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SUMMARY:Relational Digital Inclusion: The Politics of Care and Connection
DESCRIPTION:Our third annual INCLUDE+ event spotlights the 2024–2025 cohort of funded projects that tackle the complex realities of digital inclusion. These projects speak to the contradictions of digital inclusion today: being connected but excluded\, visible in systems but unheard in decisions. At a time of limited resources and growing need\, they offer grounded\, local responses that question assumptions and expand what digital inclusion can mean in practice.   \n\n\n\nRecent developments such as the UK Government’s Digital Inclusion Action Plan and the publication of Digital Minimum Standards suggest there is still space and momentum for change. Combined with what we’ve learned from the INCLUDE+ project communities\, and drawing on the IN+ Principles\, these developments give us new tools and perspectives: They remind us that even in an unpredictable and uneven landscape\, there is potential to build more grounded\, inclusive\, and sustainable futures if we do it together.  \n\n\n\nOur third INCLUDE+ event will spotlight the 2024–2025 cohort of projects supported by the network. These projects speak to the contradictions of digital inclusion today: being connected but excluded\, visible in systems but unheard in decisions. At a time of limited resources and growing need\, they offer grounded\, local responses that question assumptions and expand what digital inclusion can mean in practice. \n\n\n\nWe bring together people working across youth work\, health\, education\, migration\, disability justice\, and community organising in order to share methods\, reflect on common challenges\, and explore how digital inclusion is being defined and delivered from the ground up. Through interactive sessions and project-led activities\, we’ll explore the strategies\, questions\, and relationships that underpin this work. We’ll end the day with collective reflection\, asking what is needed now to ensure digital inclusion is not only a goal\, but a shared\, sustained and community-led practice. \n\n\n\nWe ask:  \n\n\n\n\nHow can we move beyond access to build digital systems rooted in care\, fairness\, and lived experience? \n\n\n\nWhat does it mean to be digitally included?\n\n\n\nWho gets to shape digital tools\, and whose voices are left out of policy decisions?\n\n\n\n\nOur event will include: \n\n\n\n\nProject presentations\n\n\n\nPanel discussion\n\n\n\nWorkshops\n\n\n\nIN+ ART Iterations\n\n\n\nExploration of our network’s core principles\n\n\n\n\nOur mission\n\n\n\nINCLUDE+ is a UKRI/EPSRC funded network exploring how social and digital environments can be built\, shaped and sustained to enable all people to thrive. The five-year programme of activities (2022-2027) will build a knowledge community around in/equalities in digital society that will comprise industry\, academia\, the public and third sectors in response to the UKRI Equitable Digital Society theme. Read more \n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTimeDescription09:30 – 10:00 Registration and facilitated informal table discussions Little Woodhouse 10:00 – 10:30 Welcome address / IN+ Principles across the IN+ Network activities Great Woodhouse  Feasibility Studies Workshops10:30 – 11:00 Youth Digital Cultures Lab Beechgrove Room Online Objectification St George Room 11:00 – 11:10 Break 11:10 – 11:40 Our Futures and AI Beechgrove Room Advokit St George Room 11:40 – 12:00 Break 12:00 – 13:00 Roundtable DiscussionGreat Woodhouse – Jason Tutin\, 100% Digital Leeds– Andrina Dawson\, Voluntary Action Leeds– Uma Amara\, International Labour Organisation– Irene Mackintosh\, Mhor Collective13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Little Woodhouse 14:00 – 15:00 Exploratory Projects and Fellowships Showcase  Beechgrove Room – See the Whole of Me – AI in Everyday Life – Youth Voice – Mapping the IN+ Principles Across the NetworkSt George Room – Truths– Fostering Digital Cultural Participation Leeds – Leeds Digital Volunteering– Gifting Smartphones to People Seeking Asylum15:00 – 15:15 Break15:15 – 16:45 IN+ ART Iterations WorkshopLittle Woodhouse 16:45 – 17:00 Close Little Woodhouse \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeasibility Study Workshops\n\n\n\nChoose one workshop for each session \n\n\n\nSession 1\, 10:30 – 11:00\n\n\n\nYouth Digital Cultures Lab\nHow do we imagine digital futures that are inclusive\, joyful and rooted in non- western paradigms with young individuals? \n\n\n\nThe Youth Digital Cultures Lab seeks to bring together diverse young people from India to meaningfully engage with their experiences of diversity\, joy and meaningful inclusion in digital environments. Our earlier work with INCLUDE+ has shown that diversity remains a key element and factors such as language\, location\, culture\, profession\, education and social groups impact how young people interact\, subvert\, and imagine digital environments in their individual and collective lives. By co-developing speculative and participatory design methodologies with young people\, the lab will deepen and foster non-western understandings and reimaginations of digital environments. This participatory workshop invites you to think\, reflect and build with us. We will explore the core question: ‘What do digital futures look like?’