Payal Arora (Prof. Utrecht) will be delivering a public talk at Deakin University, Live streamed 13 June at 11:00AM AEST (9AM Beijing, and 6PM LA) on "Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech" https://www.youtube.com/live/p34wLqBzaE0 Presented by www.CDII.events, at Deakin University, Australia, Payal will speak to "Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” from her new book “From Pessimism to Promise" with Q&A from the room and the net. Abstract: When it comes to tech, the mainstream headlines are bleak: Algorithms control and oppress. AI will destroy democracy and our social fabric, and possibly even drive us to extinction. While legitimate concerns drive these fears, Payal Arora points out that we need to equally account for the fact that tech affords young people something incredibly valuable—a rare space for self-actualisation. Outside the West, where most of the world's youth reside, there is a significant different outlook on tech: in fact, there is a contagion of optimism toward all things digital. These users, especially those in marginalised contexts, are full of hope for new tech. As AI disrupts sectors across industries, education, and beyond, who better to shine the light forward, Arora argues, than the Global South, the navigator of all manner of forced disruptions, leapfrogging obstructive systems, norms, and practices to rapidly reinvent itself? Payal Arora is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University, and Co-Founder of FemLab, a feminist futures of work initiative. https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/PArora https://femlab.co <https://femlab.co/>