Riccardo Pozzo is chair professor of History of Philosophy at Tor Vergata University of Rome, Department of Literary, Philosophical and Art History Studies, where he teaches History of Chinese Philosophy and Research Policy. His research focuses on spiritual humanism for reflection and inclusion as social processes that shape our understanding of what constitutes cultural innovation, a new category of innovation economics, of which he has made the unprecedented attempt of indicating dimensions, processes and outcomes, while showing their operationalization in empirical case studies. Graduated from the State University of Milan in 1983, he completed his education in Germany – Dr.phil. at the University of Saarland in 1988 and Habilitation at the University of Trier in 1995. In 1996 he was appointed at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. In 2003 the University of Verona called him back to Italy as chair of the History of Philosophy. From 2009 to 2012 he directed the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas of the National Research Council of Italy. From 2012 to 2017, when he was head of the Department of Human and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage of the National Research Council, he implemented Italy’s participation in the European research infrastructures for social and cultural innovation CESSDA, CLARIN, DARIAH, EHRI, ERIHS, ESS, OPERAS, RESILIENCE and SHARE. Titular member of the Institut International de Philosophie, ordinary member of the Academia Europaea, ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, and overseas member of the International Confucian Association. In 2014 he was awarded the Order of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany and in 2017 he was first-cohort fellow of the Polish Institute of Advanced Studies. Pozzo’s lines of research are in Philosophy, China Studies, and Science and Technology Studies.

Dr. Nanjala Nyabola is a writer and researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on the intersection between technology, media, and society. She holds a BA in African Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham; an MSc in African Studies and an MSc in Forced Migration, both from the University of Oxford which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar; as well as a JD from Harvard Law School and a PhD from King’s College London. She has held numerous research associate positions including with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), and other institutions, while also working as a research lead for several projects on human rights broadly and digital rights specifically around the world. She is a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and the British Institute for East Africa (BIEA) in Nairobi. Nyabola also writes commentary for publications like The Nation, Al Jazeera, The Boston Review and others. She is the author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (Zed Books, 2018) and Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move (Hurst Books, 2020) as well as a co-editor and contributor to numerous edited collections.