On January 30, 2025, an EURIDICE event at VU Amsterdam on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Light of the Digital Transformation will take place.

Program

10:30 – 10:55 Keynote 1: Saa Dittoh (UDS, Tamale, Ghana): Integrating Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge for Sustainable Food Systems in Africa — The Plug-In Principle
10:55 – 11:20 Keynote 2: Julia Neidhardt (TU Wien, Vienna, Austria): SDGs and Digital Transformation in the Light of Digital Humanism

11:20 – 12:00 Round-Table Discussion (moderated by Anna Bon), including the keynote speakers and 3 student ICT4D master project pitches and posters:

• Marcel Stelte – Gender Bias against LGBT+ in Software Design [SDG-5]
• Oleksandr Zakotianskyi – Predicting War with AI —Explainable Probabilistic Forecasting of Conflict-Related Fatalities [SDG-16]
• Auke Schuringa – Energy-efficient resourcing of small indigenous languages [SDG-8/9]

Details

You can find the details about the venue, abstracts of the talks, and program here.