Rewiring our Digital Society for Social Justice

Launching Not-Equal project through two Symposia eventsin January 2019. Join us to hear & share responses

to aspects of social justice affected by developments in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence & Algorithmic Service Design. Generate ideas for funding proposals & form collaborations.

Launch Symposium - London Tuesday 29th January, 9am-5pmDigital Catapult, Euston RoadLondonFor more information and to register, go here

Launch Symposium - NewcastleThursday 31st January, 9am-5.30pmThe Core, Newcastle HelixNewcastle upon TyneFor more information and to register, go here

Algorithmic Social Justice

Digital Security for

all

Fairer futures for business &workforce

Launch symposia

Not-Equal is a national network that aims to support collaborations between communities and network partners, from civil society, academia and industry in order to develop practical responses to issues of fairness and justice in the design and use of digital technologies in everyday lives. As such, not-equal aspires to foster inclusive innovation and fairer futures for all in our digital societies.

Challenges Digital technologies present new challenges to the pursuit of social justice in everyday life, particularly in relation to computer-supported decision making, digital security and the future of work. Not-equal asks: How can digital services and technologies help making the decisions that affect us all, fairer? What type of digital security can ensure the safeguarding of all in our digital society? What kind of digital platforms may offer fairer working opportunities and conditions to us?

Activities Not-Equal will explore these questions by funding activities that bring together the perspectives of all sections of society and help develop responses that can make our digital society work for all.

Open Events - Funding are available to run workshops, community events, design sprints or hackathons to build capacity, explore new questions, ideas or an issue related to a challenge.Open Commissioning. Funds (up to 40£k) will support research activities and collaborations that respond to challenges and questions identified as important by communities and network partners.Youth and Community Engagement. These activities aim to support public debates and ensure community groups, youth groups and school pupils’ participation in Open Commissioning process.

Network activities will lead to new understandings, ideas and technologies that better align with fairness and social justice principles. Policy reports, drawing from activities’ outputs, will be written up to guide policy making and the UK digital society at a regulatory level.

Not-Equal is a project funded by UK Research and Innovation, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). For more information on funding opportunities and activities, contact us: notequal@newcastle.ac.uk or visit www.not-equal.tech

Rewiring our Digital Society for Social Justice

The Bits Leak Out: Infrastructures affecting Social Justice Thursday, 15th November 2018—10am-4pm Computational Foundry, Swansea University

open events

Rewiring our Digital Society for Social Justice

Events for researchers interested in social justice affected by developments in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence& Algorithmic Service Design, to hear funding opportunites

and help shape the agenda of Not-Equal.

This one-day event features talks by researchers and industry practitioners on the ways digital infrastructures affect social justice. Participants will also share understandings of Algorithmic Social Justice and explore collaborative responses.For more information and to register, go here.

Not-Equal: Sharing Perspectives, Exploring Responses Thursday, 29th November 2018 —12noon-3pm Ground floor, Event Space, Urban Sciences Building, Newcastle UniversityThis 3 hour workshop invites multi-disciplinary researchers to share perspectives on common interests and challenge areas and generate ideas for potential justice-enhancing collaborations. For more information and to register free, go here.