Digital Infrastructure & Society Consultants (DISC) is a research and educational consultancy focused on expanding social awareness and multi-stakeholder engagement with digital infrastructures. Based on site-visits and community outreach, we advance understandings of the social impacts of digital infrastructures and provide recommendations for appropriate industry and community engagement and exchange. We offer research, education, and outreach services focused on: siting of installations; stakeholder mediation; and analysis of socio-economic and spatial planning impacts. 

Our team is invested in making stakeholders aware and accountable to each other, identifying impacted communities and their needs, and highlighting how infrastructure initiatives affect local contexts. We work directly with diverse communities, organizations (such as regulatory and advocacy groups), and infrastructure owners and operators. We function as infrastructure intermediaries, operating between industry, government agencies, universities, and communities to help improve digital infrastructure for all stakeholders.

Our speciality is to serve as a liaison between parties, mitigate costly legal action, enhance infrastructure siting and use in communities. We undertake this work in multiple modes, including: educational workshops; site-specific evaluations; expert analysis and testimony; meeting facilitation, and research publications, reports, and white papers. To conduct our research we use mixed methods, including interviews and focus groups; geospatial analysis and mapping; photography and video; trade analysis; and archival research.