Algorithmic Futures Policy Lab
Workshop 3

Water Operations for Uncertain Futures 2023

Canberra, 7-9 June 2023

The workshop brought together people working on water operations in research, government and industry for an interdisciplinary, futures-oriented exploration of water management. Participants also included international experts on both water operations and participatory processes to support future water management.  For details, please visit:

WOUF23 page
workshop 2

Human-Machine Collaboration in a changing world 2022

Paris / hybrid: 1-2 December

This workshop focused on the challenges and opportunities collaborative systems pose for technological development and policy design. For more details, please visit:

HMC22 page
workshop 1

Social Responsibility of Algorithms 2022

Social Responsibility of Algorithms 2022 (SRA22) was held virtually on 13-17 June 2022 (UTC).

SRA22 was the third workshop in the SRA series, and focused on algorithmic fairness, explicability / interpretability, trust, privacy, and decision autonomy, with the aim of identifying mutually influential challenges and opportunities for technology and policy-development in EU and Australia.

You can find videos and abstracts from SRA22 linked from our program page:

SRA22 program page
With the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

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About Algorithmic Futures Policy Lab

The Algorithmic Futures Policy Lab (AFPL) aimed to catalyse the work needed to successfully design technology and policy for an uncertain future. The AFPL team created workshop experiences in which participants explored what responsible algorithmic development and policy-making might look like in light of future global socio-economic and environmental uncertainties, with a specific focus on relevant upcoming governance challenges and opportunities in the European Union and Australia.

The Lab series included three workshops:

  • Social Responsibility of Algorithms (SRA22) focused on algorithmic fairness, explicability/interpretability, trust, privacy, and decision autonomy, with the aim of identifying mutually influential challenges and opportunities for technology and policy-development in EU and Australia.
  • Human-Machine Collaboration in a changing world (HMC22) focused on the challenges and opportunities collaborative systems pose for technological development and policy design.
  • Water Operations for for Uncertain futures (WOUF23) explored challenges presented to technological systems by socio-economic and climate change, with the aim of informing how to influence the robustness of these systems through policy creation.

The workshops were free for invited participants, and represented a collaboration between ANU Centre for European Studies, ANU School of Cybernetics, ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society, DIMACS at Rutgers University, CNRS LAMSADE, University of Canberra, EnsadLab, laboratory of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs – PSL University, the ANU Institute for Water Futures, and One Basin CRC.

For SRA22, eight podcast episodes were made in support of the workshop. Listen in here:

  • Episode 1: Sputnik, Revolutionaries, and Algorithmic Systems, with Fred Roberts and Alexis Tsoukiás
  • Episode 2: An ocean of data, with Lyndon Llewellyn from The Australian Institute of Marine Science
  • Episode 3: Public trust and accountability in the digital age, with Pia Andrews
  • Episode 4: Banking pasts and futures, with Dan Jermyn of Commonwealth Bank
  • Episode 5: Artificial intelligence policy approaches in Australia and the European Union, with Katherine Daniell and Flynn Shaw
  • Episode 6: Could COVID-19 influence our technological futures?
  • Episode 7: The future of water is digital, with Sam Yenamandra from Murrumbidgee Irrigation
  • Episode 8: A look back, a look forward: Podcasting as a medium for collaboration and education, and a glimpse at the future of the Algorithmic Futures Podcast

Organising committee for SRA22:

  • Katherine Daniell (School of Cybernetics / Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University)
  • Joseph Guillaume (Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University)
  • Fred Roberts (DIMACS, Rutgers University)
  • Alexis Tsoukiás (CNRS LAMSADE)
  • Elizabeth Williams (School of Cybernetics, Australian National University)
  • Kathy Reid (School of Cybernetics, Australian National University)

Organising committee for HMC22:

  • Katherine Daniell (ANU)
  • Joseph Guillaume (ANU)
  • Damith Herath (University of Canberra)
  • Fred Roberts (DIMACS, Rutgers)
  • Alexis Tsoukiás (CNRS LAMSADE)
  • Elizabeth Williams (ANU)
  • Xuanying Zhu (ANU)
  • Sarra Tajouri (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, CNRS LAMSADE)
  • Nicolas Fayard ( (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, CNRS LAMSADE)
  • Lorenn Ruster (ANU)
  • Myrna Kennedy (ANU)
  • Kathy Reid (ANU)
  • Samuel Bianchini (EnsadLab)

Organising committee for WOUF23:

  • Natasha Harvey (ANU)
  • Joseph Guillaume (ANU, OneBasin CRC)
  • Katherine Daniell (ANU)
  • Emma Richardson (ANU)