I’ll be at the 2023 Data Justice Conference in Cardiff, Wales, where I will present “Institutional Ethnography & Data Justice: Concepts, Tensions, Practical Applications”
I’m presenting Co-design and Ethical Artificial Intelligence for Health: Myths and Misconceptions at AIES 2021.
This month I had the chance to visit Salt Galata, a contemporary art space occupying a former bank building in the Karaköy district of Istanbul. This work by Richard Whitby titled The Lost Ones was on, showing residency status assessments being carried out by an unforgiving, disembodied voice.
Through dark humour, it highlights the casual violence of bureaucratic processes that increasingly reduce complex lived realities data points and scores, and abstractions of eligibility, compliance, and risk, making visible how technical processes of classification are bound up with questions of belonging and exclusion, highlighting the politics of datafication and its impact on everyday life.
To improve our healthcare systems, we need to think bigger about the role of patient engagement. Engagement must be embedded in daily practice.
I wrote this op-ed for the Institute for Research on Public Policy's July issue of Policy Options.
Will AI automate inequality? An IRPP podcast on how can we ensure that digital innovations don't create a “digital poorhouse.”
"Design tools and methods are thus never, as most toolkits and models claim, value-neutral, but always arrive laden with political and cultural baggage" - Ahmed Ansari's post on the politics of design methods often overlooked by design professionals and those who use design tools alike.
Uninvited Guests is a short film that explores the frictions between a man and his smart home.
Have you heard of the term “young carer”? Chances are, you probably haven’t. Most people are not familiar with the term in Canada. But it isn’t just Canada; young carers are an invisible population worldwide and due to the lack of public awareness, their needs tend to go unrecognized.
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