The culture I live in is fantastically interesting!

Meet Richard Harper - professor at the Department of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University. He is a Fellow of the IET and the Royal Society of Arts and is currently a Digital Futures scholar in residence...

Elza Erkip: I very much enjoyed interacting with thought leaders during Digitalize in Stockholm 2022!

Many of the activities in cyberspace, from social networking to the use of mobile apps, leave digital footprints compromising the users’ privacy. As digital tracking technologies become more sophisticated and pervasive, there is a need to understand and quantify the users’ privacy risk. That is, what is the likelihood that users in cyberspace can be uniquely identified from their activities? The question was raised by Elza Erkip, Institute Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at New York University Tandon School of Engineering...

AI is here to stay – yet it is still in its childhood…

Digital transformation brings great opportunities – and equally big challenges. To tackle problems and design our future digital society, we need to combine knowledge and experiences from different stakeholders. This is exactly what happened at Digitalize in Stockholm on October 19 – 20, 2022...

My vision is to shape an inclusive and diverse digital society

Meet Digital Futures Scholar in residence Gesche Joost - Professor of Design Research at the Berlin University of the Arts, researcher, founder, political advisor and tech consultant. She also serves on the executive board of the Einsteincenter Digital Future in Berlin...

Shaping a sustainable society through digital transformation

Digital Futures is a cross-disciplinary research centre that explores and develops digital technologies of great societal importance. It was jointly established in 2020 by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, based on significant long-term support of a Strategic Research Area by the Swedish Government.

The vision of Digital Futures is to shape an economically, environmental and socially sustainable society through digital transformation.

Our mission is to create an international breeding ground to excel in research, empower people by fostering innovation, education, leadership and entrepreneurial spirit and build a strong community.

The overall objective of Digital Futures is to become one of the top five university research centres worldwide in the area of technologies for digital transformation, with tight interactions between academia, industry and society.

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