EPSRC NetworkPlus on Social Justice through the Digital Economy
Lead Research Organisation:
Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Computing
Abstract
Technological advances in Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, have already given rise to extensive socio-economic transformation and new and emerging technologies, such as distributed ledgers and the Internet of Things, are set to further revolutionise the information and service economy, and public services. Yet, technological innovation has the potential to also dis-benefit the most vulnerable, amplify existing forms of injustice and create new forms of exclusion in socio-economic life, thus further exacerbate socio-economic inequality and social division.
That the whole of society benefits from progress in the Digital Economy is national priority, both morally and economically as those who are most vulnerable have the greatest need of opportunities for socio-economic participation. Taking a Social Justice approach, this NetworkPlus focuses on how the design of new and emerging technologies in the Digital Economy, and their application, can empower, emancipate and more equitably distribute opportunities for economic development to all citizens, consumers and employees. This EPSRC NetworkPlus: Social Justice through the Digital Economy aims to bring together and resource partners from academia, industry, government and civil society to understand, explore and respond, together, to the potential of new and emerging technologies to make the UK socio-economic life fairer for all.
The NetworksPlus activities will focus on three challenge areas: Algorithmic Social Justice; Digital Security for All; Fairer Futures for Businesses and Workforces.
Algorithmic Social Justice examines fairness in the design and application of AI algorithms in automated and semi-automated decision-making processes. It asks how can large data sets be classified and interpreted to inform, for example, care or health interventions programs or city planning and how can AI algorithms be made less opaque and criteria used to design them fairer and transparent.
Digital Security for All investigates new and better ways to model digital security that increase people's sense of agency, while meeting their security needs and protection of assets in public and commercial online service delivery. For example, this challenge area asks in what ways can online services be designed to better support people's sense of agency and trust, while assuring security in sharing personal data online.
Fairer Futures for Businesses and Workforces considers how new 'sharing economy' platforms can be designed to realise more ethical business models and equal opportunities for economic development. For example, this theme asks what platforms can be designed to support peer-to-peer markets places that cater for those who have little or no assets; and what are the implications for a fair workforce representation in the digital era.
The NetworkPlus will enable new ways to support effective collaborations between academic and non-academic communities and organisations through a range of activities, including a curated series on events in the three thematic priorities and an innovative and more directed process of project commissioning. The NetworkPlus will deliver curated events and activities-including symposia, hands-on workshops, theory-hacks and design and development sprints, aiming to increase capacity, upskilling and foster trans-disciplinary dialogue, knowledge exchange between academic and non-academic communities as well as. The NetworkPlus will deliver a novel curated commissioning process of activities designed to support EPS doctoral researchers and Early Career Researchers developing impactful project proposals in partnership with industry, government, third sector and civil society.
That the whole of society benefits from progress in the Digital Economy is national priority, both morally and economically as those who are most vulnerable have the greatest need of opportunities for socio-economic participation. Taking a Social Justice approach, this NetworkPlus focuses on how the design of new and emerging technologies in the Digital Economy, and their application, can empower, emancipate and more equitably distribute opportunities for economic development to all citizens, consumers and employees. This EPSRC NetworkPlus: Social Justice through the Digital Economy aims to bring together and resource partners from academia, industry, government and civil society to understand, explore and respond, together, to the potential of new and emerging technologies to make the UK socio-economic life fairer for all.
The NetworksPlus activities will focus on three challenge areas: Algorithmic Social Justice; Digital Security for All; Fairer Futures for Businesses and Workforces.
Algorithmic Social Justice examines fairness in the design and application of AI algorithms in automated and semi-automated decision-making processes. It asks how can large data sets be classified and interpreted to inform, for example, care or health interventions programs or city planning and how can AI algorithms be made less opaque and criteria used to design them fairer and transparent.
Digital Security for All investigates new and better ways to model digital security that increase people's sense of agency, while meeting their security needs and protection of assets in public and commercial online service delivery. For example, this challenge area asks in what ways can online services be designed to better support people's sense of agency and trust, while assuring security in sharing personal data online.
Fairer Futures for Businesses and Workforces considers how new 'sharing economy' platforms can be designed to realise more ethical business models and equal opportunities for economic development. For example, this theme asks what platforms can be designed to support peer-to-peer markets places that cater for those who have little or no assets; and what are the implications for a fair workforce representation in the digital era.
The NetworkPlus will enable new ways to support effective collaborations between academic and non-academic communities and organisations through a range of activities, including a curated series on events in the three thematic priorities and an innovative and more directed process of project commissioning. The NetworkPlus will deliver curated events and activities-including symposia, hands-on workshops, theory-hacks and design and development sprints, aiming to increase capacity, upskilling and foster trans-disciplinary dialogue, knowledge exchange between academic and non-academic communities as well as. The NetworkPlus will deliver a novel curated commissioning process of activities designed to support EPS doctoral researchers and Early Career Researchers developing impactful project proposals in partnership with industry, government, third sector and civil society.
Planned Impact
The beneficiaries of our NetworkPlus: Social Justice through the Digital Economy NetworkPlus are social justice clients (e.g. Charities, National Government bodies and Local Authorities), technology and digital service providers (e.g. SMEs, National and Global Corporations) as well as (formally) un-constituted groups and organizations currently at the margins or altogether excluded from participation in technological innovation and opportunities for socio-economic growth and development (youth, adults with complex needs, aging population, low paid workers, etc.). The NetworkPlus brings value to its beneficiaries through its activities and outputs as follows.
(i) Public, private and third sector organisations and their service users will be able to explore the real-world problems they currently face within each identified challenge area with other experts and organisations who have different expertise but similar concerns through NetworkPlus activities (Symposia, and Open Event Program's Workshops, Theory Hacks and Design and Development Sprints);
(ii) Public, private and third sector organisations and their service users will benefit from participating in pilot /micro projects that directly responds to the specific challenges they face within each identified challenge area: e.g. qualitative studies to better understand issues of fairness in algorithm design and its applications; frameworks for the design and application of AI algorithms within a social justice framework; rapid prototyping and testing of novel and emerging technologies and/or the reconfiguration of existing technologies that applies social justice principles in automated decision-making or that create spaces for agency and trust in online services; new insights to inform policy recommendations for fairer business models and workforce representation in the digital economy.
(iii) NetworkPlus partners not directly involved in a micro/pilot project will benefit from NetworkPlus projects outputs (all with open IP), through our dissemination activities and through NetworkPlus parterns who will advocate and disseminate outputs to their own external networks.
(iv) Through our commissioned policy papers from all projects outputs, the NetworkPlus will benefit and contribute to the ongoing work of advocacy organizations, think tank and regulatory bodies working in each identified challenge area.
(v) Youth groups, primary and secondary school pupils will benefit from the NetworkPlus Youth Engagement Program. The pupils directly involved in our Youth Engagement pilot activities will benefit from spaces to both learn about the issues the NetworkPlus tackles and participate and influence digital innovations arising from NetworkPlus projects; the learning material that will be produced from the Youth Engagement Programme, will be then be piloted by 20 more schools (delivered by schools) with a view to a larger roll out.
(vi) Through our Project Assessment Citizen Panel and through our Community Champion engagement work, marginalized and underserved citizens will have a voice in shaping digital innovations that can ameliorate their lives.
(i) Public, private and third sector organisations and their service users will be able to explore the real-world problems they currently face within each identified challenge area with other experts and organisations who have different expertise but similar concerns through NetworkPlus activities (Symposia, and Open Event Program's Workshops, Theory Hacks and Design and Development Sprints);
(ii) Public, private and third sector organisations and their service users will benefit from participating in pilot /micro projects that directly responds to the specific challenges they face within each identified challenge area: e.g. qualitative studies to better understand issues of fairness in algorithm design and its applications; frameworks for the design and application of AI algorithms within a social justice framework; rapid prototyping and testing of novel and emerging technologies and/or the reconfiguration of existing technologies that applies social justice principles in automated decision-making or that create spaces for agency and trust in online services; new insights to inform policy recommendations for fairer business models and workforce representation in the digital economy.
(iii) NetworkPlus partners not directly involved in a micro/pilot project will benefit from NetworkPlus projects outputs (all with open IP), through our dissemination activities and through NetworkPlus parterns who will advocate and disseminate outputs to their own external networks.
(iv) Through our commissioned policy papers from all projects outputs, the NetworkPlus will benefit and contribute to the ongoing work of advocacy organizations, think tank and regulatory bodies working in each identified challenge area.
(v) Youth groups, primary and secondary school pupils will benefit from the NetworkPlus Youth Engagement Program. The pupils directly involved in our Youth Engagement pilot activities will benefit from spaces to both learn about the issues the NetworkPlus tackles and participate and influence digital innovations arising from NetworkPlus projects; the learning material that will be produced from the Youth Engagement Programme, will be then be piloted by 20 more schools (delivered by schools) with a view to a larger roll out.
(vi) Through our Project Assessment Citizen Panel and through our Community Champion engagement work, marginalized and underserved citizens will have a voice in shaping digital innovations that can ameliorate their lives.
Organisations
- Newcastle University (Collaboration, Lead Research Organisation)
- James Hutton Institute (Collaboration)
- Citizens UK (Collaboration)
- Co-operatives UK (Collaboration)
- Melissa Network (Collaboration)
- Espacio Nixso (Collaboration)
- University of Warwick (Collaboration)
- SCOTTISH CROFTING FEDERATION (Collaboration)
- Filament AI (Collaboration)
- The Open University (Collaboration)
- Cambridge Spark (Collaboration)
- Lancaster University (Collaboration)
- Future City Logistics (Collaboration)
- Royal Holloway, University of London (Collaboration)
- University of East Anglia (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- Space 2 (UK) Ltd (Collaboration)
- IG Metall (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Collaboration)
- New Economics Foundation (Collaboration)
- City, University of London (Collaboration)
- NewBridge Project, Newcastle (Collaboration)
- BPO Insolvency Ltd (Collaboration)
- SWANSEA UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Media Lab MX (Collaboration)
- University of Hertfordshire (Collaboration)
- Furtherfield (Collaboration)
- Cardiff University (Collaboration)
- The Old Low Light (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- Future Generations Commissioner of Wales (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration)
- Gaia Foundation (Collaboration)
- Newcastle West End Foodbank (Collaboration)
- Speakeasy Law Centre (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- Miralis Data (Collaboration)
- NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- National Institute for Health Research (Collaboration)
- Spitafields City Farm (Collaboration)
- Angelou Centre (Collaboration)
- C-innova (Collaboration)
- University of the Third Age (Collaboration)
- We and AI (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF YORK (Collaboration)
- Sunderland City Council (Project Partner)
- Google (United States) (Project Partner)
- 2P2 Lab (Project Partner)
- Involve North East (Project Partner)
- Involve (Project Partner)
- Meadow Well Connected (Project Partner)
- Fulfilling Lives Newcastle Gateshead (Project Partner)
- Arup Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Proboscis (Project Partner)
- IT University of Copenhagen (Project Partner)
- National Ugly Mugs (Project Partner)
- WEvolution (Project Partner)
- Royal Town Planning Institute (Project Partner)
- VONNE (Voluntary Org Network North East) (Project Partner)
- The Manchester Men's Room (Project Partner)
- Talk for a Change (Project Partner)
- British Broadcasting Corporation (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Northumberland County Council (Project Partner)
- Citizens Advice Bureau Gateshead (Project Partner)
- Sunderland Software City (Project Partner)
- Sustrans (Project Partner)
- Consult and Design (Project Partner)
- Fossbox (Project Partner)
- Digital Catapult (Project Partner)
- Newcastle City Council (Project Partner)
- Gateshead Council (Project Partner)
- Ratio Research CIC (Project Partner)
- Voda (Project Partner)
- Demos Helsinky (Project Partner)
- Futuregov (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Research for the Future (Project Partner)
- Arjuna Technologies Ltd (Project Partner)
- Xtend (Project Partner)
Publications
Bates O
(2021)
Lessons From One Future of Work: Opportunities to Flip the Gig Economy
in IEEE Pervasive Computing
Bates O
(2020)
Let's start talking the walk
Choi J
(2022)
Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance
Crivellaro C
(2019)
Not-equal democratizing research in digital innovation for social justice
in Interactions
Dix A
(2018)
Deep digitality fate, fiat, and foundry
in Interactions
Heitlinger S
(2022)
Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance
| Title | Rivers of Light - Equally Digital, Digitally Equal |
| Description | A public poetry performance at Rivers of Light in Gipton Leed using megaphones created by the project to show how the pandemic has affected us. This event was hosted in Leeds but broadcast to our collaborators in Latin America. Here the voices of residents of one of Leeds most deprived areas echoes through a live stream and into the workplaces of our collaborators |
| Type Of Art | Performance (Music, Dance, Drama, etc) |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | This project is continuing work with a £75k British Council project project enabling live and remote collaborations around a shared installation and event. |
| Description | This network+ grant enabled explorations of how new and emergent technologies can be designed and configured to support social justice in digital societies. The network+ focused on three interrelated challenge areas examining; fairness in blockchain and AI supported decision-making processes; ways to design digital security that increase people's agency; and how 'sharing economy' platforms can be designed to realise equity for workforces. Across the range of funded projects and activities supported by the Network+, we have learnt a great deal about the systemic challenges and opportunities that shape conditions for technologies to support social justice and positive outcome in our digital societies. For example, the way policies can work against technologies' potential to support more equitable relations in digital societies; or the way the pragmatics of social justice - including co-production of research with seldom-heard population - evolve as technologies and their impact change. While there can be many approaches to foster social justice values in technology design, that target different centres of power at different scales (empowering communities to re-think the logic of technologies at the interaction level, or targeting technology developers and decision-makers, to create digital systems that support constructive relations respectively at the meso, and macro level). One key challenge remain how these different efforts can be connected to one another and how therefore responsibility can be distributed among the range of actors, agents and communities more effectively and equitably. The project explored novel ways to involve community members in the commissioning of research and we found that beside general public appetite to take part in such processes, there are many soft outcomes ensuing form this research such as fostering public debates and reflection on technologies potential to bring societal benefits. The network championed representation of ECRs and under-represented communities with 13 projects (72%) having led or co-led by ECRs and 10 projects (55%) led by female. |
| Exploitation Route | Many network members have already developed proposals (and in a couple of cases won awards) that take forward the learning generated through their project funded by N+. Some of the insights from the N+ has helped flesh out research directions that take a systemic approach to technology design for societal benefit. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| URL | https://not-equal.tech/ |
| Description | Societal impact was intrinsic in the design of the pilot projects funded through this NetworkPlus due to the collaborative nature of co-production of research between academic and non-academic partners. All the 18 funded projects within this award included collaborations with third sector, public sector and industry. Many of the funded projects have gone to develop their ideas further into funding proposals, publish articles and books (some of these early outcomes already in this research fish submission). Outputs from research projects funded through this NetworkPlus enabled third sectors and public sector organisation gaining new insights and experimenting with new tools and methodologies. These have been tested and, in some cases, incorporated or used to improve their services. For example, a collaboration between the Third Sector organisation Old Low Light and Northumbria University developed peer-to-peer tools and processes to help older adults stay safe online, which has been integrated as part of their services. Other collaborations between Cardiff University and Commissioner of the Future Generation Acts (FGA) in Wales have explored potential policy interventions in relation to the role of technology in the FGA, by focusing on three areas at the intersection of the FGA and data justice: 1) Models of public engagement; 2) Public procurement processes; 3) Data governance frameworks (e.g. data trusts, public ownership). The project highlighted best practice and policy recommendations that have led to further research collaborations. Another example, is the outputs developed from the Fake News project have led to further collaboration with Education Scotland, Higher Horizons and the National Teaching Forum to advertise the materials. Early impact measure of the research conducted as part of this NetworkPlus includes Third Sectors organisations such as the New Economy Foundation (London) and Space 2 (Leeds) using insights from the research to successfully gaining funding or taking up novel methods and technologies developed over the course of the pilot projects, as in the case of the work delivered by the team in Equally Digital/Digitally Equal. Collaborations with Vonne have led to ongoing collaborations exploring dialogical approaches to socio-technical systems that enable social sectors organisation realising value from their data, to improve their services in dialogue with beneficiaries and help shape advocacy actions. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2021 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) |
| Amount | £49,708 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | IAAOCT27-002 |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2023 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Centre for Digital Citizens - Next Stage Digital Economy Centre |
| Amount | £3,797,252 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T022582/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2020 |
| End | 10/2025 |
| Description | GNCA internal grant (Dr Joanne Armitage PI) |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Research England (Dr Joanne Armitage PI) |
| Amount | £35,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Title | Community Panel |
| Description | Transcripts and reviews by participants |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Community_Panel/13562756 |
| Title | Community Panel |
| Description | Transcripts and reviews by participants |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://data.ncl.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Community_Panel/13562756/1 |
| Title | Just Public Algorithms project database of cases |
| Description | Description and analysis of 77 cases of public engagement with the use of algorithms in public services in the UK 2013-2020. Analysis includes the kinds of public engagement represented, the public service domains they cover, the kinds of citizens engaged, the technical focus of the engagement, and the potential benefits and risks of these approaches raised in the engagements. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Just_Public_Algorithms_project_database_of_cases/14438777 |
| Title | Just Public Algorithms project database of cases |
