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21 Jul UCL University College London (UK) > Multiplicity – The Next Generation of Urban Voices

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On 21st June, 2013, I took part as a key note speaker giving a lecture about Territorial Benchmarking in the MULTIPLICITY, the next generation of urban voices. Urban applied experiences took part in this event, which was held in the University College London (UCL), Development...

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LATEST POSTS
  • Prof Calzada contributed to the 2nd International Conference in Digital Sovereignty in Oslo (Norway) on 30-31 Oct 2025
    04 November, 2025
  • Prof Calzada invited talk at Global Innovation Coop Summit 2025 at Terra Vedras (Portugal) on Data Cooperatives on 27th October
    04 November, 2025
  • Prof Calzada Launching the Springer Nature Book: Datafied Democracies & AI Economics Unplugged (2025-2026)
    16 October, 2025
  • Prof Calzada Launching In Collaboration with European Colleagues the Edward Elgar Book: Multidisciplinary Movements in AI and Generative AI: Shaping Technology for Society, Business, and Education (2025)
    13 October, 2025
  • Accepted Paper in the Journal Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (IF 2.6; CiteScore 5.0): Generative AI and the Urban AI Policy Challenges Ahead: Trustworthy for Whom?
    12 October, 2025
  • International Conference on Digital Sovereignty 2025 (ICDS2025), Oslo (Norway): Two papers has been accepted and will be presented accordingly by Prof Calzada
    11 October, 2025
  • AAG2026 Annual Meeting in San Francisco (California): Call for Abstracts/Call for Papers due to 25th October on ‘Anticipatory AI Governance’
    11 October, 2025
  • 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
    29 September, 2025
  • Prof Calzada publishes an editorial article in Open Access ‘Digital Inclusion & Urban AI’ in Springer Nature journal Discover Cities
    04 September, 2025
  • Prof Calzada publishes a chapter From Data-opolies to Decentralization? in Springer Nature volume
    28 July, 2025
  • Prof Igor Calzada Appointed as Spain’s Management Committee Member for European COST Action on Multilingualism, Social Transformation & Generative AI
    27 July, 2025
  • Prof Igor Calzada appointed as Distinguished Senior Academic Fellow at the Future Government Institute
    27 July, 2025
  • Researching the Basque e-Diaspora: From Fieldwork to Scientific Publications and Policy Impact
    27 July, 2025
  • Strategic Roadmap Delivered: Finalising the AI4SI Project under the Etorkizuna Eraikiz Programme by the Province Council of Gipuzkoa in March 2025
    27 July, 2025
  • Prof Calzada directed and led Digital Inclusion & GenAI International Summer School in Donostia on 15-16 July 2025
    27 July, 2025
  • Prof Calzada has received the Best Paper Award at Rii2025, held at the UOC in Barcelona in April 2025
    27 July, 2025
  • Prof Calzada has contributed to Data Cooperative report by Liberty Project and Decentralization Research Centre by participating at Georgetown University workshop in Washington DC on 1-2 April 2025
    27 July, 2025
  • Prof Calzada Lecturing Urban Economics at the Faculty of Economics at the University of the Basque Country in March 2025, in Sarriko Faculty in Bilbao
    27 July, 2025
  • Horizon Europe ‘Trustworthy AI’ ENFIELD succesfully culminated by Prof Calzada in March 2025 in Budapest (Hungary)
    27 July, 2025
  • Prof Calzada’s article ‘Trustworthy AI for Whom? GenAI Detection Techniques of Trust Through Decentralized Web3 Ecosystems’ has been accepted for publication stemming from his Horizon Europe ENFIELD project
