International Conference for an Inclusive Digital Society (IDS2025)

Date: 15.09.2025 - 16.09.2025
Conference / symposium
Format: onsite
Location: Leuven, Belgium
Event Fee: Free

Organizer(s):
KU Leuven Digital Society Institute (DigiSoc)

This conference, organized in the context of celebrating 600 years of KU Leuven, provides a forum to exchange knowledge and inspire each other to contribute to a positive digital society. We invite scholars, citizens, industry professionals, government representatives, and members of non-profit organizations to join us in this crucial conversation, because we need each other to properly grasp the polyvocality and complexity of our current and future digital society. Our conference pays attention to how we, as individuals, communities and society shape digital technologies as well as how these technologies shape critical societal domains such as health & well-being, learning & education, media & culture, democracy & civic engagement, and work & organization. We will explore how the design, development, implementation, governance, and regulation of digital tools permeate every aspect of our lives, often in invisible yet profound ways, and how this can empower some but equally harm others. The rapid advancement of technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things will certainly not slow down. Let’s help shape this digital future positively, influencing our employment, health care and social interactions. But at the same time, let us not remain blind to how it widens the gap between the digital haves and the – often invisible – digital not-haves, or how it presents challenges in terms of polarization and our environment.

https://inclusivedigitalsociety.eu/

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