About

FARGUS is a forward-looking initiative dedicated to interrogating, anticipating, and shaping the evolving intersections between disability, emerging technologies, and socio-technical power. Founded with the conviction that disabled people must not merely adapt to the future but actively define it, FARGUS brings analytical clarity, critical imagination, and strategic advocacy to a rapidly transforming world.

While traditional accessibility reframes exclusion as a technical or compliance challenge, FARGUS recognises that twenty-first century disability justice demands a more expansive and future-oriented lens. Artificial intelligence, data governance, automation, augmented cognition, bio-digital infrastructures, remote work platforms, algorithmic public services, and frontier technologies are producing new forms of bias, new risks of erasure, and new barriers to participation. These developments shall not be addressed effectively through remedial or reactive approaches.

FARGUS therefore positions itself as a strategic vantage point: a space where critical scholarship, policy imagination, technical understanding, and lived experience combine to anticipate emergent threats, articulate new conceptual frameworks, and steward transformative solutions.

At its core, FARGUS operates on four interlinked pillars:

1. Futures Thinking and Anticipatory Governance
We explore how technological futures shape disabled lives, and how disabled knowledge can, in turn, shape the ethical, regulatory, and design trajectories of emerging systems. Our approach moves beyond catching up with industry trends; instead, we interrogate the systemic conditions that produce inequities before they manifest.

2. Bias, Algorithms, and Digital Infrastructures
As AI becomes embedded across public and private decision-making, FARGUS examines the structural and epistemic biases that disadvantage disabled people. We engage with data architectures, machine-learning pipelines, digital identity ecosystems, and platform governance to foreground the disability lens often ignored in mainstream discourse.

3. Policy Innovation and Rights-Focused Technology Analysis
FARGUS works to craft forward-looking frameworks that integrate disability rights with digital rights, ensuring that regulatory mechanisms are fit for emerging contexts. Our work informs policymakers, advocacy networks, start-ups, technology firms, and academic institutions seeking principled guidance.

4. Thought Leadership, Public Scholarship, and Capacity Building
We develop white papers, working briefs, commentary, conceptual tools, and public interventions that translate complex technological developments into accessible, rigorous, and actionable knowledge. FARGUS aims to cultivate a new generation of thinkers who can navigate disability futures with clarity and purpose.

The initiative is led by Nilesh Singit, a  situated at the intersections of Disability Studies, law, policy, and technology critique. Drawing on decades of expertise in disability rights, combined with emerging work in algorithmic bias and AI governance, FARGUS embodies his commitment to shifting disability discourse from remedial accommodation to visionary leadership.

As the digital world accelerates, disabled people must not be positioned as afterthoughts. FARGUS exists to ensure that the futures being built today recognise, include, and are accountable to disabled lives—not by demand for charity or compliance, but through intellectual authority, strategic engagement, and the unapologetic articulation of disabled agency.

FARGUS invites collaborators, researchers, innovators, and institutions to join in this endeavour: to imagine boldly, design responsibly, and build technologies, systems, and societies that honour justice, dignity, and the complexity of disabled futures.