CANCELLED: Water Transition and Technology in the Covid-19 Era
Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances this event has been cancelled.
Dr. Theodora Dryer (NYU) discusses the intersections between digital and data justice and water transition policies.
Since March 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has catalysed a wave of “relief” policy that both includes and excludes matters of equitable water access and water justice. Instead, these crisis relief policies centre economic growth and efficiency models. The Covid-19 era is not unique, relief policies have long allowed tech entities to expand growth agendas in the name of climate and scarcity solution. Therefore, examination of this moment urges us, with critical historical reflexivity, to confront the use of technologies derived from extant extractive economic systems in future water transition policies.
Dr. Theodora Dryer is the Lead Research Scholar for Climate + Water at the AI Now Institute and Research Assistant Professor at NYU. She is a historian of data, algorithms, and anxiety who situates technologies in their rooted geopolitical and environmental contexts. She researches how digital technologies intersect with water rights and environmental justice.
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