Digital technologies are increasingly being used in disability services and the disability sector to automate parts of decision-making processes. The disability sector’s relationship with digital technologies is complex, with some technological innovations improving accessibility for people with disability while others create new barriers of exclusion. Increasing automation in decision making in disability service provision promises timely, tailored and accurate decision making, but risks further excluding people with a disability from decisions that are made about their care and day-to-day life.

A conversation between Julian Thomas, Amanda Robinson and Ivana Jurko exploring the Humanitech (Australian Red Cross) and ADM+S partnership.

What does sex tech look like in an age of surveillance capitalism, when our data is collected and monetised at scale?

How can we use digital media for the prevention and mitigation of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)?

Explore how emerging technologies such as automated decision-making (ADM) and artificial intelligence (AI) tools are being designed, understood, and imagined within contexts of health and wellbeing, and what better and more inclusive futures can be developed.

A creative workshop that experiments with different visions of the future of autonomous vehicles as part of Melbourne Design Week.

This webinar will discuss how China-related research is undertaken within pandemic conditions.

Researchers and industry stakeholders from across Australia will share insights into how to improve digital inclusion for low-income families around the country.

Search engines have developed algorithms that abstract information from fact sharing websites like Wikipedia, yet it is often unclear when viewing structured information on search results where the information is coming from and whether it is credible. What are the implications of these recent trends for verifiable search results, fact checking and for the free knowledge movement?

This roundtable conversation brings together social researchers, and sexual health promotion experts to share their insights into emerging research and practical responses at the intersection of digital cultures and sexual health in Australia.

Join us to launch the anthology Conflict in My Outlook, bringing together contemporary artworks and new texts shedding light on human experience in an era where data is the new oil.

How will new digital technologies, like IoT, cloud, AI/ML and blockchain, reshape our city in the future? This thought-provoking discussion will examine how current technology trends — such as working from home — are increasingly moving our economic and social activity online.