[Commlist] Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Symposium: A Manifesto for Inclusive Digital Futures: Global Conversations and Action on the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Symposium Series. The series will comprise of 
symposia showcasing research-driven education to find solutions to the 
world’s grand challenges.

This symposium will be presented by our College of Social Sciences on 
Wednesday 26 May and Thursday 27 May 2021 entitled 'A Manifesto for 
Inclusive Digital Futures: Global Conversations and Action on the Fourth 
Industrial Revolution'. Due to current government guidance, this 
symposium will take place online.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution may have the potential to stimulate 
economic growth and improve the quality of life among communities around 
the world, but it may also reinforce existing inequalities or even 
generate greater inequalities. It is therefore important that we act now 
and bring together diverse voices to find ways to develop inclusive 
and sustainable digital futures for all.

Join this conversation, the aim of this symposium is to pioneer and 
advance conversations from across the globe in order to imagine, and 
hopefully, collectively shape our digital futures.

At this global virtual symposium we will interact through keynote 
discussions, breakout sessions and networking to enable conversations 
that will shape and influence a Manifesto for Inclusive Digital Futures 
that are Beneficial for all across the Globe.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/lkas/lkassymposium/?utm_campaign=837300_LKAS

+++Schedule

Wednesday 26 May 2021

Time	Session	Speaker(s)
10:00 - 10:05 AM 	Introduction & Welcome 	Professor Bridgette Wessels
10:05 - 10:10 AM 	Vice Chancellor Welcome 	TBC
10:10 - 10:25 AM 	Keynote: The Fourth Turn: Five responses  	Professor 
Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge)
10:25 - 10:40 AM 	Keynote: Reimagining Human Development in the Fourth 
Industrial Revolution - AI and IA: Artificial Intelligence and Internet 
Access in Search for an inclusive Digital Future 	Professor Hopeton Dunn 
(University of Botswana)
10:40 - 10:50 AM 	Keynote Discussion 	Professor Bassett and Professor Dunn
10:50 - 11:00 AM 	Audience discussion with Keynote Speakers 	Professor 
Bassett and Professor Dunn
11:00 - 11:10 AM 	Coffee Break - informal networking opportunity 	
11:10 AM - 12:00 PM 	

Roundtable Session 1: Current Ideologies, negotiations, and 
differentiated experiences of the digital

    Current experiences and issues of the digital transformations in 
local contexts
    The problems, opportunities and appropriation/negotiation of the 
digital in context (e.g. Latin America, Africa, Asia)

	

Professor Gerard Goggin (University of Singapore)

Professor Payal Arora (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Professor Madeleine Murtagh (University of Glasgow)
12:00 - 12:30 PM  	Lunch, Chat and Networking (Optional) 	


Thursday 27 May 2021

Time	Session	Speaker(s)
1:00 - 1:05 PM 	Welcome 	Professor Bridgette Wessels
1:05 - 1:55 PM 	

Roundtable Session 2 Imaginaries and sustainable alternatives of digital 
futures (e.g. inclusive, just, enabling fuflilling)

What changes people want and what the concerns are?
	

Professor Simeon Yates (University of Liverpool)

Professor Robin Mansell (London School of Economics)

Dr Nick Bradshaw (AI Media Group)
1:55 - 2:05 PM 	Coffee break - informal networking opportunity (Optional) 	
2:05 - 2:55 PM 	

Roundtable Session 3: A global conversation around inclusive digital 
futures, and how can we come together to mobilise progressive and 
inclusive change

    Recommendations on actions, policies, and research agendas
    Bridging the perspectives and imaginaries of communities globally
    Considerations of how the global digital futures should be shaped

	

Professor Renata Avila (Stanford University)

Professor Richard Harper (Lancaster University)

Professor Jane Duncan (University of Johannesburg)
2:55 - 3:00 PM 	Final Remarks and Close of Event 	Professor Wessels
3:00 - 3:30 PM 	Chat and Networking (Optional) 	


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