| Description | Description and analysis of 77 cases of public engagement with the use of algorithms in public services in the UK 2013-2020. Analysis includes the kinds of public engagement represented, the public service domains they cover, the kinds of citizens engaged, the technical focus of the engagement, and the potential benefits and risks of these approaches raised in the engagements. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Just_Public_Algorithms_project_database_of_cases/14438777/1 |
| Description | Advancing Data Justice in the Future Generations Act |
| Organisation | Cardiff University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Advancing Data Justice in the Future Generations Act Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Lina Dencik (Cardiff University) and the Future Generations Commissioner of Wales. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project will explore potential policy interventions in relation to the role of technology in the Future Generations Act (FGA). It will do so by focusing on three strategic areas at the intersection of the FGA and data justice: 1) Models of public engagement (e.g citizen juries, task forces); 2) Public procurement processes (e.g. impact assessments, expert consultations); 3) Data governance frameworks (e.g. data trusts, public ownership). Based on document and policy analysis as well as interviews with stakeholders including policy-makers and public sector bodies and a policy-hacking workshop, the project will identify best practices and provide policy recommendations in relation to each of these three areas. |
| Impact | A comprehensive report was written based on the research carried out for the project. The report summarises policy debates and interview findings and provides a brief discussion on the implications of the findings. https://datajusticelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FutureGenerationsReport-Final-1.pdf As part of the project, a virtual policy hacking workshop was organised to help inform recommendations based on the research findings. Over forty individuals were invited from Welsh public sector, local and central government and civil society. https://datajusticelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Workshop-Summary.pdf |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Advancing Data Justice in the Future Generations Act |
| Organisation | Future Generations Commissioner of Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Advancing Data Justice in the Future Generations Act Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Lina Dencik (Cardiff University) and the Future Generations Commissioner of Wales. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project will explore potential policy interventions in relation to the role of technology in the Future Generations Act (FGA). It will do so by focusing on three strategic areas at the intersection of the FGA and data justice: 1) Models of public engagement (e.g citizen juries, task forces); 2) Public procurement processes (e.g. impact assessments, expert consultations); 3) Data governance frameworks (e.g. data trusts, public ownership). Based on document and policy analysis as well as interviews with stakeholders including policy-makers and public sector bodies and a policy-hacking workshop, the project will identify best practices and provide policy recommendations in relation to each of these three areas. |
| Impact | A comprehensive report was written based on the research carried out for the project. The report summarises policy debates and interview findings and provides a brief discussion on the implications of the findings. https://datajusticelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FutureGenerationsReport-Final-1.pdf As part of the project, a virtual policy hacking workshop was organised to help inform recommendations based on the research findings. Over forty individuals were invited from Welsh public sector, local and central government and civil society. https://datajusticelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Workshop-Summary.pdf |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Between Digital Platforms and the Deep Sea |
| Organisation | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Between Digital Platforms and the Deep Sea project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Yingqin Zheng (Royal Holloway, University of London), Shyam Krishna (RHUL), Indian Fishermen Association and Chennai-India (Community and Labour Organisation). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to examine the fairness of gig-work carried out via digital platforms in the south Indian city of Chennai among marginal workers who are traditionally fishery workers. It will identify fair or unfair practices resulting from the algorithmic control of work and its impact on working conditions. Specifically it will carry out interviews with former fishermen who have become delivery riders in order to find out: what social justice issues are faced by the workers, what are the fairness implications for platform design, policy regulation and workers' association. The researcher will also become a rider himself, thus adding direct observation and personal insights to the data. Photo and video diaries will be used to record the daily experience of being on the road, interacting with the algorithm, spatial navigation of the city and interaction with customers, as well as participant observation as a member embedded within the rider community. Research will centre on Chennai's active fisher community, whose existing marginalisation is due to several factors; the dwindling and uncertain revenues from fishing, the risks involved in work at sea and the caste-based nature of traditional fishing occupation. |
| Impact | The team have conducted 27 interviews with gig workers and have written a report that will be sent to policy makers. Publication: Spatiotemporal (In)justice in Digital Platforms: An Analysis of Food-Delivery Platforms in South India: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-64697-4_11 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CinCity |
| Organisation | Citizens UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the CinCity Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Artemis Skarlatidou (University College London), Reka Solymosi (Univ. of Manchester), Schools in East London (members of Citizens UK network) and Froi Legaspi (Citizens UK). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Civic InnovatioN in CommunITY: safety, policing and trust with young people (CinCity) aims to work with young people to understand the multiple dimensions of knife crime and help young people's voices be heard in order to influence a public health approach to the problem. Specifically, it will gain insight into how young people perceive and experience knife crime and how it influences their quality of lives. Using the Mental Models (MM) approach - used in Risk Communication - to understand their knife crime perceptions and issues of distrust, it will explore their suggestions for improving their safety, security and trust. Insights will be shared with the broader community in East London, police officials and the wider academic community. The project will collaboratively modify and co-design our Fear of Crime App (FoCA) to collect MM data from over 200 participants in East London together with their situational knife crime experiences. |
| Impact | CinCity has hosted 8 engagement workshops with 20 young people and 5 police officials and 2 networking events with local communities about tackling knife crime. Further engagements included involving 50 young people in data collection activities to tackle knife crime. Publication: https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287211029873 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CinCity |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the CinCity Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Artemis Skarlatidou (University College London), Reka Solymosi (Univ. of Manchester), Schools in East London (members of Citizens UK network) and Froi Legaspi (Citizens UK). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Civic InnovatioN in CommunITY: safety, policing and trust with young people (CinCity) aims to work with young people to understand the multiple dimensions of knife crime and help young people's voices be heard in order to influence a public health approach to the problem. Specifically, it will gain insight into how young people perceive and experience knife crime and how it influences their quality of lives. Using the Mental Models (MM) approach - used in Risk Communication - to understand their knife crime perceptions and issues of distrust, it will explore their suggestions for improving their safety, security and trust. Insights will be shared with the broader community in East London, police officials and the wider academic community. The project will collaboratively modify and co-design our Fear of Crime App (FoCA) to collect MM data from over 200 participants in East London together with their situational knife crime experiences. |
| Impact | CinCity has hosted 8 engagement workshops with 20 young people and 5 police officials and 2 networking events with local communities about tackling knife crime. Further engagements included involving 50 young people in data collection activities to tackle knife crime. Publication: https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287211029873 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CinCity |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the CinCity Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Artemis Skarlatidou (University College London), Reka Solymosi (Univ. of Manchester), Schools in East London (members of Citizens UK network) and Froi Legaspi (Citizens UK). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Civic InnovatioN in CommunITY: safety, policing and trust with young people (CinCity) aims to work with young people to understand the multiple dimensions of knife crime and help young people's voices be heard in order to influence a public health approach to the problem. Specifically, it will gain insight into how young people perceive and experience knife crime and how it influences their quality of lives. Using the Mental Models (MM) approach - used in Risk Communication - to understand their knife crime perceptions and issues of distrust, it will explore their suggestions for improving their safety, security and trust. Insights will be shared with the broader community in East London, police officials and the wider academic community. The project will collaboratively modify and co-design our Fear of Crime App (FoCA) to collect MM data from over 200 participants in East London together with their situational knife crime experiences. |
| Impact | CinCity has hosted 8 engagement workshops with 20 young people and 5 police officials and 2 networking events with local communities about tackling knife crime. Further engagements included involving 50 young people in data collection activities to tackle knife crime. Publication: https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287211029873 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Co-Designing a Food Delivery Platform Co-operative |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Co-Designing a Food Delivery Platform Co-operative Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between James Muldoon (University of Exeter) and Autonomy Think Tank. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Through co-design methods the project will provide a road map for the creation for the democratic governance structure of platform co-operatives that draws on the best practices and ideas within the digital co-operative economy. Through qualitative insights, the project will draw requirement for design and rapid prototyping of digital innovation to test concepts. |
| Impact | The research project has been successful in achieving its major research objectives and produced two important outputs: a policy paper and a report for co-operatives. The policy paper is entitled "Delivering Rights: Alternatives in the Online Food Economy" and was the result of extensive desk research and interviews with workers at co-operatives concerning how to best support their businesses and the co-operative sector. The second major output produced by the project was a report, "How to Launch a Food Delivery Co-operative" which brings together all of the evidence we have collected from emerging businesses in this field in the form of a practical and user-friendly guide for new co-operatives. https://autonomy.work/portfolio/foodcoop/ |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Co-designing a Sustainable Food Justice System with Blockchain Futures |
| Organisation | City, University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Algorithmic Food Justice Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Sara Heitlinger (City, University of London), Alex Taylor (City, University of London), Lara Houston (City, University of London), Spitalfields City Farm, Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield) and Gaia Foundation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to understand how algorithms play into the production and distribution of food and will explore the possibilities for more sustainable and just ways to achieve food sovereignty and security. Specifically it will conduct an exploratory pilot project with urban agricultural communities in London involving a series of co-design workshops. The project will experiment with alternative configurations of humans and non-humans such as plants, animals and soil, as well as technologies and their infrastructures, with a view to distributing control of resources more evenly and promoting autonomy. An algorithmic approach to creating a sustainable food justice system using blockchain will be explored in a cross-disciplinary approach, drawing on methods from art and design, science and technology studies (STS) and computer science. |
| Impact | Sara Heitlinger has delivered 3 workshops around the title topic and launched a website dedicated to the outputs from the project. Ruth Catlow has delivered 2 talks about the project at international events. https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/29944/ https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445655 https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529216073.ch024 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003055907 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Co-designing a Sustainable Food Justice System with Blockchain Futures |
| Organisation | Furtherfield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Algorithmic Food Justice Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Sara Heitlinger (City, University of London), Alex Taylor (City, University of London), Lara Houston (City, University of London), Spitalfields City Farm, Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield) and Gaia Foundation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to understand how algorithms play into the production and distribution of food and will explore the possibilities for more sustainable and just ways to achieve food sovereignty and security. Specifically it will conduct an exploratory pilot project with urban agricultural communities in London involving a series of co-design workshops. The project will experiment with alternative configurations of humans and non-humans such as plants, animals and soil, as well as technologies and their infrastructures, with a view to distributing control of resources more evenly and promoting autonomy. An algorithmic approach to creating a sustainable food justice system using blockchain will be explored in a cross-disciplinary approach, drawing on methods from art and design, science and technology studies (STS) and computer science. |
| Impact | Sara Heitlinger has delivered 3 workshops around the title topic and launched a website dedicated to the outputs from the project. Ruth Catlow has delivered 2 talks about the project at international events. https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/29944/ https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445655 https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529216073.ch024 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003055907 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Co-designing a Sustainable Food Justice System with Blockchain Futures |
| Organisation | Gaia Foundation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Algorithmic Food Justice Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Sara Heitlinger (City, University of London), Alex Taylor (City, University of London), Lara Houston (City, University of London), Spitalfields City Farm, Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield) and Gaia Foundation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to understand how algorithms play into the production and distribution of food and will explore the possibilities for more sustainable and just ways to achieve food sovereignty and security. Specifically it will conduct an exploratory pilot project with urban agricultural communities in London involving a series of co-design workshops. The project will experiment with alternative configurations of humans and non-humans such as plants, animals and soil, as well as technologies and their infrastructures, with a view to distributing control of resources more evenly and promoting autonomy. An algorithmic approach to creating a sustainable food justice system using blockchain will be explored in a cross-disciplinary approach, drawing on methods from art and design, science and technology studies (STS) and computer science. |
| Impact | Sara Heitlinger has delivered 3 workshops around the title topic and launched a website dedicated to the outputs from the project. Ruth Catlow has delivered 2 talks about the project at international events. https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/29944/ https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445655 https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529216073.ch024 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003055907 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Co-designing a Sustainable Food Justice System with Blockchain Futures |
| Organisation | Spitafields City Farm |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Algorithmic Food Justice Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Sara Heitlinger (City, University of London), Alex Taylor (City, University of London), Lara Houston (City, University of London), Spitalfields City Farm, Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield) and Gaia Foundation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to understand how algorithms play into the production and distribution of food and will explore the possibilities for more sustainable and just ways to achieve food sovereignty and security. Specifically it will conduct an exploratory pilot project with urban agricultural communities in London involving a series of co-design workshops. The project will experiment with alternative configurations of humans and non-humans such as plants, animals and soil, as well as technologies and their infrastructures, with a view to distributing control of resources more evenly and promoting autonomy. An algorithmic approach to creating a sustainable food justice system using blockchain will be explored in a cross-disciplinary approach, drawing on methods from art and design, science and technology studies (STS) and computer science. |
| Impact | Sara Heitlinger has delivered 3 workshops around the title topic and launched a website dedicated to the outputs from the project. Ruth Catlow has delivered 2 talks about the project at international events. https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/29944/ https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445655 https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529216073.ch024 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003055907 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Covid 19 Debt Advice |
| Organisation | BPO Insolvency Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Cpvid 19 Debt Advice project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Adam Wyner (Swansea University), Richard Owen (Swansea University) Patrick O'Brien (BPO Insolvency Ltd) and The Speakeasy Law Centre |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project aims to support greater capacity in pro-bono clinics by developing, evaluating, and deploying an online Covid-19 debt advice tool. Using the tool, users will receive a tailored legal debt advice document with information about the law, links to forms, and recommended actions based on their needs. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Law and Computing Outputs: Covid-19 Info Debt Triage tool: http://cs-debthelper.swan.ac.uk/ Outputs: Supporting Online Legal Aid https://sites.google.com/view/sail-2021/invited-talks |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Covid 19 Debt Advice |
| Organisation | Speakeasy Law Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Cpvid 19 Debt Advice project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Adam Wyner (Swansea University), Richard Owen (Swansea University) Patrick O'Brien (BPO Insolvency Ltd) and The Speakeasy Law Centre |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project aims to support greater capacity in pro-bono clinics by developing, evaluating, and deploying an online Covid-19 debt advice tool. Using the tool, users will receive a tailored legal debt advice document with information about the law, links to forms, and recommended actions based on their needs. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Law and Computing Outputs: Covid-19 Info Debt Triage tool: http://cs-debthelper.swan.ac.uk/ Outputs: Supporting Online Legal Aid https://sites.google.com/view/sail-2021/invited-talks |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Covid 19 Debt Advice |
| Organisation | Swansea University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Cpvid 19 Debt Advice project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Adam Wyner (Swansea University), Richard Owen (Swansea University) Patrick O'Brien (BPO Insolvency Ltd) and The Speakeasy Law Centre |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project aims to support greater capacity in pro-bono clinics by developing, evaluating, and deploying an online Covid-19 debt advice tool. Using the tool, users will receive a tailored legal debt advice document with information about the law, links to forms, and recommended actions based on their needs. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary Collaboration: Law and Computing Outputs: Covid-19 Info Debt Triage tool: http://cs-debthelper.swan.ac.uk/ Outputs: Supporting Online Legal Aid https://sites.google.com/view/sail-2021/invited-talks |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Creating and Understanding CyberGuardians in Communities |
| Organisation | Northumbria University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Cyberguardians Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Dr. James Nicholson (Northumbria University), University of the Third Age (U3A) and The Old Low Light. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to support older digital users in becoming cybersecurity guardians (or 'CyberGuardians') for their local community and to organically train other older users in this practice. Specifically, it will train older volunteers (55+ years) to become CyberGuardians over several weeks through dynamic workshops that will inform them about relevant cybersecurity threats and how to counter them. |
