Reflecting on 2021 and beyond
The end of 2021 was different and yet the same. I wrapped up the year with some amazing experiences, from a wonderful launch podcast on Fragile Futures to finally the in person COP26 conference on Design for Planet. Here I spoke about the challenges of pitting digital inclusivity of the next billion users against the … Continue reading Reflecting on 2021 and beyond
FemTech designs for the next billion
I am delivering a keynote for NetHope’s 20th Anniversary Global Summit on Digital Now /Future of Work with a feminist view of the rising Next Billion Users, their world of work, and the responsibilities by vested stakeholders. I will shed light on the burgeoning industry of femtech and what this means for inclusive design. This … Continue reading FemTech designs for the next billion
UNHCR grant on Digital leisure & Displaced populations in Brazil
Am delighted to announce the launch of the ‘Digital Leisure and Displaced populations in Brazil’ project with John Warnes and Erika Perez Iglesias from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency Innovation Services. “Bringing to light the divide in access to digital leisure challenges the sacred tenet on which the global digital project has been built upon … Continue reading UNHCR grant on Digital leisure & Displaced populations in Brazil
FemLab taking shape
What a journey it has been with FemLab.Co, an IDRC funded initiative that Usha Raman and I kick started in January 2020, right before the pandemic. Our work involves the very people who have been the most affected by covid19 – marginalized and precarious women workers in the Global South struggling to make a living … Continue reading FemLab taking shape
#DesignUpForACause
As the second wave in India unfolds with disastrous consequences and with my continued distance from family, colleagues, and friends in India, I am grateful that the design community has come up with a small way for me to contribute! The organization DesignUp has stepped up and has succeeded in getting an online event #DesignUpForACause … Continue reading #DesignUpForACause
Rest of World Op Ed: AI isn’t going to save us
The AI solutions championed by tech titans promise to repeat a toxic history of self-defined goodness. My Opinion piece is out in the Rest of World Imagine a world with no elephants. Resolve, a nonprofit committed to ending poaching of endangered animals, warns that this fiction could become fact in a mere decade, as an … Continue reading Rest of World Op Ed: AI isn’t going to save us
My review of Wilkerson’s Caste book in NRC
Today, my review on Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer prize winning journalist’s book ‘Caste: the lies that divide us’ is out in the NRC news media outlet in Dutch. Below is the English version. ———————————— Is this the ‘Book of the Century’ or a dangerously seductive tale? Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste is a bible for this divisive … Continue reading My review of Wilkerson’s Caste book in NRC
A lot of ‘firsts’ this month: in the press
What a month! I have to say with all the craziness and intense work pressure, it is rewarding to be acknowledged in the media, in my adopted homeland, The Netherlands, and my prior homeland, the United States. A journalist at the Financial Times in the Netherlands contacted me after reading my article in the NRC … Continue reading A lot of ‘firsts’ this month: in the press
Live talk after 6 months at Hofplein theatre Rotterdam
Since the pandemic kicked in and confined us all to the screen, I have been doing a marathon of webinars with a spectrum of people from academics, product designers, internal tech teams in corporations, public festivals to policy summits. I even did a book talk via Instagram with an influencer which was itself quite an … Continue reading Live talk after 6 months at Hofplein theatre Rotterdam
Twitter war with Rutger Bregman
On June 14 2020, my article in the NRC (Dutch newspaper) critiqued Rutger Bregman, the historian and author celebrity on his “new” story in The Guardian ‘The real lord of the Flies’ that got much attention in these recent weeks and has resulted in a movie deal. What really provoked me to write this article … Continue reading Twitter war with Rutger Bregman
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Payal Arora 