AI, power, and sociotechnical inequalities
unequal access, capacities, ownership, and control.
Coloniality, dependency, and technological sovereignty
concentrated platforms, models, data, and infrastructures; local autonomy and situated appropriation.
AI, knowledge, and epistemic mediation
authority, source visibility, bias, and changes in research and learning.
Algorithmic visibility, information, and democracy
the ordering of information, public debate, pluralism, and accountability.
Data, digital infrastructures, and power
data centres, digital labour, AI supply chains, value extraction, and socioenvironmental impacts.
Sociotechnical design, inclusion, and alternatives
accessible, participatory, and critical methods of design and evaluation.
Digital technologies, communities, and situated knowledges
co-production, local appropriation, and respect for community knowledge.
AI, labour, and social transformation
automation, platforms, skills, working conditions, and institutional alternatives.
Additional fields of application
These directions are envisaged in the founding documents and will develop in line with the network’s capacities and projects. Research directions do not imply that every corresponding project has already been delivered.
- Digital transformation and AI in SMEs
- Technology transfer and local capacities
- Young people, education and the futures of work
Methods and working approaches
Critical interdisciplinary research
We investigate artificial intelligence and digital technologies as sociotechnical configurations shaped by inequalities, power, governance, labor, infrastructure, and technological dependency.
Experimentation and technological alternatives
We research, design, and experiment with alternative, inclusive, feminist, and critical technologies and models, without assuming the neutrality of digital systems.
Mapping and data analysis
We develop methodologies to map technological dynamics, value chains, inequalities, infrastructures, and forms of governance across the region.
Editorial and strategic production
We prepare reports, working papers, policy briefs, and pedagogical materials connecting research, public debate, and decision-making.
Organizational models and cooperative technologies
We explore forms of organization, cooperation, and technological production that prioritize social justice, sustainability, intellectual autonomy, and collective benefit.