Keynote speakers
Attila Márton is a digital ecologist, studying the digitalization of core social phenomena at the confluence of sociology and information management. His main purpose is to propel ecosystemic thinking to make digitalization serve humanity. To this effect, he is currently exploring the co-evolutionary dynamics between platforms and their respective ecosystems, the political ecology of digital labour and AI, the sociology of digital knowledge and forgetting, and the re-decentralization of the internet.
Silvia Masiero operates within the area of information and communication technology for development (ICT4D), with a focus on the role of digital platforms in socio-economic development processes. She has conducted extensive work on the computerisation of India's main food security programme, the Public Distribution System (PDS), and on the adoption of ICTs in core aspects of the Indian public sphere including elections, rural employment guarantees and programmes of social protection. Two further areas of current research interest are digital identity systems and the adoption of ICTs in contexts of humanitarian emergency, such as the current global refugee crisis.