1st International Meeting on Digital Rights
On the occasion of the 1st International Meeting on Digital Rights, the Chair for Socially Responsible Digital Innovation (SoReDI) of Esade Business School has had an active participation in several key sessions of the programme, contributing to promote a critical and plural debate on the future of digital environments.
Chair director Liliana Arroyo named the curator of the keynote session “The Truth Behind the Algorithm: Who Decides Our Digital Future”, with an editorial introduction that placed the debate on the power of algorithms, technological governance and the need to guarantee more transparent and responsible processes. The session, with the participation of Frances Haugen, has on the table the importance of rethinking who takes the decisions that configure the digital ecosystem and with what criteria.
In addition, Liliana Arroyo featured the fireside chat “Inhabiting: life and identity digital environments”, together with Gabriel Ventura, a space for reflection on the construction of identity, relationships and life experience in digital contexts. The conversation explored the tensions between expression, authenticity and social pressures online, as well as the challenges this poses for individual and collective well-being.
His involvement also extended to the moderation of the round table “From Users tono Changemakers: Youth Redefining Digital Spaces”, where the transformative role of young people as active agents in the redefinition of digital spaces is valued. With the participation of Trisha Prabhu (online), Luisa Franco, Albert Beltran and Agustina Dellasanta, the session demonstrates the need to incorporate their voices in design and technological governance.
Together with Cristina Monta).ola (IQ), they organized the workshop “What Internet do We Deserve?”, co-moderated by Dr. Mireia Yter, postdoctoral researcher and project manager at SoReDI, and Xavier Casanovas Combalia (IQS). It was an open dialogue session focused on the limits of the current debate on digital citizenship. Based on questions such as age verification, anonymity, participation and the protection of childhood, the workshop brings together prominent voices from the social field to identify consensus and make possible lines of shared action.
With the participation of Noemí Puigdellivol (Free Mobile Adolescence), Simona Levi (Xnet), Francisco Villar (Sant Joan de Déu, Movimiento Off) and Hungria Panadero (Fundación Ferrer y Guardia), the session highlighted the importance of combining diverse perspectives to address in a comprehensive way the challenges of digital rights.