At Warrior Women Networking forums we bring the community together. There is a speaker followed by a discussion and networking.

Our Guest Speaker for July is Katie Hillier. She is the Chief Digital Anthropologist and part of the founding team at LiiV an company devoted to the bringing Digital Anthropology to the world through research, academic programs and technology. As part of this mission, she leads a global partnership with UNESCO to advance the science of Digital Anthropology through higher education and research.

Traditionally, Anthropology has provided valuable insights into understanding what makes us human, but today technology is rapidly changing who we are and how we live. While Big data can show what people do online at scale, it struggles to understand why. Numbers alone can not reveal the full spectrum of human behaviors, values, and needs. But our over-reliance on big data has created enormous ethical and empathetic blind spots. Decision Makers in both private and public sectors can’t fully understand the changing digital cultures, values, and identities of humanity online when they're only looking at numbers and not the humans behind them. Critical decisions are made without proper knowledge, opportunities are missed and inequalities multiply. The world urgently needs Digital Anthropology to make data more human, and help leaders better understand the needs and experiences of people across the digital world.

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