Shaping Education and Transforming Practices

In recent years the investment in digital research infrastructures has been exponential, bringing various institutes and research centres to engage with massive digitization processes and quickly establishing digital archives and repositories for making these data available.This trend gained momentum after the pandemic, and the results of this accelerated pace are clearly visible in the significant amount of web infrastructures available worldwide.Jeremy Huggett's engaging keynote centres on the unique and delicate role of these infrastructures in present and future archaeological practice.It emphasizes the immediate and crucial need to initiate a critical discourse on the underlying factors that determine the success or failure of such technological frameworks.The discussion is timely and serves as a warning to researchers and institutions involved in building or using digital infrastructures.It encourages them to look beyond the technical aspects, and examines the political, cultural and social significance of these infrastructures within the wider society.Importantly, the keynote paper stresses that digital infrastructures should be understood as complex socio-technical frameworks involving different interrelated actors.My impression is that, so far, the limited consideration of the social aspects guiding the development and diffusion of these digital infrastructures has contributed to hindering their diffusion