    01 March, 2025
  • Prof Calzada published the article ‘(Libertarian) decentralised Web3 map: in search of a post-Westphalian territory’ in the EUI Global Governance Programme and ERC BlockchainGov
    26 February, 2025
  • Prof Calzada delivered an Invited Keynote at the Statutory/Chartered Parliament of Navarre on the Impact of Emerging (GenAI) and Decentralized (Blockchain) Techs for Citizenship, Society, and Industry in the Frame of LORAFNA Organic Law’s Renewal Process
    19 February, 2025
  • Edward Elgar Book on ‘Multidisciplinary Movements in AI and Generative AI: Society, Business, Education’: Forthcoming, August 2025
    15 February, 2025
  • Chairing Workshop Horizon Europe ENFIELD: Trustworthy AI for Whom? Budapest (Hungary), 14th February 2025
    08 February, 2025
  • Prof Calzada’s Invited Professorship since 2020 at Mondragon University, Global Digital Humanities by Delivering Digital Rights & Digital Citizenship Module in February 2025
    05 February, 2025
  • Prof Calzada Opens Up AI Strategic Roundtable with Senior Officials from Government of the Sultanate of Oman, Middle East
    04 February, 2025
  • Prof Calzada, Editor of Special Issue on GenAI & UrbanAI in the journal Transforming Government: People, Process, and Policy (TGPPP)
    03 February, 2025
  • Professor Calzada appointed Editor in Cambridge University Press, Data & Policy Journal
    25 January, 2025
  • Prof Calzada contributed to a Remarkable Policy Report on ‘Data Cooperatives’ by Liberty Project and Decentralization Research Centre in North America
    23 January, 2025
  • Prof Calzada Invited to Preliminary Foundational Discussions in December 2024 on AIActionSummit2025 Between Paris and Bangalore
    20 January, 2025
  • Prof Calzada has been appointed Senior Scientific Advisor for the SenseNet project on ‘Open Science & Data Cooperatives’ funded by Astera Institute based in Silicon Valley (California, USA)
    18 January, 2025
  • Prof Calzada has been selected as Senior Researcher in TrustworthyAI by the European Commission, Horizon Europe ENFIELD lighthouse project for the period 2024-2025 to collaborate with Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) (Hungary, EU)
    18 January, 2025
  • Prof Calzada’s project AI4SI ‘AI for Social Impact in Gipuzkoa Historic Territory’ receives the highest rank and thus funds for 2024-2025 in the Policy Exploration Call of the Province Council of Gipuzkoa, Etorkizuna Eraikiz 2024 (Basque Country, Spain)
    18 January, 2025
  • Invited Professorship in Warsaw (Poland) in Public Policy, TechnoPolitics, and Digital Rights/Citizenship at Warsaw School of Economics SGH in November-December 2024
    31 October, 2024
  • Invited Keynote Speaker in Budapest (Hungary) on 13th November 2024 at WIRE2024 (Week of Innovative Regions in Europe) and as Invited Professor and PI of Horizon Europe Enfield project at BME in November 2024
    31 October, 2024
  • Selected Evaluator/Expert of the European Commission/Research Executive Agency in Brussels
    31 October, 2024
  • Article published in the journal Sustainability: Artificial Intelligence for Social Innovation: Beyond the Noise of Algorithms and Datafication
    06 October, 2024
  • Article published in the journal Future Internet: Decentralized Web3 Reshaping Internet Governance: Towards the Emergence of New Forms of Nation-Statehood?
    05 October, 2024
  • SOAM Network Sovereignties Residence Programme: May-October 2024. Selected Resident. Ammersee (Germany). https://soam.earth/work/SOAM
    18 September, 2024
  • Kick-off Project: EC-HorizonEurope-ENFIELD. Democracy in the Age of Algorithm: Enhancing Transparency and Trust in AIGenerated Content through Innovative Detection Techniques” SGA: oc1-2024-TES-01 / GA: 101120657.
