29 Sep Prof Calzada contributes to the Senedd Welsh Parliament on ‘Co-operation: Wales & the Basque Country’ with focus on Data Cooperatives and AI for the Public Good
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...
15 Nov Teaching Seminar about ‘Data Co-operatives through Data Sovereignty: Towards Digital Foundational Economy?’, WISERD, Cardiff University (UK) (30/11/2021)
Presented by Igor Calzada This presentation is based on Dr Calzada’s recently published paper ‘Data Cooperatives through Data Sovereignty’* Highlights: 1. Data are not the oil of the Twenty-First Century; they are people. 2. Stemming from a recent published paper*, this seminar sheds light on two intertwined technopolitical notions...
16 Oct Article entitled ‘The Right to Have Digital Rights in Smart Cities’ published in the journal Sustainability
To cite this article: Calzada, I. (2021), The Right to Have Digital Rights in Smart Cities. Sustainability 13(20), 11438. DOI:10.3390/su132011438. Special Issue “Social Innovation in Sustainable Urban Development”. ...
09 Oct Article entitled ‘Platform and Data Co-operatives Amidst European Pandemic Citizenship’ published in the journal Sustainability
The article entitled 'Platform and Data Co-operatives Amidst European Pandemic Citizenship' published in the journal Sustainability in Open Access. ...
06 Oct Article entitled ‘Democratising Smart Cities? Penta-Helix Multistakeholder Social Innovation Framework’ published in the journal Smart Cities
Article entitled ‘Democratising Smart Cities? Penta-Helix Multistakeholder Social Innovation Framework’ published in the journal Smart Cities...
08 Sep Article entitled ‘Replicating Smart Cities: The City-to-City Learning Programme in the Replicate EC-H2020-SCC Project’ published in the journal Smart Cities
Article entitled 'Replicating Smart Cities: The City-to-City Learning Programme in the Replicate EC-H2020-SCC Project' published in Smart Cities journal...
08 Apr Article entitled ‘The Role of Social Movements in the Social Innovation (SI): Euskaraldia, as a Digital Panopticon’ being published in the journal BAT in press by 13th July 2020
Dr Calzada's article entitled 'The Role of Social Movements in the Social Innovation (SI): Euskaraldia, as a Digital Panopticon' being published in the journal BAT....
23 Mar Article entitled ‘Data Ecosystems for Protecting European Citizens’ Digital Rights’ published in the journal Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (TGPPP)
Dr Calzada, has led and co-authored the article entitled 'Data Ecosystems for Protecting European Citizens' Digital Rights' in the journal TGPPP....