Payal Arora is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 and co-founder of Inclusive AI Lab, a Global South driven tech initiative and , a feminist futures of work initiative. She is a leading digital anthropologist with two decades of user experiences in the Global South to help shape inclusive AI enabled designs and policies. Payal is the author of 100+ journal articles and award-winning books including 鈥�鈥� with Harvard Press. Forbes named her the 鈥榥ext billion champion鈥� and the 鈥榬ight kind of person to reform tech.鈥� She has been listed in the and for her work on Diversifying AI. Her new book with MIT Press 鈥�鈥� has been longlisted for the and the Silver Medalist for the under the Emerging Tech/AI category. 200+ international media outlets have covered her work including the , , , BBC, , and . She has consulted for the public and the private sector including UNHCR, Spotify, KPMG, Adobe, IDEO, Google, and GE and sits on several boards including for UN EGOV, and LIRNE-Asia. She has given 350+ keynotes and invited talks in 85 countries for events such as ACM Facct, Copenhagen Tech Festival, re:publica, COP26, World Economic Forum, Swedish Internet Foundation, alongside figures like Jimmy Wales and Steve Wozniak, and TEDx talks on the future of the internet and innovation. She is a alumnus and is Indian, American, and Irish and calls Amsterdam her home.
From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech (MIT Press)
The Next Billion Users: Digital life Beyond the West. (Harvard Press)
Feminist Futures of Work: Reimagining Labour in the Digital Economy (Amsterdam Univ. Press: Open access)
The Leisure Commons. (On how metaphors architect our imagination of the internet) Taylor& Francis
Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas. Ashgate
Shape of Diversity to Come (Palgrave)
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