Unfolding

Unfolding creates space for people to learn about emerging digital technologies, and explore how to think about their impacts and opportunities. Keeping up with advances in computing and digital technology is difficult and time consuming, yet leaders across all sectors - public, private, voluntary and academic - are now frequently required to pursue strategies and make decisions in which digital technologies play a crucial role. Added to which, these technologies often interact with each other in complex ways, and produce unintended, often poorly understood, downstream effects and burdens which have to be accounted for. And even if a CIO, or other leader, understands enough to set a good direction, they are often isolated and unable to conduct conversations with fellow senior managers or staff with enough common understanding of the issues - there is a collective lack of language and conceptual knowledge that prevents clear and aligned decision-making, and the ability to carry things out. This is the challenge that Unfolding works hard to address.