Online workshop: Recognising, Resisting, and Reorienting Algorithmic Systems for Disability Justice
This workshop engages with disability and disablement in relation to the growing impact of data analytics and algorithmic decision-making (ADM) in the public sector. The workshop brings together lived experience, advocate perspectives, legal expertise, and academic analysis in discussion of the problems and potentialities that ADM poses for disabled people. A series of short presentations will explore how digital data is used to measure and classify disability for administrative purposes, instances of prejudice and unfair treatment, the ways dis/ableism is embedded in ADM systems, and the various dynamics that put people with disability at a high risk of algorithmic harm. Then, workshop participants will engage in an interactive group activity. This will involve discussing strategies to ensure government bureaucracies are held accountable for algorithmic harms, as well as exploring methods to resist and reorient algorithmic systems toward the goals of disability justice. This event will be empowering and educational!
Featured speakers are:
- Michaela Chen, Researcher and Advocate, Foxglove UK
- Rick Burgess, Outreach, Development & Campaigns Lead, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People
- Kevin De Liban, Director of Advocacy at Legal Aid of Arkansas
- Marie Johnson, Centre for Digital Business (Australia)
- Asher Wolf, information activist (Australia)
The workshop will be held on Thurs. 29 June, at 9:00-11:00 BST via zoom. The zoom link will be distributed closer to the event.
To book a place or if you have any questions, email the facilitator of the event Georgia Van Toorn g.vantoorn@unsw.edu.au
