Living Labs for Human Rights: Innovating for Sustainable and Inclusive Development

The Government of Catalonia and the Fonds de Développement du Service Universel des Télécommunications (FDSUT) of Senegal are jointly committed to ensuring that digital transformation promotes human rights, democracy, and sustainability. This session will explore how a global approach to cooperation can support the Digital SDGs, while addressing the risks of technological inequalities in the Global South, and protecting vulnerable communities through Living Labs. Living Labs are open, user-centered innovation ecosystems that bring together citizens, governments, academia, and industry to co-create, test, and develop solutions within real-life communities.

This session will explore how a global approach to cooperation can support the Digital SDGs, while addressing the risks of technological inequalities in the Global South, and protecting vulnerable communities.

The event will showcase the Living Labs in Senegal, and other case studies as applied models of science for human rights and sustainable local innovation. It will also foster discussion with global stakeholders on implementing the Digital SDGs through collaborative approaches.

Living Labs are open, user-centered innovation ecosystems that bring together citizens, governments, academia, and industry to co-create, test, and develop solutions in real-life communities.