Brave Conversations Workshop
Sunday 30 June 2019
ACM Web Science Conference, Boston, USA
Almost a decade ago a small group of people from industry and government, organised a series of conferences in Canberra which sought to bring various communities together to talk about the emerging issues related to humans and technologies (see metalounge).
At the same time a group of luminaries from the Web world were creating Web Science and in the intervening period Web Science has gone on to contribute greatly to the global conversation around the evolving Social Machine.
Brave Conversations gives people the space to imagine alternative futures through robust debate and respectful curiosity, learning from each other, playing with ideas, and asking the questions that are both confronting and potentially will take us to uncomfortable places.
This is not an academic workshop, and there will be no formal published presentations or papers. Our aim is to draw together people from academia, government, business, the media and the third sector – to address some of the profound issues that are arising as human life becomes progressively entwined with the internet and the Web.
We want to encourage debate, critical thinking, creative design and social awareness. We want to push the boundaries in terms of thinking about the World and the Web. Our focus is on helping to develop “smart humans” for the digital age.
To register your attendance, please visit the Workshop website