Fellow's Profile
Willow Williams
Fellow's Profile
Willow Williams
Making the Invisible Visible: Teaching Children How Digital Infrastructure Powers Their Lives
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Building public understanding of the physical infrastructure behind AI and digital life
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2026
- Supported by
- Locality
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London
Contact
Biography
I am the founder of ThreadPoint, an infrastructure literacy initiative spanning education, community programmes, research and children’s publishing. I am also the author of Where the Internet Goes to Sleep, a children’s book that introduces young readers to data centres and the physical infrastructure behind digital life.
My work focuses on infrastructure literacy: helping children, families and communities understand the systems that power the internet, cloud computing and AI.
Through my Churchill Fellowship, I will explore how selected countries are strengthening public understanding of digital infrastructure, particularly as data centres become more closely linked to AI, education, healthcare, energy, public services and everyday life.
I am interested in how infrastructure literacy can strengthen digital inclusion, support the computing curriculum, widen access to STEM for girls and underrepresented young people, and create clearer pathways into future-facing careers.
My motivation comes from working in the built environment and data centre sector, and recognising that the infrastructure shaping modern life often remains invisible to the communities around it.
I hope to bring back practical insights that help UK communities, schools, policymakers and industry move from engagement to understanding – building public understanding alongside infrastructure
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