    13 September, 2024
  • Paper presented at Data Power Conference, Graz (Austria) & Bangalore (India), 4-6 September: Data-In-Flux: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Data On Move.Paper presented at Data Power Conference, Graz (Austria) & Bangalore (India), 4-6 September
    06 September, 2024
  • Scientific Direction of the Summer School AI4SI 2024: 2-3 September. Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain)
    03 September, 2024
  • Invited paper presented at the RGS-IBS Annual Meeting, Panel Digital Territories. London (UK), 27-30 August: PostWestphalian Datafied Network States.
    30 August, 2024
  • Paper presented at WISERD Annual Conference 2024, South Wales University, Cardiff (UK), 3-4 July 2024: ‘Digital Foundational Economy: AI, Data Democracy, and Social Innovation’
    03 July, 2024
  • Kindly Invited by Dr. Dafydd Huw Rees: Bridging Public Spheres in Wales and the Basque Country: Creating Public Spheres Workshop. Canolfan Richard Price Centre, Cardiff University, Aberdare Hall (UK), 2 July 2024
    02 July, 2024
  • Exploring Coordi-Nations and New Network Sovereignties: Research Workshop and Public Conference. Healdsburg, California (USA), 17-27 June 2024
    27 June, 2024
  • Paper Presented at the 2024 Equitable Tech Summit, National Press Club, Washington DC (USA), 6 June 2024. Equitable Tech: Navigating AI, Blockchain, and Data Sovereignty
    06 June, 2024
  • Invited Paper Presented at the 4th International Conference on Nationalism. Bilbao (Spain), 24 May 2024. ‘What is an Algorithmic Nation? Sovereignties Under Scrutiny’
    24 May, 2024
  • Invited paper presented at the Research & Innovation Forum 2024. Ravello (Italy), 10-12 April 2024: Democratic Erosion of Data-Opolies Amid Web3 and AI Realms
    09 April, 2024
  • Invited talk at VIII World Congress of Basque Communities held by Basque Government, Presidency, External Affairs’ General Secretary in St Sebastian on 20th December 2023
    01 January, 2024
  • Invited talk at Mondragon University’s UniverCity Symposium around Welsh & Basque Cooperation on 14th December 2023
    01 January, 2024
  • Published peer-reviewed article in the journal Globalizations (IF 2.5/CiteScore 4.7)
    11 October, 2023
  • Published peer-reviewed article in the journal Futures (IF 3.0/CiteScore 6.3)
    04 October, 2023
  • Invited Speaker at Global Innovation Coop Summit, 29 Sept., Montreal (Canada)
    16 September, 2023
  • Invited Speaker at Workshop: New Tools for the Digital Society, 29 Sept., Philipps Universität Marburg (Germany)
    13 September, 2023
  • Invited Speaker at Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum, 13th Sept., London (UK)
    13 September, 2023
  • Invited Speaker at the University of Salamanca (Spain) on ‘Smart City Citizenship: AI from a Transdisciplinary Social Science Perspective’, 11th Sept., Salamanca (Spain)
    11 September, 2023
  • ‘Towards an Algorithmic Nation? Dilemmas Around Synthetic Citizenship in Northern Ireland’ paper delivered at The Synthetic City: Potential, Politics, and Everyday Life Conference, 6-7 Sept. 2023, at Dublin City University (Ireland)
    06 September, 2023
  • Invited Speaker at Stanford University, The Science of Blockchain Conference 2023 (SBC23)/ Stanford DAO Workshop, 31th August, Palo Alto – California (USA)
    31 August, 2023
  • Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence via US-UK Fulbright Commission: Successfully culminated
    20 February, 2023
LATEST POSTS
  • Prof Calzada contributed to the 2nd International Conference in Digital Sovereignty in Oslo (Norway) on 30-31 Oct 2025