| Impact | James Nicholson has hosted 4 workshops to train 14 Cyberguardians. These guardians have now hosted a workshop & awareness events about Cybersecurity providing advice and information to approximately 470 unique citizens. Additionally, the citizens who spoke with the CyberGuardians reported discussing this advice and information with a further 350 people. In total, this means the 14 CyberGuardians disseminated good quality cybersecurity information to approximately 820 people in 9 months. This work has also led to James being featured on a Podcast and a BBC news item. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3393914.3395871 https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445078 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Creating and Understanding CyberGuardians in Communities |
| Organisation | The Old Low Light |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Cyberguardians Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Dr. James Nicholson (Northumbria University), University of the Third Age (U3A) and The Old Low Light. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to support older digital users in becoming cybersecurity guardians (or 'CyberGuardians') for their local community and to organically train other older users in this practice. Specifically, it will train older volunteers (55+ years) to become CyberGuardians over several weeks through dynamic workshops that will inform them about relevant cybersecurity threats and how to counter them. |
| Impact | James Nicholson has hosted 4 workshops to train 14 Cyberguardians. These guardians have now hosted a workshop & awareness events about Cybersecurity providing advice and information to approximately 470 unique citizens. Additionally, the citizens who spoke with the CyberGuardians reported discussing this advice and information with a further 350 people. In total, this means the 14 CyberGuardians disseminated good quality cybersecurity information to approximately 820 people in 9 months. This work has also led to James being featured on a Podcast and a BBC news item. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3393914.3395871 https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445078 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Creating and Understanding CyberGuardians in Communities |
| Organisation | University of The Third Age |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Cyberguardians Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Dr. James Nicholson (Northumbria University), University of the Third Age (U3A) and The Old Low Light. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to support older digital users in becoming cybersecurity guardians (or 'CyberGuardians') for their local community and to organically train other older users in this practice. Specifically, it will train older volunteers (55+ years) to become CyberGuardians over several weeks through dynamic workshops that will inform them about relevant cybersecurity threats and how to counter them. |
| Impact | James Nicholson has hosted 4 workshops to train 14 Cyberguardians. These guardians have now hosted a workshop & awareness events about Cybersecurity providing advice and information to approximately 470 unique citizens. Additionally, the citizens who spoke with the CyberGuardians reported discussing this advice and information with a further 350 people. In total, this means the 14 CyberGuardians disseminated good quality cybersecurity information to approximately 820 people in 9 months. This work has also led to James being featured on a Podcast and a BBC news item. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3393914.3395871 https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445078 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge |
| Organisation | IG Metall |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | This project will formally institute a 'Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge' for the purpose of improving wages for crowdworkers, thus ensuring fairer futures for digital workers in the platform economy. Given the transnational nature of crowdwork, working conditions and pay are difficult to regulate. Voluntary yet enforceable regulation has proven effective to improve crowdworking. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Jamie Woodcock (Open University) and Six Silberman (IG Metall). |
| Impact | Prototype web application for the 'Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge' (https://github.com/fiveplusone/crowdsourcing-wage-pledge-prototype). |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge |
| Organisation | Open University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This project will formally institute a 'Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge' for the purpose of improving wages for crowdworkers, thus ensuring fairer futures for digital workers in the platform economy. Given the transnational nature of crowdwork, working conditions and pay are difficult to regulate. Voluntary yet enforceable regulation has proven effective to improve crowdworking. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Jamie Woodcock (Open University) and Six Silberman (IG Metall). |
| Impact | Prototype web application for the 'Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge' (https://github.com/fiveplusone/crowdsourcing-wage-pledge-prototype). |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Designing Security Infrastructures for Communities with Sensitive Data |
| Organisation | Angelou Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Designing Security Infrastructures for Communities with Sensitive Data Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Vasilis Vlachokyriakos (Newcastle University) Rachel Clarke (Newcastle University), Angelou Centre, Melissa Network, Sociality |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project aims to explore design requirements for safe sharing of sensitive data within organisations providing support to migrant women subjected to domestic violence in the UK and Greece. The project aims to create opportunities for mutual learning around safe data sharing between migrant women's support organisations in the UK and Greece and based on insights it will develop a digital prototype for safe and secure sharing fo sensitive data. |
| Impact | Project generated a comprehensive prototype data repository which includes data delegation functionality and an encrypted device-to-device chat, to support positive interactions with sensitive data. Open Source code can be found here: https://www.desic.io/ |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Designing Security Infrastructures for Communities with Sensitive Data |
| Organisation | Melissa Network |
| Country | Greece |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Designing Security Infrastructures for Communities with Sensitive Data Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Vasilis Vlachokyriakos (Newcastle University) Rachel Clarke (Newcastle University), Angelou Centre, Melissa Network, Sociality |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project aims to explore design requirements for safe sharing of sensitive data within organisations providing support to migrant women subjected to domestic violence in the UK and Greece. The project aims to create opportunities for mutual learning around safe data sharing between migrant women's support organisations in the UK and Greece and based on insights it will develop a digital prototype for safe and secure sharing fo sensitive data. |
| Impact | Project generated a comprehensive prototype data repository which includes data delegation functionality and an encrypted device-to-device chat, to support positive interactions with sensitive data. Open Source code can be found here: https://www.desic.io/ |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Designing Security Infrastructures for Communities with Sensitive Data |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Designing Security Infrastructures for Communities with Sensitive Data Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Vasilis Vlachokyriakos (Newcastle University) Rachel Clarke (Newcastle University), Angelou Centre, Melissa Network, Sociality |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project aims to explore design requirements for safe sharing of sensitive data within organisations providing support to migrant women subjected to domestic violence in the UK and Greece. The project aims to create opportunities for mutual learning around safe data sharing between migrant women's support organisations in the UK and Greece and based on insights it will develop a digital prototype for safe and secure sharing fo sensitive data. |
| Impact | Project generated a comprehensive prototype data repository which includes data delegation functionality and an encrypted device-to-device chat, to support positive interactions with sensitive data. Open Source code can be found here: https://www.desic.io/ |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Different Explanations |
| Organisation | Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Different Explanations Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Hugh Shanahan (Royal Holloway, University of London), David Denney (Royal Holloway, University of London), Jun Zhao, Menisha Patel, University of Oxford and Entrust Project |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to come up with a set of recommendations for policies that will help to combat bias in algorithms and the lack of understanding around how algorithmic processes work. Specifically, it will investigate how policies on algorithm behaviour can be formulated to be fair in areas such as Policing and Social Housing. This project will identify who is affected by this problem and find out what they need, before going on to establish a set of practical criteria for policy-makers based on this. It will not discourage the use of algorithms in decision-making but will encourage an awareness that they are imperfect tools. A one-day workshop will generate a set of policy-based Use Cases as well as identifying the key stakeholders, what their requirements are and their level of expertise. It would also consider what other factors communities feel are important in the interests of fairness. |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Different Explanations |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Different Explanations Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Hugh Shanahan (Royal Holloway, University of London), David Denney (Royal Holloway, University of London), Jun Zhao, Menisha Patel, University of Oxford and Entrust Project |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to come up with a set of recommendations for policies that will help to combat bias in algorithms and the lack of understanding around how algorithmic processes work. Specifically, it will investigate how policies on algorithm behaviour can be formulated to be fair in areas such as Policing and Social Housing. This project will identify who is affected by this problem and find out what they need, before going on to establish a set of practical criteria for policy-makers based on this. It will not discourage the use of algorithms in decision-making but will encourage an awareness that they are imperfect tools. A one-day workshop will generate a set of policy-based Use Cases as well as identifying the key stakeholders, what their requirements are and their level of expertise. It would also consider what other factors communities feel are important in the interests of fairness. |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Equally Digital/Digitally Equal (ED/DE) |
| Organisation | C-innova |
| Country | Colombia |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the ED/DE Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Joanne Armitage, University of Leeds, Helen Thornham (University of Leeds), Chris Birchall (University of Leeds), Space 2 (UK), Espacio Nixso (Argentina), C-Innova (Colombia) and Media Lab MX (Mexico) |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project evaluated digital inclusion practices and methods to develop new sharable and collaborative practices fit for the current global pandemic. The project will ask how the lived necessity of digital engagement has reimagined issues of inequality and social justice as datalogical, socio-technical and algorithmic. |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Equally Digital/Digitally Equal (ED/DE) |
| Organisation | Espacio Nixso |
| Country | Argentina |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the ED/DE Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Joanne Armitage, University of Leeds, Helen Thornham (University of Leeds), Chris Birchall (University of Leeds), Space 2 (UK), Espacio Nixso (Argentina), C-Innova (Colombia) and Media Lab MX (Mexico) |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project evaluated digital inclusion practices and methods to develop new sharable and collaborative practices fit for the current global pandemic. The project will ask how the lived necessity of digital engagement has reimagined issues of inequality and social justice as datalogical, socio-technical and algorithmic. |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Equally Digital/Digitally Equal (ED/DE) |
| Organisation | Media Lab MX |
| Country | Mexico |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the ED/DE Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Joanne Armitage, University of Leeds, Helen Thornham (University of Leeds), Chris Birchall (University of Leeds), Space 2 (UK), Espacio Nixso (Argentina), C-Innova (Colombia) and Media Lab MX (Mexico) |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project evaluated digital inclusion practices and methods to develop new sharable and collaborative practices fit for the current global pandemic. The project will ask how the lived necessity of digital engagement has reimagined issues of inequality and social justice as datalogical, socio-technical and algorithmic. |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Equally Digital/Digitally Equal (ED/DE) |
| Organisation | Space 2 (UK) Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the ED/DE Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Joanne Armitage, University of Leeds, Helen Thornham (University of Leeds), Chris Birchall (University of Leeds), Space 2 (UK), Espacio Nixso (Argentina), C-Innova (Colombia) and Media Lab MX (Mexico) |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project evaluated digital inclusion practices and methods to develop new sharable and collaborative practices fit for the current global pandemic. The project will ask how the lived necessity of digital engagement has reimagined issues of inequality and social justice as datalogical, socio-technical and algorithmic. |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Equally Digital/Digitally Equal (ED/DE) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the ED/DE Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Joanne Armitage, University of Leeds, Helen Thornham (University of Leeds), Chris Birchall (University of Leeds), Space 2 (UK), Espacio Nixso (Argentina), C-Innova (Colombia) and Media Lab MX (Mexico) |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project evaluated digital inclusion practices and methods to develop new sharable and collaborative practices fit for the current global pandemic. The project will ask how the lived necessity of digital engagement has reimagined issues of inequality and social justice as datalogical, socio-technical and algorithmic. |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Just Public Algorithms |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Department | INVOLVE |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Just Public Algorithms Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Helen Pallett (University of East Anglia), Jason Chilvers (University of East Anglia), Dr Catherine Price(University of East Anglia) and Involve (led by Simon Burall). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to develop a practical response to pressing social justice issues presented by the digital economy, by researching the use of algorithms in public services in the UK and providing a roadmap for the responsible and democratic governance of these technologies. It aims to provide the most comprehensive picture yet of citizen responses to the ways in which algorithms are being adopted in and around UK public services, from welfare payments to policing, healthcare and immigration. It will map the different ways in which citizens are engaging with them and identify forms of public engagement that are not taken into account when decisions on policy are being made, such as public protests or community-led initiatives. Specifically, this project will co-design and provide a roadmap towards an observatory for algorithms and society, in order to improve democratic oversight and socially responsible development of algorithms in public services. |
| Impact | UEA have hosted a stakeholder workshop for parties interested in the project and Helen Pallett has delivered a talk about the project at Algorithms for Her. Project team published a briefing note about the research: https://uea3s.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/public-engagement-with-algorithms-in-public-services.pdf |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Just Public Algorithms |
| Organisation | University of East Anglia |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Just Public Algorithms Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Helen Pallett (University of East Anglia), Jason Chilvers (University of East Anglia), Dr Catherine Price(University of East Anglia) and Involve (led by Simon Burall). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to develop a practical response to pressing social justice issues presented by the digital economy, by researching the use of algorithms in public services in the UK and providing a roadmap for the responsible and democratic governance of these technologies. It aims to provide the most comprehensive picture yet of citizen responses to the ways in which algorithms are being adopted in and around UK public services, from welfare payments to policing, healthcare and immigration. It will map the different ways in which citizens are engaging with them and identify forms of public engagement that are not taken into account when decisions on policy are being made, such as public protests or community-led initiatives. Specifically, this project will co-design and provide a roadmap towards an observatory for algorithms and society, in order to improve democratic oversight and socially responsible development of algorithms in public services. |
| Impact | UEA have hosted a stakeholder workshop for parties interested in the project and Helen Pallett has delivered a talk about the project at Algorithms for Her. Project team published a briefing note about the research: https://uea3s.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/public-engagement-with-algorithms-in-public-services.pdf |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | MiniCoDe - Minimise algorithmic bias in Collaborative Decision Making with Design Fiction |
| Organisation | Cambridge Spark |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Minicode Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire), Christina Vasiliou (Northumbria University), Silvio Carta (University of Hertfordshire), Nanlin Jin (Northumbria University), Garry Elvin (Northumbria University), Newcastle West End Foodbank, Cambridge Spark and WeandAI |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project used a design fiction approach to develop a toolkit to inform the design of socio-technical systems for fair and transparent food administration through inter-agency collaboration and resolve the problems identified by exploring digital solutions and interventions. |
| Impact | Design fiction toolkit: https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/themes/information-and-security/minicode Conference paper: https://www.hhai-conference.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/hhai-2022_paper_58.pdf |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | MiniCoDe - Minimise algorithmic bias in Collaborative Decision Making with Design Fiction |
| Organisation | Newcastle West End Foodbank |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Minicode Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire), Christina Vasiliou (Northumbria University), Silvio Carta (University of Hertfordshire), Nanlin Jin (Northumbria University), Garry Elvin (Northumbria University), Newcastle West End Foodbank, Cambridge Spark and WeandAI |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project used a design fiction approach to develop a toolkit to inform the design of socio-technical systems for fair and transparent food administration through inter-agency collaboration and resolve the problems identified by exploring digital solutions and interventions. |
| Impact | Design fiction toolkit: https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/themes/information-and-security/minicode Conference paper: https://www.hhai-conference.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/hhai-2022_paper_58.pdf |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | MiniCoDe - Minimise algorithmic bias in Collaborative Decision Making with Design Fiction |
| Organisation | Northumbria University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Minicode Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire), Christina Vasiliou (Northumbria University), Silvio Carta (University of Hertfordshire), Nanlin Jin (Northumbria University), Garry Elvin (Northumbria University), Newcastle West End Foodbank, Cambridge Spark and WeandAI |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project used a design fiction approach to develop a toolkit to inform the design of socio-technical systems for fair and transparent food administration through inter-agency collaboration and resolve the problems identified by exploring digital solutions and interventions. |
| Impact | Design fiction toolkit: https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/themes/information-and-security/minicode Conference paper: https://www.hhai-conference.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/hhai-2022_paper_58.pdf |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | MiniCoDe - Minimise algorithmic bias in Collaborative Decision Making with Design Fiction |
| Organisation | University of Hertfordshire |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Minicode Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire), Christina Vasiliou (Northumbria University), Silvio Carta (University of Hertfordshire), Nanlin Jin (Northumbria University), Garry Elvin (Northumbria University), Newcastle West End Foodbank, Cambridge Spark and WeandAI |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project used a design fiction approach to develop a toolkit to inform the design of socio-technical systems for fair and transparent food administration through inter-agency collaboration and resolve the problems identified by exploring digital solutions and interventions. |
