including access and agency)
work as time (including notions of acceleration, slowness and constraint)
work as process (legal, political, economic)
Addition from event curator:
work as activity (what is and what is not considered “work”)
Within the discussions about labour, a distinction is made between
everyday labour: the practicalities and lived experiences of day-to-day work and
top-level business models, policies and forms of regulation
Focus questions
What role will technology play in our ability not only to survive (to attain livelihoods, to establish systems of support, and to access to necessities), but to build abundant and sustainable ways of living?
What do we need digital technologies to allow us to do in order for us to work during crisis?
Role of exposure to digital technologies in community/collective mental health?
What are the challenges and responsibilities of institutions, companies and organisations to facilitate new forms of co-working and and co-living?
Now that many forms of labour have moved to online spaces, how do we ensure socioeconomic mobility?
as we look toward the future of work, what are our values? How do we ensure that our values are represented going forward? How can tech intervene to shape the future of work?
how is work currently regulated and how should these models change in the future?
Resilience, Welfare & Sustainability
We can’t talk about technologies without considering the complex ways in which they interact with and impact our health, welfare and wellbeing.
health,
environment,
infrastructure,
community-building (building collectivity)
Focus questions
What role will technology play in our ability not only to survive (to attain livelihoods, to establish systems of support, and to access to necessities), but to build abundant and sustainable ways of living?
how can we harness the potential of digital tools to improve our existing systems and pave the way towards a resilient and sustainable future?
role of exposure to digital technologies in community mental health. maintain social contact, to establish networks of support and build online communities. can also heighten anxiety, our sense of isolation and desires for human contact.
what perspectives are there on shared responsibility?
understanding the relationship between digital technology and public health
Access to healthcare: digital technologies can make access to crucial healthcare information more widely accessible. technologies allow us to track the spread of the virus and locate vaccination and testing sites. can offer quite a lot of agency to individuals and communities. technology may further exacerbate disparities in healthcare access. may also contribute to exploitative business practices
Looking at channels/ platforms for where to promote and host these events - So it seems that Linkedin now has two interesting options. Nb @ivan and @bojanbobic
We are free to suggest the date(s) that would work for us and then share with the consortium (especially Nesta Italia) to confirm and make sure it doesn’t coincide with any other big events.