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada invited talk at Global Innovation Coop Summit 2025 at Terra Vedras (Portugal) on Data Cooperatives on 27th October

    Posted in home, Projects by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada Launching the Springer Nature Book: Datafied Democracies & AI Economics Unplugged (2025-2026)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada Launching In Collaboration with European Colleagues the Edward Elgar Book: Multidisciplinary Movements in AI and Generative AI: Shaping Technology for Society, Business, and Education (2025)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Accepted Paper in the Journal Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy (IF 2.6; CiteScore 5.0): Generative AI and the Urban AI Policy Challenges Ahead: Trustworthy for Whom?

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • International Conference on Digital Sovereignty 2025 (ICDS2025), Oslo (Norway): Two papers has been accepted and will be presented accordingly by Prof Calzada

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • AAG2026 Annual Meeting in San Francisco (California): Call for Abstracts/Call for Papers due to 25th October on ‘Anticipatory AI Governance’

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • 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

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada publishes an editorial article in Open Access ‘Digital Inclusion & Urban AI’ in Springer Nature journal Discover Cities

    Posted in home, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada publishes a chapter From Data-opolies to Decentralization? in Springer Nature volume

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Igor Calzada Appointed as Spain’s Management Committee Member for European COST Action on Multilingualism, Social Transformation & Generative AI

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Igor Calzada appointed as Distinguished Senior Academic Fellow at the Future Government Institute

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Researching the Basque e-Diaspora: From Fieldwork to Scientific Publications and Policy Impact

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Strategic Roadmap Delivered: Finalising the AI4SI Project under the Etorkizuna Eraikiz Programme by the Province Council of Gipuzkoa in March 2025

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada directed and led Digital Inclusion & GenAI International Summer School in Donostia on 15-16 July 2025

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada has received the Best Paper Award at Rii2025, held at the UOC in Barcelona in April 2025

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada has contributed to Data Cooperative report by Liberty Project and Decentralization Research Centre by participating at Georgetown University workshop in Washington DC on 1-2 April 2025

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada Lecturing Urban Economics at the Faculty of Economics at the University of the Basque Country in March 2025, in Sarriko Faculty in Bilbao

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Horizon Europe ‘Trustworthy AI’ ENFIELD succesfully culminated by Prof Calzada in March 2025 in Budapest (Hungary)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada’s article ‘Trustworthy AI for Whom? GenAI Detection Techniques of Trust Through Decentralized Web3 Ecosystems’ has been accepted for publication stemming from his Horizon Europe ENFIELD project

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada published the article ‘(Libertarian) decentralised Web3 map: in search of a post-Westphalian territory’ in the EUI Global Governance Programme and ERC BlockchainGov

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada delivered an Invited Keynote at the Statutory/Chartered Parliament of Navarre on the Impact of Emerging (GenAI) and Decentralized (Blockchain) Techs for Citizenship, Society, and Industry in the Frame of LORAFNA Organic Law’s Renewal Process

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Edward Elgar Book on ‘Multidisciplinary Movements in AI and Generative AI: Society, Business, Education’: Forthcoming, August 2025

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications, Sin categoría by icalzada
  • Chairing Workshop Horizon Europe ENFIELD: Trustworthy AI for Whom? Budapest (Hungary), 14th February 2025

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada’s Invited Professorship since 2020 at Mondragon University, Global Digital Humanities by Delivering Digital Rights & Digital Citizenship Module in February 2025

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada Opens Up AI Strategic Roundtable with Senior Officials from Government of the Sultanate of Oman, Middle East

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada, Editor of Special Issue on GenAI & UrbanAI in the journal Transforming Government: People, Process, and Policy (TGPPP)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Professor Calzada appointed Editor in Cambridge University Press, Data & Policy Journal

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada contributed to a Remarkable Policy Report on ‘Data Cooperatives’ by Liberty Project and Decentralization Research Centre in North America

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada Invited to Preliminary Foundational Discussions in December 2024 on AIActionSummit2025 Between Paris and Bangalore

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada has been appointed Senior Scientific Advisor for the SenseNet project on ‘Open Science & Data Cooperatives’ funded by Astera Institute based in Silicon Valley (California, USA)

    Posted in home, Projects by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada has been selected as Senior Researcher in TrustworthyAI by the European Commission, Horizon Europe ENFIELD lighthouse project for the period 2024-2025 to collaborate with Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) (Hungary, EU)

    Posted in home, Projects by icalzada
  • Prof Calzada’s project AI4SI ‘AI for Social Impact in Gipuzkoa Historic Territory’ receives the highest rank and thus funds for 2024-2025 in the Policy Exploration Call of the Province Council of Gipuzkoa, Etorkizuna Eraikiz 2024 (Basque Country, Spain)

    Posted in home, Projects by icalzada
  • Invited Professorship in Warsaw (Poland) in Public Policy, TechnoPolitics, and Digital Rights/Citizenship at Warsaw School of Economics SGH in November-December 2024

    Posted in home, Projects by icalzada
  • Invited Keynote Speaker in Budapest (Hungary) on 13th November 2024 at WIRE2024 (Week of Innovative Regions in Europe) and as Invited Professor and PI of Horizon Europe Enfield project at BME in November 2024

    Posted in home, Projects by icalzada
  • Selected Evaluator/Expert of the European Commission/Research Executive Agency in Brussels

    Posted in home, Projects by icalzada
  • Article published in the journal Sustainability: Artificial Intelligence for Social Innovation: Beyond the Noise of Algorithms and Datafication

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Article published in the journal Future Internet: Decentralized Web3 Reshaping Internet Governance: Towards the Emergence of New Forms of Nation-Statehood?