. \n\n\n\n\nOnline Objectification\nExploring barriers to digital civic participation through an anti-objectification intervention \n\n\n\nThis project explores how girls and young women experience objectifying content on social media and will develop intervention resources to foster resilience against harmful content. Drawing on Ofcom’s Online Nation 2023 report\, which highlights the prevalence of such online harm\, the project takes an intersectional approach to understand how vulnerabilities accumulate across gender\, race\, sexuality\, and disability. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will explore what objectification is and how it unfolds for young women in the online space. Participants will be asked to contribute words / short descriptions of objectifying content that will be used to co-develop themes for analysis of participant interviews. If times allows\, we will then use the themes to group anonymised extracts from participant interviews. \n\n\n\n\n\nSession 2\,  11:10 – 11:40\n\n\n\n\nOur Futures and AI\nCome and find out about our youth-led research project to explore the impact that generative AI is having\, particularly on young people’s lives.  The young people have chosen to explore body image\, politics\, university admissions and who pays for AI. The workshop will include an opportunity to participate in the project outputs which will include some guidance for the youth work sector in Scotland. \n\n\n\n\nAdvokit\nDisabled Welfare Experiences and Envisioned Futures under AI Governance \n\n\n\nThis workshop will explore the accessibility challenges faced by people living with communication disabilities such as aphasia in applying for disability benefits. It will present current barriers encountered within public service systems\, including those exacerbated by recent AI-driven changes to disability benefit administration. Participants will be invited to join us in co-developing accessible toolkits designed to empower people with aphasia in navigating these complex systems. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLocation & Accessibility\n\n\n\nUniversity House is centrally located on the University of Leeds campus and room used for our event can be found on Level 2 of the building. Click on the map below to see its location or visit the AccessAble website for a full access guide to University House. \n\n\n\nThe Find Us page of the University of Leeds website provides a full travel guide. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFAQ\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAre travel bursaries available?\n\n\n\nINCLUDE+ has a limited budget to cover participant travel and accommodation for those who would otherwise be unable to attend our events. If this applies to you\, please add your requirements to the registration form\, so that we can book in advance on your behalf. For car mileage\, or if you would prefer to make your own travel arrangements\, we are also able to provide expense claim forms after the event. Information about permissible rates will be provided on request.\n\n\n\n\n\nI’m not an academic or a researcher – will I be able to contribute?\n\n\n\nAbsolutely! INCLUDE+ values all forms of expertise and is particularly keen to engage with organisations and individuals across industry\, the public sector and the third sector. Workshop sessions will be led by our diverse feasibility study teams and Art Iterations facilitators\, and will give a taster of the methods of engagement and co-production methods that they are using. We only ask that you come with an open mind and a sense of curiosity.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStill have more questions?\n\n\n\nPlease contact the INCLUDE+ Coordinator\, Rosie Wilkinson\, if you have any further queries or would like to speak to a member of our Management Group.\n\n\n\nGet in touch
URL:https://includeplus.org/event/relational-digital-inclusion-the-politics-of-care-and-connection/
LOCATION:University House\, University of Leeds\, Lifton PLace\, Leeds\, LS2 9JT
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