DCitizens Summer School Attendees 2024 DCitizens is returning with a five-day training event in Lisbon, Portugal, that will explore the strategies and techniques to engage and work with communities to co-create, deploy, and evaluate civic technologies that seek to empower citizens in service provision and civic participation. This event will include a one-day Doctoral Consortium…
Doctoral Consortium 14th July 2025: The Doctoral Consortium is a unique opportunity for PhD students working in areas related to Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Civics, and Civic Technologies to present their ongoing research in a supportive and constructive environment. Participants will receive valuable feedback from senior researchers (mentors) and peers, engage in stimulating discussions, explore career…
Speakers Ana Henriques is currently a PhD student at the Interactive Technologies Institute/LARSyS, at the University of Lisbon, advised by Hugo Nicolau and Angelika Strohmayer. Ana has focused their research on the intersections of ethics, feminist HCI and community-based work while exploring what community-led ethics could look like as a process of feminist ethical frameworking…
Speaker Formerly of Google and Meta, Tiffany Knearem is a User Experience Researcher who holds a PhD in Information Sciences and Technology from Pennsylvania State University. Her recent publications span topics of human-AI alignment, AI-supported design workflows, and community informatics. She was recently featured in ACM’s Interactions Magazine and is a regular speaker at ACM conferences….
Following a successful session in Madeira, we are excited to host a two-day workshop at the Institute of Interactive Technologies (ITI) on January 30–31, 2025. The workshop, led by Professor Marty J. Wolf, Chair of the ACM Committee on Professional Ethics from the United States, will engage participants in critical discussions around ethics and responsibility…
???????? Versão em Português We are excited to announce a series of online civic engagement workshops for DCitizens. These are 2-hour workshops that will occur between February and March 2025, aiming to bring together a diverse group of participants from academia, the public and 3rd sector to discuss the role of digital technologies in areas…
The DCitizens project recently concluded a 3-day lab retreat in Genova, Italy from November 26 to 28, 2024. This lab retreat corresponded to the DCitizens yearly consortium meeting, and it was co-located with the Early Stage Researcher training, and research management training. The retreat was hosted by IIT at Center for Human Technologies (CHT). Consortium…
Speaker Dani Kalarikalayil Raju is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and a passionate HCI researcher based in India. His work focuses on community-centred participatory design of AI technologies, ensuring that innovations are inclusive and contextually relevant. Dani is the co-founder of Studio Hasi, a startup that partners with non-profit organisations and Indian communities to enable their meaningful…
Speaker Alex is a sociologist by training, with longstanding commitments to critically investigating and intervening in the proliferation of technology and machine intelligence. His work has been shaped most heavily by a critical yet hopeful scholarship in feminist technoscience, including works from Ruha Benjamin, Simone Browne, Vinciane Despret, Donna Haraway, and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. He’s…
Speakers Dr. Ana María Bustamante Duarte is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Design (ArqDis) at the Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia. During her PhD, she developed inclusive approaches to support forced migrants’ participation in the design of interactive geotechnologies that helped them to navigate their new host cities in Germany….