    Posted in home, Publications by icalzada
  • SOAM Network Sovereignties Residence Programme: May-October 2024. Selected Resident. Ammersee (Germany). https://soam.earth/work/SOAM

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Kick-off Project: EC-HorizonEurope-ENFIELD. Democracy in the Age of Algorithm: Enhancing Transparency and Trust in AIGenerated Content through Innovative Detection Techniques” SGA: oc1-2024-TES-01 / GA: 101120657.

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Paper presented at Data Power Conference, Graz (Austria) & Bangalore (India), 4-6 September: Data-In-Flux: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges in the Study of Data On Move.Paper presented at Data Power Conference, Graz (Austria) & Bangalore (India), 4-6 September

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Scientific Direction of the Summer School AI4SI 2024: 2-3 September. Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Invited paper presented at the RGS-IBS Annual Meeting, Panel Digital Territories. London (UK), 27-30 August: PostWestphalian Datafied Network States.

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Paper presented at WISERD Annual Conference 2024, South Wales University, Cardiff (UK), 3-4 July 2024: ‘Digital Foundational Economy: AI, Data Democracy, and Social Innovation’

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Kindly Invited by Dr. Dafydd Huw Rees: Bridging Public Spheres in Wales and the Basque Country: Creating Public Spheres Workshop. Canolfan Richard Price Centre, Cardiff University, Aberdare Hall (UK), 2 July 2024

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Exploring Coordi-Nations and New Network Sovereignties: Research Workshop and Public Conference. Healdsburg, California (USA), 17-27 June 2024

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Paper Presented at the 2024 Equitable Tech Summit, National Press Club, Washington DC (USA), 6 June 2024. Equitable Tech: Navigating AI, Blockchain, and Data Sovereignty

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Invited Paper Presented at the 4th International Conference on Nationalism. Bilbao (Spain), 24 May 2024. ‘What is an Algorithmic Nation? Sovereignties Under Scrutiny’

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Invited paper presented at the Research & Innovation Forum 2024. Ravello (Italy), 10-12 April 2024: Democratic Erosion of Data-Opolies Amid Web3 and AI Realms

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Invited talk at VIII World Congress of Basque Communities held by Basque Government, Presidency, External Affairs’ General Secretary in St Sebastian on 20th December 2023

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Invited talk at Mondragon University’s UniverCity Symposium around Welsh & Basque Cooperation on 14th December 2023

    Posted in home, Projects by icalzada
  • Published peer-reviewed article in the journal Globalizations (IF 2.5/CiteScore 4.7)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Published peer-reviewed article in the journal Futures (IF 3.0/CiteScore 6.3)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Invited Speaker at Global Innovation Coop Summit, 29 Sept., Montreal (Canada)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Invited Speaker at Workshop: New Tools for the Digital Society, 29 Sept., Philipps Universität Marburg (Germany)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Invited Speaker at Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum, 13th Sept., London (UK)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Invited Speaker at the University of Salamanca (Spain) on ‘Smart City Citizenship: AI from a Transdisciplinary Social Science Perspective’, 11th Sept., Salamanca (Spain)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • ‘Towards an Algorithmic Nation? Dilemmas Around Synthetic Citizenship in Northern Ireland’ paper delivered at The Synthetic City: Potential, Politics, and Everyday Life Conference, 6-7 Sept. 2023, at Dublin City University (Ireland)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Invited Speaker at Stanford University, The Science of Blockchain Conference 2023 (SBC23)/ Stanford DAO Workshop, 31th August, Palo Alto – California (USA)

    Posted in home, Projects, Publications by icalzada
  • Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence via US-UK Fulbright Commission: Successfully culminated

    Posted in home, Projects by icalzada
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