With this talk Christina aims to discuss with technologists, management and employees what it will take to protect human rights in increasingly digitalised workplaces. What are the relations and responsibilities between tech developers, deployers and those who are subjects of the systems? Who should be assessing and governing what? And what new competencies are needed to do this right?

Widely regarded as a thought leader on the futures of work(ers) and the politics of digital technology, Dr Christina J. Colclough is an advocate for the workers’ voice and for strong, quality public services. She founded the Why Not Lab with the aim to reshape the current digitalisation trajectory in order to protect human rights, freedoms and autonomy.
Christina’s background is in labour market research and in the global labour movement, where she led their future of work policies, advocacy and strategies for a number of years. She was the author of the union movement's first principles on Workers' Data Rights and the Ethics of AI.

The Why Not Lab is engaged in capacity building projects across the world bridging theoretical understanding with practical workplace realities. Christina is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK, an Advisory Board member of the Carnegie Council AI and Equality Initiative, member of the OECD AI expert group and is affiliated to Copenhagen University.