| Impact | Design fiction toolkit: https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/themes/information-and-security/minicode Conference paper: https://www.hhai-conference.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/hhai-2022_paper_58.pdf |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | MiniCoDe - Minimise algorithmic bias in Collaborative Decision Making with Design Fiction |
| Organisation | We and AI |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Minicode Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Alessio Malizia (University of Hertfordshire), Christina Vasiliou (Northumbria University), Silvio Carta (University of Hertfordshire), Nanlin Jin (Northumbria University), Garry Elvin (Northumbria University), Newcastle West End Foodbank, Cambridge Spark and WeandAI |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project used a design fiction approach to develop a toolkit to inform the design of socio-technical systems for fair and transparent food administration through inter-agency collaboration and resolve the problems identified by exploring digital solutions and interventions. |
| Impact | Design fiction toolkit: https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/themes/information-and-security/minicode Conference paper: https://www.hhai-conference.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/hhai-2022_paper_58.pdf |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Opening Doors: Art and Inequality in the Platform Economy |
| Organisation | NewBridge Project, Newcastle |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Opening Doors Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Harry Weeks (Newcastle University), Lucas Ferguson-Sharp (Northumbria University) and The Newbridge Project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to examine the current and potential impacts of technology, in particular digital platforms, on the inequalities of the cultural sector. Specifically, it will seek to develop practical solutions to issues of unequal access to the cultural sector through open forums for artists, and investigate where and how the platform economy meets the cultural economy. The project will address the entrenched inequalities of the cultural sector and thus advocate and work towards social justice in the sector. Cutting-edge research will be brought into direct conversation with the realities of artists in the North East. |
| Impact | Harry and his team have delivered 6 workshops to the local arts community and are working to create a hub for artists based on the outcomes of these workshops. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Opening Doors: Art and Inequality in the Platform Economy |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Opening Doors Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Harry Weeks (Newcastle University), Lucas Ferguson-Sharp (Northumbria University) and The Newbridge Project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to examine the current and potential impacts of technology, in particular digital platforms, on the inequalities of the cultural sector. Specifically, it will seek to develop practical solutions to issues of unequal access to the cultural sector through open forums for artists, and investigate where and how the platform economy meets the cultural economy. The project will address the entrenched inequalities of the cultural sector and thus advocate and work towards social justice in the sector. Cutting-edge research will be brought into direct conversation with the realities of artists in the North East. |
| Impact | Harry and his team have delivered 6 workshops to the local arts community and are working to create a hub for artists based on the outcomes of these workshops. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Opening Doors: Art and Inequality in the Platform Economy |
| Organisation | Northumbria University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Opening Doors Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Harry Weeks (Newcastle University), Lucas Ferguson-Sharp (Northumbria University) and The Newbridge Project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to examine the current and potential impacts of technology, in particular digital platforms, on the inequalities of the cultural sector. Specifically, it will seek to develop practical solutions to issues of unequal access to the cultural sector through open forums for artists, and investigate where and how the platform economy meets the cultural economy. The project will address the entrenched inequalities of the cultural sector and thus advocate and work towards social justice in the sector. Cutting-edge research will be brought into direct conversation with the realities of artists in the North East. |
| Impact | Harry and his team have delivered 6 workshops to the local arts community and are working to create a hub for artists based on the outcomes of these workshops. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Small Smart Farms |
| Organisation | James Hutton Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Small Smart Farms Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Leanne Townsend (James Hutton Institute), Rowan Ellis (James Hutton Institute), Simon Robinson (Swansea University), Jen Pearson (Swansea University), Scottish Crofting Federation and Smallholding Scotland. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to empower and more fairly distribute the opportunities of the digital economy. It will do this by creating a more inclusive approach for the development of Small Farming Technologies (SFTs), working with small farms to design prototype technologies. The project will therefore empower small-scale farmers who wish to embrace the opportunities offered by SFTs. Specifically it will conduct a participatory workshop with small-scale farmers to gain insights on the barriers and potential of Smart Farming Technologies for small-scale farming, and to co-produce ideas for prototype SFTs for use on their farms. This will include demonstrations of SFTs to encourage farmers to think about potential applications. The project will then undertake rapid prototyping of SFTs based on insights from this first workshop. These small-scale technologies will be trialled on farms to evaluate their effectiveness in these contexts before farmers are asked to give feedback. |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Small Smart Farms |
| Organisation | Scottish Crofting Federation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Small Smart Farms Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Leanne Townsend (James Hutton Institute), Rowan Ellis (James Hutton Institute), Simon Robinson (Swansea University), Jen Pearson (Swansea University), Scottish Crofting Federation and Smallholding Scotland. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to empower and more fairly distribute the opportunities of the digital economy. It will do this by creating a more inclusive approach for the development of Small Farming Technologies (SFTs), working with small farms to design prototype technologies. The project will therefore empower small-scale farmers who wish to embrace the opportunities offered by SFTs. Specifically it will conduct a participatory workshop with small-scale farmers to gain insights on the barriers and potential of Smart Farming Technologies for small-scale farming, and to co-produce ideas for prototype SFTs for use on their farms. This will include demonstrations of SFTs to encourage farmers to think about potential applications. The project will then undertake rapid prototyping of SFTs based on insights from this first workshop. These small-scale technologies will be trialled on farms to evaluate their effectiveness in these contexts before farmers are asked to give feedback. |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Small Smart Farms |
| Organisation | Swansea University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Small Smart Farms Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Leanne Townsend (James Hutton Institute), Rowan Ellis (James Hutton Institute), Simon Robinson (Swansea University), Jen Pearson (Swansea University), Scottish Crofting Federation and Smallholding Scotland. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to empower and more fairly distribute the opportunities of the digital economy. It will do this by creating a more inclusive approach for the development of Small Farming Technologies (SFTs), working with small farms to design prototype technologies. The project will therefore empower small-scale farmers who wish to embrace the opportunities offered by SFTs. Specifically it will conduct a participatory workshop with small-scale farmers to gain insights on the barriers and potential of Smart Farming Technologies for small-scale farming, and to co-produce ideas for prototype SFTs for use on their farms. This will include demonstrations of SFTs to encourage farmers to think about potential applications. The project will then undertake rapid prototyping of SFTs based on insights from this first workshop. These small-scale technologies will be trialled on farms to evaluate their effectiveness in these contexts before farmers are asked to give feedback. |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Switch Gig |
| Organisation | Co-operatives UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Switch Gig Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion of this project. This project is a collaboration between Dr. Ben Kirman (University of York), Dr Oliver Bates (Lancaster University),Co-operatives UK, Miralis Data and Future City Logistics. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to explore the opportunities for the industry's technological innovations to be used to support workers, switching the current gig-economy focus to one of equality, just work, and power for workers. This will lay the groundwork for technologies capable of transformative change in the experience of broader gig-working industries. Switch-Gig will generate data, use cases, speculative design concepts and prototypes to demonstrate meaningful ways in which gig-working can be supported by grass-roots technology projects. These may take the form of projects that help raise public awareness, connect gig-workers to combat isolation, or provide access to legal advice and support. |
| Impact | Thinking Outside the Bag:Worker-led Speculation and the Future of Gig Economy Delivery Platforms. https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/167031 Lessons From One Future of Work: Opportunities to Flip the Gig Economy. DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2021.3113825 Let's start talking the walk: Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401364 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Switch Gig |
| Organisation | Future City Logistics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Switch Gig Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion of this project. This project is a collaboration between Dr. Ben Kirman (University of York), Dr Oliver Bates (Lancaster University),Co-operatives UK, Miralis Data and Future City Logistics. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to explore the opportunities for the industry's technological innovations to be used to support workers, switching the current gig-economy focus to one of equality, just work, and power for workers. This will lay the groundwork for technologies capable of transformative change in the experience of broader gig-working industries. Switch-Gig will generate data, use cases, speculative design concepts and prototypes to demonstrate meaningful ways in which gig-working can be supported by grass-roots technology projects. These may take the form of projects that help raise public awareness, connect gig-workers to combat isolation, or provide access to legal advice and support. |
| Impact | Thinking Outside the Bag:Worker-led Speculation and the Future of Gig Economy Delivery Platforms. https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/167031 Lessons From One Future of Work: Opportunities to Flip the Gig Economy. DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2021.3113825 Let's start talking the walk: Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401364 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Switch Gig |
| Organisation | Lancaster University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Switch Gig Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion of this project. This project is a collaboration between Dr. Ben Kirman (University of York), Dr Oliver Bates (Lancaster University),Co-operatives UK, Miralis Data and Future City Logistics. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to explore the opportunities for the industry's technological innovations to be used to support workers, switching the current gig-economy focus to one of equality, just work, and power for workers. This will lay the groundwork for technologies capable of transformative change in the experience of broader gig-working industries. Switch-Gig will generate data, use cases, speculative design concepts and prototypes to demonstrate meaningful ways in which gig-working can be supported by grass-roots technology projects. These may take the form of projects that help raise public awareness, connect gig-workers to combat isolation, or provide access to legal advice and support. |
| Impact | Thinking Outside the Bag:Worker-led Speculation and the Future of Gig Economy Delivery Platforms. https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/167031 Lessons From One Future of Work: Opportunities to Flip the Gig Economy. DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2021.3113825 Let's start talking the walk: Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401364 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Switch Gig |
| Organisation | Miralis Data |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Switch Gig Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion of this project. This project is a collaboration between Dr. Ben Kirman (University of York), Dr Oliver Bates (Lancaster University),Co-operatives UK, Miralis Data and Future City Logistics. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to explore the opportunities for the industry's technological innovations to be used to support workers, switching the current gig-economy focus to one of equality, just work, and power for workers. This will lay the groundwork for technologies capable of transformative change in the experience of broader gig-working industries. Switch-Gig will generate data, use cases, speculative design concepts and prototypes to demonstrate meaningful ways in which gig-working can be supported by grass-roots technology projects. These may take the form of projects that help raise public awareness, connect gig-workers to combat isolation, or provide access to legal advice and support. |
| Impact | Thinking Outside the Bag:Worker-led Speculation and the Future of Gig Economy Delivery Platforms. https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/167031 Lessons From One Future of Work: Opportunities to Flip the Gig Economy. DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2021.3113825 Let's start talking the walk: Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401364 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Switch Gig |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Switch Gig Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion of this project. This project is a collaboration between Dr. Ben Kirman (University of York), Dr Oliver Bates (Lancaster University),Co-operatives UK, Miralis Data and Future City Logistics. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to explore the opportunities for the industry's technological innovations to be used to support workers, switching the current gig-economy focus to one of equality, just work, and power for workers. This will lay the groundwork for technologies capable of transformative change in the experience of broader gig-working industries. Switch-Gig will generate data, use cases, speculative design concepts and prototypes to demonstrate meaningful ways in which gig-working can be supported by grass-roots technology projects. These may take the form of projects that help raise public awareness, connect gig-workers to combat isolation, or provide access to legal advice and support. |
| Impact | Thinking Outside the Bag:Worker-led Speculation and the Future of Gig Economy Delivery Platforms. https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/167031 Lessons From One Future of Work: Opportunities to Flip the Gig Economy. DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2021.3113825 Let's start talking the walk: Capturing and reflecting on our limits when working with gig economy workers. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401364 |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Tackling Fake News via Fake People: Co-creating a toolkit to help young people recognise fake news |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Tackling Fake News via Fake People: Co-creating a toolkit to help young people recognise fake news Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Yvonne Skipper, (University of Glasgow), Daniel Jolley (Northumbria University) and Joe Reddington (eQuality Time). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project involved the co-creation, testing, and sharing of a school-based intervention for young people (aged 13) that helps them make better choices around their sources of information, and how they share information. Social media influencers led virtual workshops directly with young people, trading on their social currency to maximise the positive impact of the workshop. |
| Impact | The project generated a toolkit to support engagement with Fake News in schools (github link is: https://github.com/equalityTime/projectreal) |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Who cares? Platform Work and Low-income home service work in the digital economy |
| Organisation | Filament AI |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Who Cares? Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Dr Wifak Gueddana (King's College, London), Dr Kendra Briken (University of Strathclyde), Dr James Stewart (University of Edinburgh), Prof. Rob Procter, (University of Warwick), James Ravenscroft (University of Warwick), Filament Consultancy, Duncan McCann (New Economics Foundation) and Miranda Hall (New Economics Foundation). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to identify challenges and opportunities for migrant and BAME women and other vulnerable groups using platforms in the gig economy. Findings will be shared with key stakeholders, paving the way for new technologies that will focus on equity as well as efficiency. Specifically it will shed light on 'invisible' labour in the platform economy, focusing on typically 'feminised' labour like cleaning and caring, that is done usually in the client's home. Use alternative online data |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Who cares? Platform Work and Low-income home service work in the digital economy |
| Organisation | King's College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Who Cares? Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Dr Wifak Gueddana (King's College, London), Dr Kendra Briken (University of Strathclyde), Dr James Stewart (University of Edinburgh), Prof. Rob Procter, (University of Warwick), James Ravenscroft (University of Warwick), Filament Consultancy, Duncan McCann (New Economics Foundation) and Miranda Hall (New Economics Foundation). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to identify challenges and opportunities for migrant and BAME women and other vulnerable groups using platforms in the gig economy. Findings will be shared with key stakeholders, paving the way for new technologies that will focus on equity as well as efficiency. Specifically it will shed light on 'invisible' labour in the platform economy, focusing on typically 'feminised' labour like cleaning and caring, that is done usually in the client's home. Use alternative online data |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Who cares? Platform Work and Low-income home service work in the digital economy |
| Organisation | New Economics Foundation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Who Cares? Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Dr Wifak Gueddana (King's College, London), Dr Kendra Briken (University of Strathclyde), Dr James Stewart (University of Edinburgh), Prof. Rob Procter, (University of Warwick), James Ravenscroft (University of Warwick), Filament Consultancy, Duncan McCann (New Economics Foundation) and Miranda Hall (New Economics Foundation). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to identify challenges and opportunities for migrant and BAME women and other vulnerable groups using platforms in the gig economy. Findings will be shared with key stakeholders, paving the way for new technologies that will focus on equity as well as efficiency. Specifically it will shed light on 'invisible' labour in the platform economy, focusing on typically 'feminised' labour like cleaning and caring, that is done usually in the client's home. Use alternative online data |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Who cares? Platform Work and Low-income home service work in the digital economy |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Who Cares? Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Dr Wifak Gueddana (King's College, London), Dr Kendra Briken (University of Strathclyde), Dr James Stewart (University of Edinburgh), Prof. Rob Procter, (University of Warwick), James Ravenscroft (University of Warwick), Filament Consultancy, Duncan McCann (New Economics Foundation) and Miranda Hall (New Economics Foundation). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to identify challenges and opportunities for migrant and BAME women and other vulnerable groups using platforms in the gig economy. Findings will be shared with key stakeholders, paving the way for new technologies that will focus on equity as well as efficiency. Specifically it will shed light on 'invisible' labour in the platform economy, focusing on typically 'feminised' labour like cleaning and caring, that is done usually in the client's home. Use alternative online data |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Who cares? Platform Work and Low-income home service work in the digital economy |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Who Cares? Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Dr Wifak Gueddana (King's College, London), Dr Kendra Briken (University of Strathclyde), Dr James Stewart (University of Edinburgh), Prof. Rob Procter, (University of Warwick), James Ravenscroft (University of Warwick), Filament Consultancy, Duncan McCann (New Economics Foundation) and Miranda Hall (New Economics Foundation). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to identify challenges and opportunities for migrant and BAME women and other vulnerable groups using platforms in the gig economy. Findings will be shared with key stakeholders, paving the way for new technologies that will focus on equity as well as efficiency. Specifically it will shed light on 'invisible' labour in the platform economy, focusing on typically 'feminised' labour like cleaning and caring, that is done usually in the client's home. Use alternative online data |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Who cares? Platform Work and Low-income home service work in the digital economy |
