PROJECT SUMMARY
Language and Cultural Diversity in ADM: Australia in the Asia Pacific
Focus Areas: News & Media, Mobilities, Social Services
Status: Active
This project, “Language and Cultural Diversity in ADM: Australia in the Asia Pacific” (LCD), examines where, when and how language and cultural diversity is present in emergent systems of Automated Decision-Making across the Asia-Pacific region.
Encompassing Australia’s Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and First Nations communities, the Asia-Pacific region is home to sixty per cent of the world’s population and, with over 3,000 different languages, represents one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse regions in the world.
The region is also an established hub for technology innovation and is widely noted as an emerging hub for AI, machine learning, and other areas associated with ADM systems.
The combination of cultural and linguistic diversity and growth in ADM technologies provides an important comparative lens for understanding how the design, use and adoption of ADM systems might differ from other parts of the world.
By foregrounding this regional frame, this Signature Project aims to show how diversity in this part of the world offers crucial insights for rethinking equity and inclusion on a global scale, moving beyond the dominance of Eurocentric models of ADM.
The LCD signature project addresses the following research question:
(1) As automated decision-making (ADM) systems become increasingly integrated into daily life across parts of the Asia-Pacific, whose languages and cultures are recognised, valued, and included—and who is left out of the decisions automated technologies make?
(2) What can the linguistic and cultural diversity in ADM inform us about (digital) inclusion?
Adopting a multi-stakeholder collaborative approach, researchers involved in the project will address these questions through a focus upon infrastructure and practice.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
- Develop a better understanding of the landscapes of ADM across the region, including the role of NGOs, industry, government and other stakeholders;
- Empower community members to participate in dialogues concerning diversity in ADM; and
- Build capacity for community organisations in collective bargaining with public policymakers for inclusive and equitable ADM policies.
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RESEARCHERS
Prof Heather Horst
Project Co-Leader and Chief Investigator,
University of Western Sydney
Assoc Prof Daniel Featherstone
Research Fellow,
RMIT University
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Prof Anthony McCosker
Chief Investigator,
Swinburne University
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Dr Adrian Athique
Associate Investigator,
University of Queensland
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Prof Gerard Goggin
Associate Investigator,
University of Western Sydney
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Assoc Prof Jenny Kennedy
Associate Investigator,
RMIT University
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Dr Thao Phan
Affiliate,
ANU
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Prof Jason G. Karlin
Research Partner,
Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies,
University of Tokyo, Japan
Prof Kwang-Suk Lee
Research Partner,
Seoul National University of Science & Technology,
South Korea
Prof Jack Qiu
Research Partner,
Asian Communication Research Centre,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Prof Cheryll Ruth Soriano
Research Partner,
La Salle Institute of Governance and Social Development Research Center,
De La Salle University, The Philippines
PARTNERS
Digital Asia Hub
(Hong Kong)
Telstra
COLLABORATORS
Centre for Trusted
Internet and Community
