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...

On 3-4 July 2024, I had the honor of presenting my paper titled "Digital Foundational Economy: AI, Data Democracy, and Social Innovation" at the WISERD Annual Conference, hosted by South Wales University in Cardiff. This exciting event provided an opportunity to engage with scholars and...

Thank to the grant funding achieved this year by the Learned Society of Wales to undertake '#Welsh & #Basque Cooperation' #ActionResearch project, this week I presented several preliminary findings and insights about it at Mondragon Unibertsitatea in #Bilbao. Against the backdrop of the #MoU signed between...

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...

The article entitled ‘Book Review: Smart City Citizenship’ published in the Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs in Open Access. To cite this article: Calzada, I. (2021), Book Review: Smart City Citizenship, Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs 5(1), 145-150. DOI:10.25034/ijcua.2021-v5n1-7. Abstract: Against the backdrop of the current hyperconnected and...