| Organisation | University of Warwick |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Not-Equal Network funds the Who Cares? Project and provides guidance, assistance with logistics and promotion. This project is a collaboration between Dr Wifak Gueddana (King's College, London), Dr Kendra Briken (University of Strathclyde), Dr James Stewart (University of Edinburgh), Prof. Rob Procter, (University of Warwick), James Ravenscroft (University of Warwick), Filament Consultancy, Duncan McCann (New Economics Foundation) and Miranda Hall (New Economics Foundation). |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project aims to identify challenges and opportunities for migrant and BAME women and other vulnerable groups using platforms in the gig economy. Findings will be shared with key stakeholders, paving the way for new technologies that will focus on equity as well as efficiency. Specifically it will shed light on 'invisible' labour in the platform economy, focusing on typically 'feminised' labour like cleaning and caring, that is done usually in the client's home. Use alternative online data |
| Impact | None as yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Title | Catalyst website |
| Description | Catalyst is a part of Not-Equal which is a UKRI funded network, NetworkPlus,that aims to foster new collaborations in order to create the conditions for digital technology to support social justice, and develop a path for inclusive digital innovation and a fairer future for all in and through the digital economy. Catalyst is a space to browse, search and view Expressions Of Interests (EOIs) to encourage engagment and collaberations between network members. The system was designed and developed using Unplatformed Design to repurpose existing technologies rather than making new platforms. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The Catalyst was used to match up academic and non-academic partners. |
| URL | https://catalyst.not-equal.tech/ |
| Title | Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge |
| Description | The website lets crowdsourcing requesters publicly commit to paying at least a certain wage level. How it works in brief A requester can set different wage levels for different projects, and let collaborators administer their pledges. For now, the website only supports pledges relating to tasks posted to Amazon Mechanical Turk. It may support other crowdsourcing platforms in the future. This website also lets workers inquire about issues they have had completing tasks posted by requesters who have signed the pledge. The website operators will contact requesters about these inquiries, support them in meeting their target wages if they encounter difficulties, and endeavor to mediate disputes that may arise. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | N/a |
| URL | https://wagepledge.org/ |
| Title | Digital open-source data management tool |
| Description | Sociality cooperative and Yannis Efthimiou designed and developed a system for the data management of third sector organisations supporting women that are victims of gendered domestic violence |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The tool is in a very preliminary stage of its development (which is to be expected in such short timescales/projects) but it is the first step towards designing a bespoke tool for data management in such a context. The system also served as a research method - it was presented and discussed in a workshop with women from the Angelou Centre and it prompted conversations about information/data exchange, sharing and ownership |
| URL | https://gitlab.com/sociality/desic-app |
| Title | Project Real - website - Fake News |
| Description | This site contains lesson plans and resources for six lessons, each focussed on the government SHARE guidelines and covering a different element of online misinformation. These lessons have been designed to be delivered in schools and youth group settings but may also be of interest to families. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | N/a |
| URL | http://www.projectreal.co.uk/ |
| Description | A two day Conference: Disrupting Technology - Who Cares |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at the two day Conference: Disrupting Technology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://business.leeds.ac.uk/divisions-work-employment-relations/events/event/448/a-two-day-conferen... |
| Description | ACM Interactions article on 'Deep Digitality' by Alan Dix |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Alan Dix, Not Equal Co-I, wrote an article for ACM Interactions on 'Deep Digitality' and how we reimagine a radical digital future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/january-february-2019/deep-digitality#comments |
| Description | ALGORITHMIC BIAS: AI Traps and possible escapes - Ruth Catlow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ruth presented work from the Not-Equal funded 'Algorithmic Food Justice' Project at Activation, hosted by the Disruption Network Lab in Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.disruptionlab.org/activation#program |
| Description | Academia and the Ethics of Crowdsourced Research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Knowledge dissemination among users of crowdsourcing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://academeblog.org/2021/08/27/academia-and-the-ethics-of-crowdsourced-research/ |
| Description | Advancing Data Justice in the Future Generations (Wales) Act workshop report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Workshop report on identifying avenues for participation and governance in relation to data-driven innovation in the public sector |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://datajusticelab.org/advancing-data-justice-in-the-future-generations-act/ |
| Description | Alan Dix Keynote on 'Deep Digitality' at the Irish HCI Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Alan Dix, Not Equal Co-I, presented a keynote on 'Deep Digitality' at the Irish HCI Conference in November 2018. This keynote included topics investigated by the Node Equal challenge area 'algorithmic social justice'. This included discussions on gender and ethnic bias in black-box machine-learning systems, as well as more recent developments such as deep learning and concerns such as those that gave rise to the EPSRC human-like computing programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://irishhci.wordpress.com/programme/ |
| Description | Algorithmic Food Justice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at 4S conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Algorithmic Food Justice - Co-designing multispecies urban commons on the blockchain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented a talk about the Algorithmic Food Justice project at the workshop on The City as a License: Design, Rights and Civics in a Blockchain Society, at the Media Architecture Biennial. Has led to invitation to contribute to a special issue of journal Big Data and Society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Algorithmic Food Justice - Mapping the Future Farm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brought diverse people together to map the stakeholders of the city farm now and in the future |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://algorithmicfoodjustice.net/first-workshop-mapping-the-future-farm |
| Description | Algorithmic Food Justice -Â Ecological Reparation: Blockchain Food Imaginaries |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | part of a series of videos around ecological reparation, in conversation with Maria Puig de la Bellacasa & Dimitris Papadopoulos |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPaU1SWjq8 |
| Description | Algorithmic Food Justice -Â Now London is a City Farm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Brought diverse people together to roleplay 2 assembly meetings from human and non-human perspectives, to imagine all of London as a city farm and reconfigure values in the food system. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://algorithmicfoodjustice.net/second-workshop-now-london-is-a-city-farm |
| Description | Algorithmic Food Justice Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This website enables us to publicise the 'Algorithimic Food Justice' project and details all project activities in an easy to locate place. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://algorithmicfoodjustice.net |
| Description | Algorithms for Her Conference - Helen Pallett Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation entitled 'Digitising pregnancy: the use of algorithms in NHS maternity care' at Algorithms for her 2020. Algorithms for her is a conference prioritising the the study of intersectional forms of injustice that algorithms (and the systems in which they are embedded) often propagate and sustain. Given the significance of such processes in our daily lives, and how they disproportionately affect those marginalised across intersections of gender, sexuality, class and race, this event created a dedicated space for the discussion of algorithmic oppression and inequality. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://algorithmsforher.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | App-Based Corporations Can't Just Ignore Labor Law |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Op/Ed which writes about stakeholders of this project, in particular the platform co-operative, Wings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://jacobinmag.com/2021/08/spain-delivery-platforms-glovo-gig-economy-employees |
| Description | Award Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This Event was an opportunity for awardees of funding during the first Not-Equal commissioning process to present their projects, learn about the other awardees, meet each other and network. It was also an opportunity for Not-Equal to state / confirm our expectations around project reporting and other issues and for the N-E team to meet the project teams in person. After a welcome by Pam Briggs, Prof John Goddard gave a presentation on the role of the Civic University. This was followed by 5 minute presentations by someone from each of the funded projects. Finally, there was time for informal networking. This was a good opportunity to learn and network, it provided the funded project teams with an increased sense of being part of a network and what that means. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Award Showcase 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The event showcased the latest Not-Equal funded research projects, with presentations overviewing each project. The interactive element of the event allowed participants to discuss their ideas around equitable digital futues, responses to the Covid19 pandemic and accountability of digital economy research. Those interested in digital justice and how it can support social justice could learn more about the funded projects and share ideas around relevant issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Beyond the Blokechain - Ruth Catlow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ruth Catlow presented work from the NOt-Equal funded Algorithmic Food Justice Project at Beyond the "Blokechain" at MoneyLab #7 Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam. She talked about Algorithmic Food Justice as part of a talk about DAOs for translocal cooperation, feminist economics and DisCOs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://vimeo.com/376668856 |
| Description | Business Insider article - Switch Gig |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Oliver Bates on gig economy courier experiences and last-mile logistics in Business Insider. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/i-tried-tiktoks-new-e-commerce-platform-fanno-2022-2 |
| Description | CSCW-Power Struggles in the Digital Economy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The one-day workshop was arranged in collaboration with our Co-I (Prof Ann Light) and engaged interested scholars in the theme of power struggles in the digital economy, from defining the struggles, to discussing the issues to suggesting ways to overcome or mitigate these struggles. There was a general social justice orientation with a perception that workers, workforces and unions/organising are all being undermined by the advent of the platform economy and a will to do something about it. Principally, it was a theme setting workshop and we now have two recorded sessions describing the issues of concern to a group of ECRs from different parts of the Global North, as well as a discussion about what can be done which was fed back into the network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://cscw2018digitaleconomy.wordpress.com/ |
| Description | Capacity of digital technologies to transform volunteering talk at 9th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Vienna |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The talk given by Professor Pam Briggs explored the capacity of digital technologies to transform volunteering. Professor Briggs also disseminated information about the Not-Equal Network+. Interest in the Not-Equal Network was generated and the possibility to reach out to more European researchers was explored |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Catalyst Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Catalyst seeks to promote and facilitate collaborations between Not-Equal Network+ members, who wish to develop and submit a research project in response to Not-Equal's Call for Collaborative Proposals. Project partners can fill out a simple form with initial project idea and interests. This form is then used to populate the unique Catalyst entry. Others are then able to browse the Catalyst site and use the keyword search to identify and connect with partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://catalyst.not-equal.tech/ |
| Description | Challenging the work society: an interdisciplinary summit - Who Cares |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The team talked at the Challenging the work society: an interdisciplinary summit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://autonomy.work/portfolio/conference2019/ |
| Description | CinCity Networking Event - Artemis Skarlatidou |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Mayor of Hackney introduced the CinCity team and their project to the Police Borough Commander of Hackney and Councillor Carolina Selma. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CinCity Networking Event - Artemis Skarlatidou |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A networking event at St Anne's Hoxton to discuss the CinCity project with people working within social justice, academia, education or community affairs on 11th February 2020. This activity gave us a better understanding of wider Youth Safety Programme and community issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CinCity Project Planning Meetings - Artemis Skarlatidou |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Two Project Planning meetings for the CinCity Project. A total of 20 young people attended at New City College in Hackney on 14th January and 3rd February 2020. The aim of these meetings was to recruit participants for the interviews and the use of the Fear of Crime app and discuss future steps and other avenues for them to engage with the project. Additionally we raised awareness of knife crime issues and relevant interventions and the importance of participating in the debate. They key outcomes included promoting interest in the project and participation in subsequent sessions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CinCity Project Recruitment - Artemis Skarlatidou |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | CinCity ran three Project Recruitment Sessions organised and led by New City College student union on 20th January, 27th January and 3rd February 2020. These information sessions signed up 30 new participants to join the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Co-designing a Sustainable Food Justice System (Sara Heitlinger) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Sara Heitlinger gave a talk to DEFRA (Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Community Panel 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The purpose of the panel was to award scores and write mini-reviews of the 72 funding applications received via the first Not-Equal call for proposals. On the first day, the group was led through a process of group activities to establish a set of judging criteria based on their own experiences and perceptions of issues related to social justice in the digital economy. On the second day, participants were divided into three groups and each group was given the 'social impact statement' of a segment of the proposals and tasked with awarding scores and writing mini-reviews. By the end of the first day, through a process of group activities, the panel came up with three criteria: Research into the social justice and innovation should: (1) consider and respond to the needs of a community; (2) help to reduce barriers to participation and involvement in technology + services; and, (3) support community cohesion. During the second day the panel provided a score for each criterion (out of 10) and a review statement for a total of 72 proposals, based on reading the project title, tagline, and social impact statement. The Community Panel's scores were taken into account in the proposal judging process. The most significant impact was a real contribution of community groups and service users to the selection of winning proposals. There were also some valuable lessons learned that will help shape and improve the role, planning and implementation of the panel in the second round. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Covid 19 Response |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | In response to the Covid pandemic, Not-Equal carried out conversations with 21 representatives from Not-Equal non-academic network member organisations to determine what issues they are facing with using digital technology to stay connected with members and deliver their services. Not-Equal proposed responses to support the work of the engaged organisations including review of digital skills and training programs, development of digital wellbeing guidance and the suggestion of workshops to support the sudden digitalisation of services. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://not-equal.tech/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Not-Equal_COVID-19_CallToAction_Report.pdf |
| Description | Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge Prototype, Github |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Website design information for the wage pledge, code posted publicly on Github |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://github.com/fiveplusone/crowdsourcing-wage-pledge-prototype |
| Description | Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Website to facilitate and publicize the Crowdsourcing Wage Pledge project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://wagepledge.org |
| Description | CyberGuardian workshop 1 - James Nicholson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A three hour workshop to educate a group of older adults (Cyberguardians) in cyber security and arm them with the tools to educate their communities about this subject. The first workshop covered password management. The training material was user-friendly in terms of not being technical and relating it to concepts which they could grasp such as describing the process of encryption as "juicing an orange". This was well-received (as measured by post-session questionnaires after every event). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Cybercrimeology Podcast - James Nicholson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this podcast episode Dr. James Nicholson, talks about digital seniors and how they learn about cybersecurity. This is an important topic as seniors are a growing online population but they are often overlooked by cybersecurity educators. Being older doesn't mean that you are not able to use computers or practice good cybersecurity, but it is something that most of us have to learn. This work was funded through the Not-Equal Network+ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.cybercrimeology.com/episodes/turn-up-your-radio-cybersecurity-learning-for-older-adults |
| Description | Cyberguardian Workshop 2 - James Nicholson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A three hour workshop to educate a group of older adults (Cyberguardians) in cyber security and arm them with the tools to educate their communities about this subject. The second workshop covered scam detection. One of the main concerns voiced appears to be around the use of antivirus software (whether it is necessary, whether to pay for it) and scam phone calls (how to identify them, stop them, report them). One striking observation raised from the training was just how unaware this group were of the value of personal data not just in terms of being used in fraudulent activity but also in the targeting of individuals by commercial companies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Cyberguardian Workshop 3 - James Nicholson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A three hour workshop to educate a group of older adults (Cyberguardians) in cyber security and arm them with the tools to educate their communities about this subject. The third workshop covered protective software. Feedback provided through questionnaires has been very positive about the sessions regarding them as 'informative', 'engaging' and having 'improved confidence'. The following comments were received: - Format with time for asking questions as we went along was good; - Demonstrations were talked about as being effective for seeing what the problem actually is and improving understanding; - By explaining how cybersecurity is connected, the advice given makes sense. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Cyberguardian Workshop 4 - James Nicholson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This workshop provided an opportunity for the Cyberguardians to update us on their progress and share best practice tips based on their experiences so far. The CyberGuardians have requested digital versions of the presentations and posters/fliers for them to advertise their own cybersecurity events. As they develop these, they may request more specific teaching materials tailored to the needs of their CyberCitizens, who can be defined as anyone who requires help with online security. Two of the CyberGuardians are going to run joint sessions and have a venue booked for mid-January 2020. Others have started to put into practice what they have learnt themselves and on relatives and friends in preparation for working with CyberCitizens. Many of them have acknowledged that they have improved their own cybersecurity behaviours by changing their passwords to make them stronger and are considering adopting password managers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cyberguardians Awareness Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Cyberguardians trained through the Not-Equal Program delivered their first awareness event to 25 older adults in the local community of Prudhoe.This event addressed the types of issues that older citizens face around cybersecurity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Cyberguardians BBC News - James Nicholson |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An interview on BBC Look North (North East & Cumbria) about the Cyberguardians project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | DESIC - Community report |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A community-facing report will be put together (we didn't have the time to do this yet) that will be distributed to the organizations that we worked with (and other similar organizations and communities) enlisting actionable steps for information and data management in such contexts. Such report aims to inform future next steps through reporting on best practices, while also act as a sense-making tool forfuture funding applications. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | DESIC - Digital open-source data management tool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Sociality cooperative and Yannis Efthimiou designed and developed a system for the data management of third sector organisations supporting women that are victims of gendered domestic violence. The tool is in a very preliminary stage of its development (which is to be expected in such short timescales/ projects) but it is the first step towards designing a bespoke tool for data management in such a context. The system also served as a research method - it was presented and discussed in a workshop with women from the Angelou Centre and it prompted conversations about information/data exchange, sharing and ownership |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://gitlab.com/sociality/desic-not-equal-app |
