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Making Technology Work for Everyone

In: HUMANISING TECHNOLOGY REFLECTIONS ON DESIGN, ETHICS AND INCLUSION

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The final theme in this collection turns to the question of inclusion: how do we make technology work for everyone? For all the talk of innovation as an engine of progress, the reality is that its benefits are not distributed evenly. Technologies often carry the imprint of the societies in which they are built, reifying existing norms around class, age, gender and ethnicity. As a result, those who are already vulnerable — women, the elderly, children, and minority communities — may find themselves more exposed to online harms, algorithmic discrimination, or simply neglect…

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  • Sun Sun Lim, 2025. "Making Technology Work for Everyone," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: HUMANISING TECHNOLOGY REFLECTIONS ON DESIGN, ETHICS AND INCLUSION, chapter 5, pages 175-218, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education

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