The world has been transformed by the increased availability of data, the development of new tools to understand it, and the proliferation of ways to use it in applications and creative endeavors. Join UCLA DataX and Professor of Information Studies, Ramesh Srinivasan for the third event in the DataX Workshop Series – Designing our future: "Environment, Community and Technology." Hear from an interdisciplinary panel and learn how we can creatively imagine our future together as technology proliferates along with the challenges of civic and community engagement.
Panel
Julien Antelin is the Senior Director of Personnel and Innovation in the Office of Mayor Karen Bass, City of Los Angeles. In this role, Julien is deeply involved in leveraging data and technology to enhance the delivery of City services and the improvement of City department operations.
Michelle Caswell is a Professor of Archival Studies in the UCLA Department of Information Studies, founder and co-director of UCLA Community Archive's Lab, Co-founder of the Southern Asian American Digital Archive, and Special Advisor to the EVCP on Community-Engaged Scholarship. Her research on archives, memory, public history, and social justice has been widely cited in a range of fields and helps to build a critical feminist approach to archival studies.
Noopur Raval is an Assistant Professor in Information Studies at the Department of Information Studies. Raval is an interdisciplinary interpretivist scholar trained in humanistic social sciences, critical technology studies and studies a range of topics such as the Future of Workers and Work, AI futures for global South/Majority World communities, Big Tech and Change-making to name a few.
Ramesh Srinivasan (moderator) is a Professor of Design Media Arts and Information Studies, Founder and Director of UC Digital Cultures Lab, Assistant Director of Community Engagement, DataX. He blends his skills as a leading academic, author, engineer, social scientist, storyteller, policy adviser, and thought leader to shine a light on how technology and innovation, from all quarters and countries, will make a balanced world possible, for all.