| Description | DESIC - Open-source DESIC project website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Project website outlining process and outcomes of designing security infrastructures for communities with sensitive data project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.desic.io/ |
| Description | DESIC - Women's Voices Group workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Reporting to social services and the police can be problematic for women experiencing domestic violenceand can lead to mistrust and women not disclosing key information due to fear of harm to themselves orchildren. Data and information collected by agencies shared with the courts can be used by the perpetrator todiscredit women's accounts of abuse. Women survivors are held much more accountable for evidencing and reporting on their good parentingskills than abusers are even when women are no longer living with perpetrators. Recognition of these wider issues of data sharing were considered important for women to discussamongst themselves since this highlighted key learning for staff and women to share amongst themselves. Desire for women survivors and staff to share their findings with social services and police to helphighlight these specific challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wKu1YrVJs95jn8rEt_yK9PF7xQaRIzPNaXRQ5Op_i2s/edit?usp=sharing |
| Description | Delivering Rights: Alternatives in the Online Food Economy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | New proposals for reforming the online food delivery sector |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://autonomy.work/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/NOTEQUAL_PT2_MAY25.pdf |
| Description | Digitising pregnancy: the use of algorithms in NHS maternity care |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Communicated emerging project findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Ethical Tech: Bias, Algorithms and Social Justice - Ian Johnson, Public Talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Ian Johnson, Not-Equal Policy and Community Researcher gave a public talk hosted by the Centre for Digital Culture at King's College London. Within this talk he detailed the current Not-Equal call for collaborative proposals and made new contacts during reception that followed talks. The main outcomes were promoting Not-Equal and making connections with potential collaborators and industry partners, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Fake News - How schools can teach pupils to spot fake news - TES magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | PI Yvonne Skipper wrote an article in the Times Education Supplement on the 'Tackling Fake News via Fake People' project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/how-schools-can-teach-pupils-spot-fake-news |
| Description | Fake News - Presentation at the British Psychological Society (Developmental section, Social Section and Education Section annual conference) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference presentation as a part of Fake News project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Fake News - Project Real Spotting Fake News (Parents and Children) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Online workshop on fake news for parents and children |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Fake News - Project Real Spotting Fake News (Parents and Children) during Cop 26 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Online workshop on fake news for parents and children as part of Cop26 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Fake News - Project Real Spotting Fake News (Scottish Researchers Festival) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Online video sharing event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/YvonneSkipper/status/1438831348165251076 |
| Description | Fake News - Project Real Spotting Fake News during Cop 26 (School) ESRC Festival of Social Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with School children exploring Fake News. Positive feedback from teachers on Project Real and an intention to use the materials in future |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/YvonneSkipper/status/1438831348165251076 |
| Description | Funding Workshop - Harry Weeks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was delivered through the Not-Equal funded 'Opening Doors' project, led by Harry Weeks. This project aims to examine the current and potential impacts of technology, in particular digital platforms, on the inequalities of the cultural sector. The series of workshops were collectively titled 'Assembly: A Forum for Artists in Precarious Labour' and were conceived of as spaces in which artists could freely and frankly discuss their working lives. The safety of the space, engendering a spirit of free and open conversation, was key to the project as previous research undertaken by the PI had found that the taboo surrounding the discussion of working conditions was a key inhibitor of solidarity and organisation amongst precarious cultural workers. The events were designed to serve as opportunities for people to share lived experiences, as well as tactics and strategies for alleviating the impacts of precarity. Each topic served as both a provocation for thought and reflection on people's conditions and experiences, and as a forum for action and the sharing of resources. Led by Ellie Harrison, this workshop explored alternative funding strategies and resources for artists. There was considerable inter-generational conversation, guidance and sharing of resources between participants, and a broad agreement that this sharing of resources, knowledges and strategies would be beneficial to the sector as a whole if somehow scaled up. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Grant Writer's Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Rachel Sparks drew on her grant writing experience from working with Stanford University to develop materials to support applicants for Not-Equal's second round of commissioning. Rachel offered a part instructional and part peer assessment activity to participants. Rachel sparks offered practical guidance for grant writing to Not-Equal network members to support applicants in the 2nd round of commissioning process |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Guardian article - Switch Gig |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Oliver Bates on gig economy courier experiences and last-mile logistics in Guardian. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/01/the-hidden-life-of-a-courier-13-hour-days-rude-custo... |
| Description | How to Launch a Food Delivery Co-operative |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | User-friendly guide to starting a cooperative in the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://autonomy.work/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/NOTEQUAL_PT1_MAY25.pdf |
| Description | Improving democratic oversight of algorithms - Helen Pallett |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Participants reviewed initial findings from the review and mapping work from the Just Public Algorithms project and then collectively designed structures for the democratic oversight of algorithms in public services. The purpose of this workshop was to improve the collection and interpretation of cases of public engagement from the mapping phase of the research, and to contribute towards a proposal for better public engagement and governance of algorithms in public services. The activity resulted in notes made by the research team and templates filled in by participants which will be analysed by the research team. This analysis will contribute towards the academic paper and briefing note which will be produced at the end of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | In Kind Workshop - Harry Weeks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was delivered through the Not-Equal funded 'Opening Doors' project, led by Harry Weeks. This project aims to examine the current and potential impacts of technology, in particular digital platforms, on the inequalities of the cultural sector. The series of workshops were collectively titled 'Assembly: A Forum for Artists in Precarious Labour' and were conceived of as spaces in which artists could freely and frankly discuss their working lives. The safety of the space, engendering a spirit of free and open conversation, was key to the project as previous research undertaken by the PI had found that the taboo surrounding the discussion of working conditions was a key inhibitor of solidarity and organisation amongst precarious cultural workers. The events were designed to serve as opportunities for people to share lived experiences, as well as tactics and strategies for alleviating the impacts of precarity. Each topic served as both a provocation for thought and reflection on people's conditions and experiences, and as a forum for action and the sharing of resources. The In Kind workshop was led by Ailie Rutherford and Janie Nicoll. This workshop explored the prevalence of In Kind labour in endemic in the arts and how to fight it. The workshop examined their research and explore strategies in fighting these trends. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Inaugural Lecture (Prof Lizzie Coles-Kemp) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | It was a lecture and it was intended to inform a diverse audience about the relevance of designing inclusive models of digital security. It presented some of the implications of exclusive design and highlighted some of the techniques necessary for an inclusive approach. The main objective of the lecture was to set out a vision for digital security that runs counter to the orthodoxy of digital security as an approach. The most significant outcome was to layout an inclusive digital security position that can be used as the basis for further follow-up events and collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-teaching/departments-and-schools/information-security/n... |
| Description | Input Workshop - Harry Weeks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was delivered through the Not-Equal funded 'Opening Doors' project, led by Harry Weeks. This project aims to examine the current and potential impacts of technology, in particular digital platforms, on the inequalities of the cultural sector. The series of workshops were collectively titled 'Assembly: A Forum for Artists in Precarious Labour' and were conceived of as spaces in which artists could freely and frankly discuss their working lives. The safety of the space, engendering a spirit of free and open conversation, was key to the project as previous research undertaken by the PI had found that the taboo surrounding the discussion of working conditions was a key inhibitor of solidarity and organisation amongst precarious cultural workers. The events were designed to serve as opportunities for people to share lived experiences, as well as tactics and strategies for alleviating the impacts of precarity. The first workshop was hosted by artist Nicola Singh's and promoted self-reflection on the project, and centred on various mapping exercises through which attendees could understand the institutional network that Assembly was imbricated within. The research team explained the funding processes for the project and their own relationships to precarious work as a means of engendering an honest and open atmosphere. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Interviews with Food Delivery Drivers - Yingqin Zheng |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Between digital platforms and the Deep Sea is a Not-Equal project that seeks to understand the impact that food delivery apps have as a business and as a technology on the riders that depend on the apps for daily work and income. Yingqin Zheng and Shyam Krishna carried out 27 interviews with delivery drivers within the south Indian city of Chennai. This has lead to a report that will be shared with the Indian Fishermen's Association, and Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers, in order to action issues, such as a union for delivery drivers, training in data protection and fair wages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Introduction to CinCity - Artemis Skarlatidou |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Three Project Introduction sessions to the CinCity Project - Civic InnovatioN in CommunITY: safety, policing and trust with young people - Safety digitally co-designed by young people to tackle knife crime in London. These activities were workshops with roundtable discussion with a total of 100 young people and student representatives at New City College in Hackney and City and Islington College on 19th November 2019 and 25th February 2020, respectively. The purpose was to introduce the project to the young people at the two colleges and demonstrate the problem it tries to address. The main outcome was raising awareness of knife crime issues and relevant interventions and the importance of participating in the debate. These sessions promoted interest in the project and participation in subsequent sessions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Just Public Algorithms |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Communicated findings to a new audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Just Public Algorithms - Public engagement with algorithms in public services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Reporting on mapping of public engagement with algorithms |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://uea3s.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/public-engagement-with-algorithms-in-public-services.pdf |
| Description | Just Public Algorithms: How can we democratically govern algorithms for more socially-responsible public services? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Fed into analysis and findings of project. Communicated project findings to key stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Just public algorithms in UK healthcare |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Communicated findings to a new audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Just public algorithms: How can we democratically govern algorithms for more socially-responsible public services? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Communicated findings to a new audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | London Launch Symposia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Not Equal held two events in January 2019, both in Newcastle and in London, to mark the launch of the Not Equal project and the first call for collaborative research proposals as part of the Open Commissioning Programme. This event was an opportunity for Network+ partners to come together and share ideas on possible practical responses to issues flagged up by partners within each challenge area; as well as hear about the funding criteria, process and support available. The events featured provocative talks from invited speakers and experts from academia, civic and civil society, who shared their views on the social justice dimensions of emerging technology design and application and the challenges facing us today. The events followed the same agenda but with different speakers and panel members. Not Equal's London launch event on the 29th January. Many of the attendees were from academia but there were also representatives from third sector and industry. Some of the organisations that were represented included National Ugly Mug's, New Economic Foundation, Proboscis and the Digital Catapult. The event was opened with a keynote address on the issues of social justice in the digital economy from Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne and Central Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy, Science and Innovation. Following on from the keynote we then had a panel discussion with representatives from academia including Kutoma Wakunuma (Senior Lecturer and Researcher at De Montford University), Rachel Franklin (Professor of Geographical Analysis at Newcastle University), Jamie Woodcock (Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute) and the third sector Froi Legaspi (Community Organiser for Citizens UK), who posed provocative questions for our attendees. The afternoon agenda for both events included lightening talks from the Co-Investigators of Not Equal Professor Alan Dix, (Director of the Computational Foundry at Swansea University), Lizzie Coles-Kemp (Professor in Information Security at Royal Holloway University), Ann Light (Professor of Design and Creative Technology at the University of Sussex). They discussed the challenge areas of Algorithmic Social Justice, Digital Security for All and Fairer Futures for Business and Workforces and how key topics from the challenge areas had been incorporated into the call for proposals. This was followed by a briefing session on Not Equal's commissioning process. Both events had workshop activities in which attendees were able to set a challenge to the network and encouraged to work in tables to group their challenges according to commonalities and differences. This led on to working group activities later in the day in which attendees could generate ideas for expressions of interest and encouraged cross disciplinary collaboration. Following on from our launch events, a number of attendees plan to submit collaborative proposals for Not Equal's first funding call. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Love doesn't pay the bills - Who Cares |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 'Love doesn't pay the bills' article in Open Democracy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/love-doesnt-pay-the-bills/ |
| Description | Meadow Well Connected - Positive Pathways Group Engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was an engagement with a wellbeing group. The activity aimed to explore/discover the issues that are important for Meadow Well Connected's (MWC) client group. It is hoped that themes emerging from this engagement will be explored in more detail with MWC's staff members in a second engagement and that emerging themes could guide the Network+ research agenda and future activities as well as potentially helping shape an 'intent to collaborate' from MWC. In groups, participants were given real or fictional scenarios involving technology and asked to respond to a series of questions about the fairness or otherwise of this technology, its positive and negative impact, whom it affected, and their own experience of it. They were then asked to think of ways the fairness of the use of the technology could be enhanced or its unfairness mitigated. Key outcomes include: insights into target group's experience of and attitudes to technology, including a reluctance to engage with it or the topic for a significant minority; some emerging themes were identified and, new methods were tested and will be refined in future engagements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | MiniCoDe Kick-off Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We run a kick-off meeting with all the project participants, including representatives from Data Reply and WeandAI. During the meeting, we introduced the project to the end-users and presented its objectives. We agreed to involve partners in the next stage of the toolkit design, as Data Reply decided to run a workshop within their workforce to test the toolkit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | MiniCoDe Workshop Pilot Study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | We run a Pilot Workshop Study within the MiniCoDe Academic Team together with an academic from another institution and a Professional UX Designer. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Minicode - Bright Night |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We showcased a poster outlining the MiniCoDe Toolkit during the Researchers' Night in Pisa, a public event where a broad audience interacts with academics, receiving exciting feedbacks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bright-night.it |
| Description | Minicode - Minimise Algorithmic Bias In Collaborative Decision Making With Design Fiction Seminars |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar on Minicode for Eng4ged: Engineering for green, education and dual-use defense. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://b4ds.unipi.it/project/minicode-minimise-algorithmic-bias-in-collaborative-decision-making-wit... |
| Description | Minicode - Science And Technology For The Explanation Of AI Decision Making |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | PI Alessio Malizia gave a special guest talk at XAI 2022 Project meeting on Minicode. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://xai-project.eu/index.html |
