Mission & Vision

Our Mission

FARGUS exists to confront and reshape the technological landscapes that define the lives, rights, and futures of disabled people. We work to expose, analyse, and dismantle the structural, algorithmic, and institutional biases embedded across digital systems, while cultivating new modes of thinking that centre disabled knowledge, agency, and imagination.
Our mission is to build a world in which technologies, policies, and governance systems recognise disabled persons not as statistical outliers but as integral participants in social, civic, and digital life.

We pursue this mission by:

• Conducting advanced research on technoableism, algorithmic bias, and disability futures;
  
  

• Developing critical frameworks such as The Bias Pipeline that make visible the hidden mechanisms of exclusion;
  
  

• Advising governments, corporations, and start-ups on the design of equitable socio-technical systems;
  
  

• Championing rights-based approaches to AI, data governance, and digital innovation;
  
  

• Supporting disabled leaders, thinkers, and communities to shape the conversations and infrastructures that govern their lives.
  
  

Our mission is rooted in a commitment to justice, intellectual rigour, interdisciplinary collaboration, and the belief that disability is a site of knowledge, creativity, and futurity—not a constraint.

Our Vision

We envision an inclusive and just future where disabled people are central to the design, governance, and ethics of emerging technologies. This future does not treat accessibility as an afterthought or compliance task, but recognises it as foundational to democratic institutions, equitable innovation, and sustainable digital development.

In this future:

• AI systems are built with disabled people, drawing from their experiences and expertise;
  
  

• Institutions adopt anticipatory, rights-driven governance frameworks that prevent harm before it occurs;
  
  

• Digital technologies reflect the diversity of human minds, bodies, and ways of being;
  
  

• The study of technoableism becomes a critical field shaping public policy, corporate accountability, and global agendas;
  
  

• Disability is understood not merely as a protected category but as a political, cultural, and epistemic force that expands what society imagines possible.
  
  

Our vision is global in outlook and grounded in the belief that disabled-led innovation shall define the next chapter of digital rights and socio-technical governance.

What Guides Us

• Disability Justice
  We centre disabled voices, histories, and futures as essential to ethical governance.

• Critical Foresight
  We study what lies ahead—algorithmic governance, autonomous systems, biometric decision-making—to anticipate risks and reimagine possibilities.

• Interdisciplinary Excellence
  Our work integrates disability studies, public policy, law, technology ethics, data sciences, and urban governance.

• Transformative Impact
  We aim not to merely critique existing systems, but to build the structures, narratives, and alliances required to change them.

• International Orientation
  We engage with global debates, standards, and regulatory frameworks to ensure that disability perspectives shape international agendas and emerging norms.

Why It Matters

As AI becomes embedded in welfare administration, healthcare, education, hiring, identification, and civic infrastructures, the risks to disabled people multiply. Traditional accessibility approaches cannot meet the complexity of this moment. What is needed is a forward-looking, analytical, and rights-driven vision—one that understands technology not only as a tool but as an ecosystem that governs opportunities, freedoms, and lives.

FARGUS exists to articulate that vision and to realise it through research, advocacy, capacity building, and strategic partnership.