Speaker: Narayana Mandaleeka

Title/Affiliation: Chair of IEEE Hyderabad Section and Vice-Chair of IEEE SA DIITA (Dignity, Identity, Inclusion, Trust, and Agency)

Type: Webinar

Date/Time: December 10, 2025/6:30 pm IST/9 am ET/6 am PT

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Organizer: IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology

Abstract: As digital technologies increasingly mediate human life and shape societal priorities, ethical frameworks must evolve beyond compliance toward inclusion, trust, and long-term sustainability. This talk introduces the DIITA framework — Dignity, Identity, Inclusion, Trust, and Agency — as an emerging IEEE initiative guiding responsible technology governance. It explores how these values can translate into measurable design, deployment, and policy practices across AI, data systems, and digital infrastructures.

Drawing from recent work on Technology Governance for a Living Planet, the talk expands DIITA from a human-centered ethics model to a planetary inclusion framework, recognizing that technology’s social impact is inseparable from its ecological footprint. It highlights real-world examples, from digital inclusion initiatives and ethical AI governance to green innovation, demonstrating how DIITA can help achieve Strong Sustainability by Design (IEEE Planet Positive 2030).

Through this perspective, the session invites educators, researchers, and technologists to view ethical technology not merely as a regulatory duty, but as a creative and systemic responsibility — one that safeguards human dignity, fosters trust, and sustains the living systems that enable our digital future.

Speaker: Narayana Mandaleeka is Chair of IEEE Hyderabad Section and Vice-Chair of IEEE SA DIITA (Dignity, Identity, Inclusion, Trust, and Agency). An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), he retired as Vice President and Chief Scientist at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), where he led initiatives in systems engineering, cybernetics, and innovation management. With over three decades of experience in software delivery, research, and competence development, he brings a systems-thinking perspective to ethical technology, governance, and sustainability. His recent work, Technology Governance for a Living Planet, integrates human values, ecological responsibility, and design for inclusion.