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IT for Change, a Bengaluru-based NGO moving connected probe and advocacy successful the domain of integer justice, is organising “Our Digital Futures Fest” with a acceptable of events betwixt October 25 and November 1 to people its 25th anniversary.
The events, being organised with The Hindu arsenic its media partner, people the organisation’s enactment successful the country of “people-centered exertion models, grounded successful antiauthoritarian principles, and idiosyncratic and corporate quality rights”.
Multiple events
The fest features an array of events, including sheet discussions, movie screenings, roundtables, and exhibitions, that volition interaction upon trends successful the improvement of technology, nine and their intersections, and wherever India is located connected these trajectories.
The fest comes astatine a captious juncture erstwhile India is aspiring to connection enactment to contextual exertion and AI development, including innovations grounded successful respect for multilingualism, and to support its integer sovereignty amidst rising geopolitical tensions. India is besides acceptable to big the AI Impact Summit successful February 2026, recentering the absorption connected people, planet, and advancement successful the integer epoch, according to the NGO.
The fest begins connected Saturday astatine Bangalore International Centre with a nationalist speech connected “The Screen, Self, and Algorithms” by Dr. Shekhar Seshadri betwixt 11.30 a.m. and 12.45 p.m. The starring kid and teen psychiatrist, successful his talk, volition look into captious questions of surface addiction, individuality formation, and young people’s well-being successful our algorithm-driven world. It volition beryllium moderated by Prof. Sundar Sarukkai, philosopher and author.
A photograph exhibition, “From Fields to Futures,” that captures the originative efforts of teen girls, agrarian women, schoolhouse teachers, and students who person harnessed exertion for inclusive learning successful classrooms and integer storytelling, volition beryllium connected show astatine the aforesaid venue.
The adjacent acceptable of events volition beryllium held connected October 30, 31, and November 1 astatine Infosys Science Foundation arsenic portion of the bid of events.
For much details of the events, visit: https://itforchange.net/events.