| Description | Newbridge Project drop-in activity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This activity invited people to reflect on what they consider just or unjust in the uses of smart devices and technologies in their working lives, through a set of provocations (scenarios cards/smart devices). People reflected on, discussed and debated the issues and eight 'Just-Unjust' cards were completed. This activity raised awareness of the work of Not-Equal and the issues it addresses, and also initiated a relationship with Newbridge Project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Newcastle Launch Symposia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Not Equal held two events in January 2019, both in Newcastle and in London, to mark the launch of the Not Equal project and the first call for collaborative research proposals as part of the Open Commissioning Programme. This event was an opportunity for Network+ partners to come together and share ideas on possible practical responses to issues flagged up by partners within each challenge area; as well as hear about the funding criteria, process and support available. The events featured provocative talks from invited speakers and experts from academia, civic and civil society, who shared their views on the social justice dimensions of emerging technology design and application and the challenges facing us today. The events followed the same agenda but with different speakers and panel members. Not Equal's Newcastle launch event was on the 31st January and there was a clear mix of sectors represented with attendees from academia, the third sector, the public sector and from industry. Some of the organisations in attendance included VODA, Changing Lives, Sunderland City Council and Northumbria Police. The event was opened with a key note address on 'Advancing social justice in an age of datafication' from Lina Dencik, Founder of the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University. The Newcastle panel discussion had a representative from academia in Bettina Nissen (Interaction Design Lecturer at the Edinburgh University) and the third sector Matt Stokes (Senior Researcher at NESTA) and Karen Wood (Parker Trust). The afternoon agenda for both events included lightening talks from the Co-Investigators of Not Equal Professor Alan Dix, (Director of the Computational Foundry at Swansea University), Lizzie Coles-Kemp (Professor in Information Security at Royal Holloway University), Ann Light (Professor of Design and Creative Technology at the University of Sussex). They discussed the challenge areas of Algorithmic Social Justice, Digital Security for All and Fairer Futures for Business and Workforces and how key topics from the challenge areas had been incorporated into the call for proposals. This was followed by a briefing session on Not Equal's commissioning process. Both events had workshop activities in which attendees were able to set a challenge to the network and encouraged to work in tables to group their challenges according to commonalities and differences. This led on to working group activities later in the day in which attendees could generate ideas for expressions of interest and encouraged cross disciplinary collaboration. Following on from our launch events, a number of attendees plan to submit collaborative proposals for Not Equal's first funding call. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Newcastle Trans-disciplinary Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop provided an opportunity to hear about Not Equal and help shape its agenda and activities. We invited researchers from a variety of disciplines (social sciences, engineering, design, arts and humanities, computer science, law and business) to come together and share perspectives on on issues of social justice in the design and application of new and emerging technologies. The workshop included initial talks from the Dean of Social Justice at Newcastle University and the Not Equal team, followed by group activities designed to facilitate participants to share disciplinary perspectives to generate ideas for potential collaborative cross-disciplinary responses. The main outcomes involved 15 attendees signing up to the network and the potential for collaborative cross-disciplinary projects for Not Equal's call for proposals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://not-equal.tech/the-data-is-out-there-but-how-is-it-being-used/ |
| Description | Not Equal 'Show and Tell' Event at Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop was intended to provide an opportunity for academics to talk to the Not Equal team about network activities and funding opportunities. The event also allowed attendees to provide feedback on funding focus and the types of collaborative projects that might be of interest. The workshop activities provided several new provocations/issues from the Not Equal challenge areas that can be incorporated into the Not Equal agenda. The event also allowed 17 attendees to sign up as network partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Not Equal Networking Hour |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An informal networking hour, whereby interested parties were invited to the Urban Sciences Building at Newcastle University to hear about the Not-Equal Second Call for Collaborative Proposals and meet other network partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/not-equal-networking-hour-1st-session-registration-89760625447 |
| Description | Not-Equal Sandpit Events |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In conjunction with the Not-Equal Call for Collaborative Proposals 2020, the Network host two Sandpit Events. The first was on 27th February 2020 at the Catalyst Building, Newcastle University and the second on 6th March 2020 at Digital Catapult in London. These one day events brought together partners from across the Not-Equal network, with the aim to facilitate collaborations, drive innovation and lay the foundations for potential research projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://not-equal.tech/not-equal-sandpit-events-join-us/ |
| Description | Not-Equal Summer School 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This was a 4-day summer school. The intention was to introduce some of the Not-Equal thinking and areas of study to PhD students and post docs. The school was run with talks in the morning and collaborative small group work in the afternoon. The aim of the collaborative sessions was to use a range of story-telling techniques to articulate a scenario in which automated decision making, social justice, fairness and society intersect. The outcomes took the form of knowledge dissemination and network building amongst ECRs and PhD students. The most significant outcome was to further develop the network of academic collaboration related to Not-Equal. A follow-up Summer School will take place in 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Not-Equal Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Not-Equal website was set up at the beginning of the project. It is used to advertise the Network, disseminate information and allow people to sign up to the Not-Equal mailing list. There are currently over 400 people signed up to this list. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://not-equal.tech/ |
| Description | Now London is a City Farm - Sara Heitlinger |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was the second workshop in the series for the project 'Co-designing a Sustainable Food Justice System with Blockchain Futures' aiming to prototype more-than-human values for the food commons with urban agricultural communities. In this workshop participants played a game with various characters to imagine a more sustainable, just and inclusive future food system in the city. The game - played in a Live Action Role Play (LARP) format - drew on the previously-generated materials as well as current facts about food and environmental injustices. Discussions from this workshop will feed into the final workshop and inform our blockchain work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://algorithmicfoodjustice.net/second-workshop-now-london-is-a-city-farm |
| Description | Output Workshop - Harry Weeks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was delivered through the Not-Equal funded 'Opening Doors' project, led by Harry Weeks. This project aims to examine the current and potential impacts of technology, in particular digital platforms, on the inequalities of the cultural sector. The series of workshops were collectively titled 'Assembly: A Forum for Artists in Precarious Labour' and were conceived of as spaces in which artists could freely and frankly discuss their working lives. The safety of the space, engendering a spirit of free and open conversation, was key to the project as previous research undertaken by the PI had found that the taboo surrounding the discussion of working conditions was a key inhibitor of solidarity and organisation amongst precarious cultural workers. The events were designed to serve as opportunities for people to share lived experiences, as well as tactics and strategies for alleviating the impacts of precarity. Each topic served as both a provocation for thought and reflection on people's conditions and experiences, and as a forum for action and the sharing of resources. The final workshop led by Sophie Hope, afforded the opportunity to consider outputs and future directions for the project. It was important that this question was tackled dialogically with workshops participants so as to ensure continued investment and shared ownership of the project and its direction. A wall of Newbridge's Gateshead space served as a perpetually involving pinboard of documentation, resources and prompts, on which maps/demands produced during workshops, and key texts, sample invoices for freelancers, etc were pinned. The team are in the process of establishing a resource hub for art workers. This will take both physical (in order to provide a space fostering solidarity and de-individualisation) and digital (in order to maximise access and reach) form. This is being conducted in collaboration with Newbridge Projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | PEG2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Policy Excellence Group 2020 Conference: Citizen Engagement, Technology & the Role of Policy Makers. This conference considered how to improve civil servant and policy-makers engagement with the citizens they serve and make best use of new techniques for public policy design and delivery. The conference offered learning from partners across the public, private and voluntary sectors. Attendees examined how citizen engagement can help build better-informed policy interventions and how civil society can most effectively collaborate with central and local government, to improve the quality of the experience of public service users. Alongside this, contributors gave their thoughts on the ways in which new technologies in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning are transforming policy design and delivery. Not-Equal principal Investigator Clara Crivellaro was involved in a panel session about the potential benefits and risks associated with the integration of new and emergent technologies (e.g. data science and data-driven decision-making systems) to inform the design and delivery of public policy. The activity served to create new connections. As a result we are discussing collaboration avenues with civic servant at the Child Maintenance & Policy Exploration Division, DWP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Panel : Artificial Stupidity (Clara Crivellaro) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Science Speakeasy Event. An informal evening with expert panel discussion on the impact and opportunities of AI integration in public services across domains of everyday life. 55 members of the general public attended the event hosted at a local science museum. Following panelist presentation members of the public asked questions related to the topic of the event. The organisers reported higher than usual engagement and interest in the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.life.org.uk/events/artificial-stupidity |
| Description | Parker Trust Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Parker Trust is a charity based in Sunderland that provides advice and assistance for vulnerable members of society. It also organises programmes of physical, educational, social activities. Not Equal held a workshop with Parker Trust members and the public to engage attendees on the broad topic of computer supported decision making. The attendees were invited to share their experiences through 'computer says no' scenario and exploring what they would change in the digital economy. The responses from attendees at the workshop were tailored into the network agenda and future community based activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Pilot Youth Engagement Activity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | The purpose of the activity was to generate insights to include youth voices in the development of the call for proposals and commissioning process of research and collaborations between academic and non-academic partners. As part of the Youth Engagement programme, a short pilot study was conducted to test a model for engaging Network+ partners, computing undergraduates and school pupils, aiming to determine if this model would support sustained, larger-scale engagements in the New Year. Open Rights Group had previously been asked to make a suggestion for a research question they would be keen to explore on young people's perspectives, perception and practices. Following a discussion with Open Rights Group, the following question was drafted: "What are young people's thoughts on and practices in safety and privacy online?" In December 2018, computing undergraduates designed and helped to facilitate a workshop with Mr Wild's Year 10 GCSE computing students at Churchill Community College, North Tyneside. The young people to create their own game that could help them to engage and discuss safety and privacy online, and be played in other classrooms around the UK. Each group was provided with blank playing cards to fill in with challenges, questions and scenarios where points could be awarded for their decisions and discussions. Once the cards had been created, the young people tested the game and discussed their own thoughts and practices about safety and privacy online. When these games had finished, we asked the young people to summarise how companies, charities and academic organisations could respond to their concerns. The young people created a game that can be adapted and used in other situations, and raised several concerns about data protection and use, fraud and awareness of the issues. Because this was a trial, the most significant outcome of this activity was a piloted process that can be adapted and repeated with other partners and participants: - a community group that will come up with a question - undergraduates who will design and implement an activity - secondary level students who will participate in the activity and provide themes for the network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Platform Cooperatives talk by Duncan McCann |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was followed by a discussion and action planning activity. The aim was to learn about the New Economic Foundation's (NEF) projects and what they could tell us about platform cooperatives. The meeting involved people from all over Sussex and beyond, interested in the Future of Work centre being formed at Sussex. The outcomes from the talk include shared knowledge and support for intersecting interests and a collaboration between NEF and the University of Sussex Business School on a business plan for a Brighton based taxi cooperative. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Post Automation Symposium - Ann Light |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This Symposium explored the idea and practice of post-automation for sustainability. Collectively the attendees: analysed subversions of society-technology relations characteristic of post-automation; discussed how the idea of post-automation might contribute to future work, sustainable development, and technology politics; and mapped out critical issues in post-automation and develop an agenda for future research and action. From this we have new visions on how post-automation can foster more sustainable and democratic modes of production. The organisers are now negotiating a special issue on post-automation with a leading scientific journal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Power Workshop - Harry Weeks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was delivered through the Not-Equal funded 'Opening Doors' project, led by Harry Weeks. This project aims to examine the current and potential impacts of technology, in particular digital platforms, on the inequalities of the cultural sector. The series of workshops were collectively titled 'Assembly: A Forum for Artists in Precarious Labour' and were conceived of as spaces in which artists could freely and frankly discuss their working lives. The safety of the space, engendering a spirit of free and open conversation, was key to the project as previous research undertaken by the PI had found that the taboo surrounding the discussion of working conditions was a key inhibitor of solidarity and organisation amongst precarious cultural workers. The events were designed to serve as opportunities for people to share lived experiences, as well as tactics and strategies for alleviating the impacts of precarity. Each topic served as both a provocation for thought and reflection on people's conditions and experiences, and as a forum for action and the sharing of resources. Led by Priya Mistry, this workshop explored diversity and representation within the sector. Participants produced drafts of collectively written demands for change within the sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Prototyping the Food Commons - Sara Heitlinger |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this day-long workshop held at Spitalfields Farm, the attendees brainstormed ideas for new algorithmic systems to create a future food commons. We imagined that these organisations existed on a 'blockchain' - a digital system that allows geographically dispersed members to co-ordinate securely. Blockchain technologies are best known as the underlying infrastructure for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. In creating what are known as "Distributed Autonomous Organisations" (DAOs) on the blockchain, participants were experimenting with new algorithmic methods for valuing and exchanging labour between multiple species in the process of growing food. This series of work will be turned into a book publication that brings together the three prototypes with reflections on the co-design process. And also a toolkit to allow other groups to develop their own live action roleplay games. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://algorithmicfoodjustice.net/final-workshop-prototyping-the-food-commons |
| Description | Prototyping the Food commons |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | http://algorithmicfoodjustice.net/final-workshop-prototyping-the-food-commons |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://algorithmicfoodjustice.net/final-workshop-prototyping-the-food-commons |
| Description | Public engagement with algorithms in public services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The briefing note summarises the completed findings of the project which mapped and analysed 77 cases of public engagement with algorithms in public services in the UK. The report gives insights into the diversity of existing public engagement with the use of algorithms in public services, as well as the emerging trends in the focus of these engagements, including around health and social care and policing, and concerning a range of different technical applications of algorithms in facial recognition technologies, data aggregation, chatbots, risk profiling among other approaches. It also explores broader public perspectives on the benefits and risks of these emerging approaches expressed in these cases of engagement, from discrimination and privacy to broader debates about service provision needs. It concludes with some points on how we can ensure the continuing responsible and ethical development of these approaches, which draw on a stakeholder workshop hosted in February 2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://uea3s.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/public-engagement-with-algorithms-in-public-services.pdf |
| Description | Resistance is Fertile: Reproduction, Politics and Resistance - Who Cares |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The team talked at the Resistance is Fertile: Reproduction, Politics and Resistance one day conference at Goldsmiths College. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=12747 |
| Description | Salsa 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Citizen-Centred Cyber Resilience: Building Resilient Communities from the Ground up workshop brought together experts on cyber security and community resilience to discuss how to build cyber-resilient communities. The event begun by framing the issue and introducing the different perspectives-community resilience in contexts other than cyber security and cyber resilience. Following a lunch break, participants engaged in round-table discussions on what a cyber-resilient community would look like, how it can be achieved, and what needs to be considered. The discussions followed by presentations on existing citizen-centred cybersecurity initiatives. The closing session brought the previously discussed challenges and opportunities into concrete steps towards scaling and inclusivity. The goal of the workshop was to explore ways to build resilience from the ground up by including and engaging citizens. Clara Crivellaro (PI Not-Equal) was an invited speaker, which involved discussion about cyber resilient communities and the potential benefits associated with a bottom up approach to develop community resilience. The activity served to foster discussion about this important topics and create new connections for potential Not-Equal projects and events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Security Theory Hack |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Six PhD students from Royal Holloway took part in the a security theory hack workshop at RHUL on the 29th of March 2019. They were joined by Design Theorist Peter Hall from Central St Martins, London and Matt Spencer, Sociology of Technology scholar, University of Warwick. The aim of the workshop was to use the creative securities' LEGO modelling approach to model a lived experience of a sociotechnical security problem and to think through the problem from a particular security theoretical start point. Participants selected their theoretical start point using an interactive map of social and political theories of security. During the workshop, participants were encouraged to explore how different theoretical start points might change the security responses in a particular sociotechnical scenario. Theories are used as design provocations to challenge how we might respond to the security issues. The theory's job is to challenge our standard technical security responses. The workshop session produced three sociotechnical models in LEGO that described technical security problems that challenge notions of fairness and equality. The LEGO models were universally considered to be a good and effective way to share different disciplinary perspectives. It was also regarded as a useful way to explain technological complexity. The theoretical position was a useful design start point for one of the models. With the other models, the theory position was a useful means of unpacking the security problems. More preparation and guidance needs to be given to enable effective deployment of the theories. A process for using the theory as a design intervention might perhaps help. The idea of translating a pared down version to a card deck seems likely to be helpful here too. Integrating the theory with the LEGO modelling process will be undertaken next time. This activity was a useful means of bringing together social scientists and those from the technical side of security. The PhD student group was made up of 3 social scientists, 1 computer scientists and 2 mathematicians. Further refinements are needed but this workshop formed the basis of a means for bringing together interdisciplinary conversations about fairness and equality in the context of digital control. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Seminar: Designing User Interactions with AI: Servant, Master or Symbiosis (Alan Dix) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Seminar sparked questions and debate on the relationship between social justice and new and emergent technologies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.slideshare.net/alanjohndix/rome-seminar-designing-user-interactions-with-ai |
