Agana-Nsiire Agana

PhD, AFHEA

writer + philosopher + theologian of the digital

About

I am an author and academic interested in the intersection of theology, philosophy, and digital culture. I obtained my PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2024. My research explored personhood in digital culture from the perspective of philosophical theology. My future research examines epistemic foundations of ongoing artificial intelligence research in philosophy, theology, and ethics. I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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My Recent Work

Workshops and Seminars

Digital Frontiers

This workshop distills insights from cutting edge work in the tech industry, together with the latest research in digital culture from philosophy, the digital humanities, and the social sciences. How should we understand, use, and live with new digital tools? How will digital cultures reshape the future of humanity and the planet? This interactive workshop delves deep into these and other urgent questions, and provides a clear roadmap for harnessing the potentials of new digital tools in business, healthcare, and the arts, avoid the pitfalls, and navigate the challenges of the new digital future.

Useful for: policy organisations, schools, churches, civil society organisations.

Multicultural AI

AI is largely developed in the Western world, and inherits Western philosophical ideas. Blending the latest research with indigenous knowledge systems, this seminar introduces participants to a multicultural approach to AI ethics that paves the way for better global cooperation on safe, ethical, and responsible AI. It draws on Western, African, Asian, and other cultural philosophies both ancient and modern, to envision a new paradigm of AI research and development fit for the entire planet.

Useful for: policy bodies, universities, non-governmental organisation, and other civil society bodies.

Video Presentations

Digitality as a Hermeneutic

Quasi-Physicalism in African Philosophy

"Life is lived forwards but understood backwards." - Kierkegaard

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Contact

nsiire@gmail.com