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Payal Arora is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University and co-founder of FemLab, a feminist futures of work initiative and the Inclusive AI Lab. She is a leading digital anthropologist with two decades of user-experience in the Global South. She is the author of award-winning books including ‘The Next Billion Users’ with Harvard Press. Forbes called her the ‘next billion champion’ and the ‘right kind of person to reform tech.’ About 150 international media outlets have covered her work including The Economist, Tech Crunch, and Boston Globe.
Her new book ‘From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech’ published with MIT Press and Harper Collins is now out in print. It proposes a radical paradigm shift in the way we think about AI tech, taking hope and inspiration from the aspirational users of new technologies around the world. It has received endorsements from both academia and industry, including from Prof. Gina Neff at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, Don Norman, the author of ‘Design of Everyday things,’ Charles Hayes, Executive Managing Director, Asia & Partner at IDEO, Leyla Acaroglu, Founder of Disrupt Design, and Arundhati Bhattacharya , Chairperson & CEO, Salesforce India. The book has received positive coverage from several international media outlets including with the Financial Times, BBC Tech Decoded, and Breitband.
From Pessimism to Promise (mit.edu)
The seminar takes place on the 25th of October from 11am - 12:20pm in the Interdisciplinary Lounge in Crombie Halls and on Microsoft Teams.
RSVP: If you are interested in attending please email interdisciplinary@abdn.ac.uk, indicating whether you will attend online or in person.
This seminar and book talk is supported by the Interdisciplinary Institute's centres for Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity and Data and Artificial Intelligence.