| Description | Seminar: Why pandemics and climate change are hard to understand and make decision making difficult (Alan Dix) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Online HCI and UX Online Seminars organised by Interacting with Computers and British Computer Society Interaction Specialist Group. Seminar sparked questions and debates on social justice, ecological justice and computing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Small Smart Farms - Trialing of SFT prototypes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Two prototypes were introduced based on previous online engagement and discussed. They were subsequently trialled on the croft and feedback was given directly on the utility and impact of each prototype. Feedback and discussion has continued since the project visit. Supply issues have impacted the creation of two of the prototypes suggested, but these are currently in development and will be trialled again with the same crofter after the project end date |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Special Interest Group on Co-operativism and HCI at CHI conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This activity included small group work eliciting themes and issues and networking to build a community in this under-researched area. The goal was to set an agenda for further work in HCI as it's never been considered as a set of issues before and the potential for 'enabling platforms' is becoming more apparent and, at the same time, more contested. This activity produced lots of ideas for work and agenda setting and led to a new network of people, particularly ECRs, interested in solidarity and alternative economic models. A follow-on activity is for Not-Equal to fund an event to kick start this, being UK based. Additionally, there are plans for an article to be written by the organisers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Summer School 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Not-Equal Network hosted an online summer school to provide early career researchers with training in social justice issues within the digital economy. As part of this experts from industry, academia and third sector were invited to host workshops within this for participants. Participants benefitted from exploring new topics and developing insights on data justice research. They were given the opportunity to brainstorm on range of different topics and learn about interlinked concepts and interact with other participants with shared interests. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://not-equal.tech/not-equal-summer-school-2021/ |
| Description | Summer Webinar Series 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Four webinars hosting invited speakers from digital technology, literature, social and digital justice were held to explore a range of different topics across digital justice. A breadth of topics were explored, attendees were exposed to enlightening subjects and there was lively discussion at the events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://not-equal.tech/summer-webinars/ |
| Description | Switch Gig interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with wired exploring Switch-Gig project and outcomes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Talk : Trustworthy AI & inequality: questions and reflections from a network project on social justice & the digital economy (Clara Crivellaro) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation sparked debates and questions on the relationship between AI and social justice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://computing.ulster.ac.uk/TAI-RM2022/ |
| Description | Talk at Future of Work Event - Ann Light |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation at the University of Sussex, Future of Work Event, explaining the Not-Equal Network and activities, especially in the field of fairer futures for workforces and businesses. The aim was to raise profile of Not-Equal and promote awareness of the Network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk: "Designing for care-time: Experiments in the more-than-human smart city " (Sara Heitlinger) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.designinformatics.org/event/designing-temporal-ecologies-symposium/ |
| Description | Talk: AI for Social Justice (Clara Crivellaro and Alan Dix) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked debates and question on the role that AI can play in social justice endeavours. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.informatech.com/brands/ai-summit-series |
| Description | Talk: Supporting Online Legal Aid (Adam Wyner) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Law (SAIL) is a five-day, virtual event that aims to bring together experts from Industry and Academia to discuss the future of AI and Law. Abstract: A client who runs into legal problems about debt or housing might turn to a legal aid advisor on how to resolve them. The client must provide the advisor with detailed personal data and preferences; the advisor must reason over the data and preferences; then a solution must be selected. A range of social service organisations and debtors may need to be considered. The problem is fairly complex and requires expert advice. In the UK, charities often provide legal advice, though with insufficient funding or staffing. This gives rise to a gulf between the need for advice and the resources to provide it. The talk presents some initial work on the COVID-19 Debt Advice Project to address legal aid with an online consultation tool. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~saptarshi/sail2021/sail2021-adam-wyner.mp4 |
| Description | TechMums Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a trial engagement with a group of mothers attending the TechMums https://techmums.co/ course and just beginning to use digital tech or developing their use of tech and learning about how they can use it (more) in their daily lives and careers. The activity aimed to engage around the Network+ broad topics of algorithmic social justice and digital security in order to guide the Network+ research agenda and future activities as well as possibly providing recruits for the 2nd Citizen's panel and educating participants about security online. The workshop allowed participants to reflect on, discuss and debate the issues presented. Participants completed a mapping exercise around Automated Moderation and came up with ideas on how the process could be made more trustworthy and how they could protect themselves against potential effects. Additionally participants expressed an interest in participating in the next Community Panel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | The Bits Leak Out-Swansea Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In this one-day event, interested participants heard and shared current research on the ways digital infrastructures affect social justice, explored what trans-disciplinary responses may be required for technology to support social justice, and influenced the agenda and funding process of Not Equal. The workshop activities included discussions into the issues raised from the non-academic survey responses, speakers from Google and Ulster University. Outcomes for the event included 15 new network members and potential future project applications for Not Equal's call for proposals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://not-equal.tech/navigating-potential-biases-in-algorithm-driven-processes-the-bits-leak-out-w... |
| Description | The Collaborative Economy Symposium-Clara Crivellaro Keynote |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Clara Crivellaro, Not Equal PI, attended The Collaborative Economy Symposium at Sheffield Hallam University and presented a keynote on Not Equal 'A model for democratising innovation through collaborative commissioning of research'. The symposium brought together interested participants to hear about current research on the topic of the collaborative economy and its implications and to discuss possible joint initiatives and projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://luiginaciolfi.net/ |
| Description | The Invisible Worker Open Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The event comprised two exhibitions looking at the intersection of work and technology, with the intention of platforming the voices of those in precarious work as a means to ask questions to the public about the nature of work in the 21st century. The principal aim was to get people to engage with the topic on their own terms and in their own times. From conversations had with people at the outdoor and indoor exhibition, the impact was to get people to ask questions about the conditions that lead people in to precarious work and the multitude of vulnerabilities that manifest in situations like the covd-19 pandemic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://not-equal.tech/portfolio/invisible-worker/ |
| Description | The Wage Pledge for Academic Use of Crowdsourcing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Knowledge dissemination among users of crowdsourcing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The Wage Pledge for Academic Use of Crowdsourcing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Knowledge dissemination among users of crowdsourcing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | The crisis of care.com - Who Cares |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The crisis of care.com article on Open Democracy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/crisis-carecom/ |
| Description | The future of techno-disruption in gig economy workforces: challenging the dialogue with fictional abstracts - Oliver Bates |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A conference presentation and panel discussion at Halfway to the Future 2019 (HTTF 2019) in Nottingham, entitled 'The future of techno-disruption in gig economy workforces: challenging the dialogue with fictional abstracts'. The presentation highlighted a provocative design approach to thinking about futures of the gig economy and the impact on workers. This work was used a mechanism to develop fictional abstracts that help stakeholders critique and design for different futures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Theory Hack Feb 2020 - Lizzie Coles-Kemp |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This activity was a Theory Hack centred on the 'digital security for all' Not-Equal challenge area at Monash University, Australia. The aim was To use the concept of the social contract to explore how equity, inclusion, respect and kindness can be considered as part of digital design. Participants were introduced to the notion of the social contract and asked to consider how this concept informs design of digital services and technology. It also asked participants to reflect on the effects the notion of social contract has for communities using that service and the security such a service offers. There were 12 attendees from Monash University, Australia. A key outcome was the development of new ways to disrupt technological security thinking to include issues of justice, fairness and inclusion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Theory Hack Jan 2020 - Lizzie Coles-Kemp |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This activity was a Theory Hack centred on the 'digital security for all' Not-Equal challenge area at Warwick University. The aim was to use different security theory start-points to examine security logics at play in a given scenario. Participants were introduced to different ways of thinking about security and the ways in which security logics can disbenefit and benefit individuals and communities. There were 12 attendees from Warwick University and the University of the Arts, London. A key outcome was the development of new ways to disrupt technological security thinking to include issues of justice, fairness and inclusion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Theory Hack March 2019 - Lizzie Coles-Kemp |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This activity was a Theory Hack centred on the digital security for all challenge area, at Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL). The aim was to use different security theory start-points to examine security logics at play in a given scenario. Participants were introduced to different ways of thinking about security and the ways in which security logics can disbenefit and benefit individuals and communities. Attendees included 12 people drawn from RHUL, Warwick University and the University of the Arts, London. A key outcome was the development of new ways to disrupt technological security thinking to include issues of justice, fairness and inclusion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Unite Workshop - Harry Weeks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop was delivered through the Not-Equal funded 'Opening Doors' project, led by Harry Weeks. This project aims to examine the current and potential impacts of technology, in particular digital platforms, on the inequalities of the cultural sector. The series of workshops were collectively titled 'Assembly: A Forum for Artists in Precarious Labour' and were conceived of as spaces in which artists could freely and frankly discuss their working lives. The safety of the space, engendering a spirit of free and open conversation, was key to the project as previous research undertaken by the PI had found that the taboo surrounding the discussion of working conditions was a key inhibitor of solidarity and organisation amongst precarious cultural workers. The events were designed to serve as opportunities for people to share lived experiences, as well as tactics and strategies for alleviating the impacts of precarity. Each topic served as both a provocation for thought and reflection on people's conditions and experiences, and as a forum for action and the sharing of resources. The 2nd workshop was hosted by artists Sue Jones and Loraine Monk, participants mapped their own individual economies and shared experiences of unionisation and its difficulties within a sector dominated by freelancing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Universal Credit Call for Evidence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Not-Equal responded to The House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee request for written evidence for an inquiry on Universal Credit: The wait for a first payment. Many organisations have concluded that the wait must be redsuced or eliminated entirely, however there is a lack of agreement on how this might be most effectively - or affordably - achieved. A document by Not Equal and partners reported key findings from three distinct case studies from UKRI funded projects, part of the Not-Equal Network+ that investigated barriers and hurdles in accessing essential digital services. The case studies are: Welfare Claimant Study - delivered as part of the UKRI funded Cyber Security Cartographies Project (CYSECA), that sets out to understand the informal networks that influence and support access to digital services; UKRI funded People Powered Algorithms that explores ways to increase transparency in the relationships between policy, technology and the digital experience; UKRI funded Not-Equal Network+ Community Consultation that investigated fairness and social justice in the digitalisation of services in partnership with a third sector organisation and their service users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | V&A Digital Design Weekend |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | As part of the V & A design week, Not Equal hosted a table at the event and delivered drop-in engagement activities to invite members of the public to contribute to the debate on social justice in the digital economy and how we might respond to the issues in our everyday lives. Participants were asked to reflect on the boundaries of what may be considered just or unjust in the uses of smart devices in everyday life, there were over 21 responses from participants who listed unjust technologies and 12 from those who listed just technologies. Not Equal also had 28 attendees sign up to the network during the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.vam.ac.uk/festival/2018/london-design-festival-2018 |
| Description | VCSE Sector Digital Inclusion Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Digital inclusion practitioners (broadly defined) from VCSE sector organisations in the North-East of England were invited to share their experiences of doing digital inclusion work.[Text Wrapping Break][Text Wrapping Break]Over the course of 2-4 workshops, each participant participant: - Introduced their organisations' work, including current challenges as well as success stories - Discussed the underlying values behind their digital inclusion work - Evaluated common approaches to digital inclusion work, highlighting strengths and weaknesses in terms of effectiveness, how appropriate they were to their context, and sustainability. - Had the opportunity to provide constructive feedback on each others' digital inclusion projects. - Collaboratively negotiated and reflected upon a shared set of values, unmet needs, and assets that they collectively possessed with respect to their digital inclusion work - Used these values, needs and assets as design material to conceptualise new interventions Outcomes: -Several novel ideas for approaches to digital inclusion work in the local VCSE sector were generated. Some of these will inform future research, whilst the participants are being supported to begin their own collaborations in order to work on others. -Participants were able to engage in long-term planning and develop their views beyond the scope of the crisis currently occurring in digital inclusion as a result of the pandemic. -Participants were able to build productive networks with like-minded potential collaborators in their region. -Participants provided actionable feedback and ideas on each other's ongoing digital inclusion projects. -Workshop data is informing the creation of a report for use by the VCSE sector (production ongoing at time of writing) in order to summarise the current state of the sector in the region for the purposes of informing future work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Virtual Community Panel 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Training for panel of members from civil society was provided by Not-Equal team members and facilitators to allow participants to assess the impact of research proposals for the second round of commissioning. The training included provocations to invite participants to take on the roles of various stakeholders and think critically about issues within the digital technologies area. Following the training, participants were able to co-develop criteria for and evaluate research proposals as a contribution to the proposal selection process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Virtual Q&A |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Not-Equal offered a question and answer session for potential applicants for research funding to help potential applicants have a clear understanding of the commissioning process. Participants in the Q&A session had their questions answered and were better informed about the commissioning process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Wage Pledge for Academic Use of Crowdsourcing Consultative Workshop 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Design input for the pledge and signatory recruitment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Wage Pledge for Academic Use of Crowdsourcing Workshop 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Design input for the pledge and signatory recruitment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | What does this city farm need to thrive into the future? - Sarah Heitlinger |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was the first workshop in the series for the project 'Co-designing a Sustainable Food Justice System with Blockchain Futures' aiming to prototype more-than-human values for the food commons with urban agricultural communities. Attendees included participants from a range of community gardens and organisations including the London Freedom Seed Bank, Cordwainers Grow, Phytology/Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, John Evelyn Community Garden, the Permaculture Association, the Nightingale Community Garden, the Selby Estate community garden, and the Zimbabwean Association growers as well as staff from Spitalfields Farm. This event tackled 2 main questions 1. who are the human and non-human stakeholders of the city farm/community garden both now and in 2030? 2. what are the the different resources of the future community farm/garden? The materials generated in this workshop informed the development of the next workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://algorithmicfoodjustice.net/first-workshop-mapping-the-future-farm |
| Description | Why everyone should care about the dangers of algorithmic bias - Alan Dix, LinkedIn Interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Conny Zelic, Programme and Change Manager at Newcastle University interviewed Not-Equal Co-Investigator, Professor Alan Dix for a LinkedIn Article. This article received 10 comments and 35 likes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-everyone-should-care-dangers-algorithmic-bias-conny-zeli%25C4%258... |
| Description | Women's Voices Group workshop - DESIC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Primary Audience: Women survivors of domestic violence accessing services at the Angelou centre Key Outcomes/Impact: Reporting to social services and the police can be problematic for women experiencing domestic violence and can lead to mistrust and women not disclosing key information due to fear of harm to themselves or children. Data and information collected by agencies shared with the courts can be used by the perpetrator to discredit women's accounts of abuse. Women survivors are held much more accountable for evidencing and reporting on their good parenting skills than abusers are even when women are no longer living with perpetrators. Recognition of these wider issues of data sharing were considered important for women to discuss amongst themselves since this highlighted key learning for staff and women to share amongst themselves. Desire for women survivors and staff to share their findings with social services and police to help highlight these specific challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Workshop on Advancing Data Justice in the Future Generations (Wales) Act |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Workshop identifying avenues for participation and governance in relation to data-driven innovation in the public sector. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Workshop with legal aid advisors - COVID Debt Advice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Team meeting in person with legal aid advisors about the development of the COVID debt helper tool. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |