🌐 Call for Abstracts: AAG 2026 Annual Meeting – San Francisco, California Session: Anticipatory AI Governance in Public Administrations Worldwide: Digital Inclusion, Territorial Innovation, and Datafied Democracies📅 Deadline: October 25, 2025📍 Event: AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA (17–21 March 2026)🔗 AAG2026 Organizers & Chairs: Prof. Igor Calzada,...

On 24 September 2025, Professor Igor Calzada contributed to the Cross-Party Group on Cooperatives and Mutuals at the Senedd Research, Welsh Parliament in Cardiff. Senedd10 This intervention followed a productive morning at Cardiff University’s Social Science Research Park (SPARK/SBARC), where he worked with colleagues from WISERD and...

Prof. Dr. Igor Calzada, in collaboration with co-author Itziar Eizaguirre, has published an open-access editorial in the Springer Nature journal Discover Cities. The article, titled“Digital inclusion and Urban AI: strategic roadmapping and policy challenges”, marks a critical reflection on the evolving role of artificial intelligence...

Prof. Dr. Igor Calzada has contributed a chapter to the newly released Springer Nature volume Research and Innovation Forum 2024, edited by Anna Visvizi, Vincenzo Corvello, and Orlando Troisi. The chapter, titled "From Data-opolies to Decentralization? The AI Disruption Amid the Web3 Promiseland at Stake...

Prof. Igor Calzada has been officially appointed by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) as a Management Committee (MC) Member representing Spain in the newly launched COST Action under the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) programme. This pan-European research network focuses on...

Prof. Igor Calzada has been appointed as a Distinguished Senior Academic Fellow at the Future Government Institute, a global think-and-do tank dedicated to transforming public governance in the digital age. The Future Government Institute operates across Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, and the United...

Since January 2021, Prof. Igor Calzada has been actively contributing to the strategic and academic formalisation of research on the Basque Diaspora, in close collaboration with the Presidency – General Secretariat for External Action of the Basque Government. His work has involved both policy-oriented research...

Prof. Igor Calzada has successfully concluded the AI4SI (Artificial Intelligence for Social Innovation) project, a competitive research initiative funded by the Etorkizuna Eraikiz programme of the Strategy Department of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (DFG). Over the course of the project, Prof. Calzada led a multidisciplinary...

📢 Call for Expressions of Interest – Special Issue Contribution Prof. Igor Calzada invites to consider submitting their work to the ongoing Special Issue of the Springer Nature journal Discover Cities, titled: 🧠 Digital Inclusion & Urban AI🔗 Special Issue link This Special Issue explores the societal, institutional,...