An alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective.
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Adoption of opaque governance AI-agents by peripheral governments enables new forms of on-shoring governance by central govts. They can be a key vector for the emergence of new empires.
An essay I published @PopuliBot in Feb cautioning about this trend-> botpopuli.net/digital-govern…
Interface power -> Governments are entering the grayzone...and aren't disclosing how the LLM processing is developed or by whom.
More on the figure in a recent paper co-authored with Manuel Castells-> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Is Big Tech creating a feudal order, or intensifying capitalism? Taking a Global South perspective, our essay of the week argues that the technofeudalism thesis misreads the imperial hierarchies produced by platform power.
By @LakraRudraksh in @PopuliBot
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pioneering official recognition of cooperativism by 🇧🇷STATE&presents a detailed action plan ..
The future economy: Cooperatives/co-op model at its core. "Companies with a boss" will be viewed the same way we view feudal estates today.
@IsabellaMWeber @sunraysunray @linamkhan
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A familiar story about cryptocurrencies is that they emerged under the promise of financial emancipation. Crypto-assets and blockchain technologies were ... botpopuli.net/the-crypto-sta… via @PopuliBot
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In my latest article, "Navigating Digital Sovereignty in the Era of Great Power Rivalry", I argue for a Commons-Led Digital Stack — a compelling need for reimagining of DPI that expands its scope to include compute and cloud resources.
botpopuli.net/navigating-dig… via @PopuliBot
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🌎 Desde Paraguay y con una mirada desde países perisféricos, exploramos cómo la tecnología puede influir en la democracia y qué podemos hacer al respecto.
💡 Léelo completo en español aquí 🔗 tedic.org/los-desafios-de-la…
Our latest article by @eduecarrillo advocates for platforms to provide the same standards of protection, investment, and access to information globally as they do in advanced economies, even for nations that lack adequate privacy, data protection, and access safeguards.
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The popular debate around digital platforms often focuses on the hegemonic role of a small number of big tech companies, from GAFAM (Google, Apple, Faceb... botpopuli.net/big-tech-from-… a través de @PopuliBot
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#NewsletterAlert📣
🗞️ In the latest edition of DataSyn, we bring you analysis & commentary from different conjunctures of the Global South’s #platform economies. Highlights ⬇️
Read here: tinyurl.com/2dkeyyzw
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An important read on while negotiation on Global Digital Compact is ongoing by @ITforChange
Global Digital Compact: Back-sliding to a Failed Free-market Playbook? botpopuli.net/global-digital… via @PopuliBot
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Yeah, check it out. Highly recommended!
Check out this insightful piece where Sandeep Radhakrishnan critically reflects on the political trappings in today’s #AI industry that perpetuate its disruptive relationship to #labor
Read here: botpopuli.net/man-vs-machine…
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💬 In this month's @PopuliBot #DataSyn magazine by @ITforChange, a quote from our CEO @avilarenata on today's imperatives of digital governance.
👉🏾 botpopuli.net/the-imperative…
#GlobalDigitalJusticeForum
#GlobalDigitalCompact
#OpennessByDesign
#TheTechWeWant
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Loved this article on the roles of public sector workers in using AI tool to develop better data, and their dilemmas!
#NewRead
In this article, Sandeep Radhakrishnan examines #AI tools’ co-option of #worker knowledge & the political questions that this dynamic unravels. 🤖🔍 Highlights ⬇️ botpopuli.net/man-vs-machine…
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For @PopuliBot, I reviewed Big Tech's response to the #DigitalMarketsAct so far, including:
- initial lobbying to water down the proposal
- ramping up legal & lobby teams
- lawsuits to fight designation
- compliance plans = telling the EU to "drop dead"
botpopuli.net/dma-one-year-o…
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As EU tech regulators embark on a new policy cycle, their minds—and the lobby agenda—seem to be entirely focused on enforcing the raft of laws implem... botpopuli.net/dma-one-year-o… @PopuliBotより
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"As ... Generative AI—reaches new heights, how are these technologies shaping the everyday struggles of the workplace? What are the new possibilities and obstacles that they generate, for both discipline and resistance?" Read this article by @PopuliBot: botpopuli.net/labor-and-arti…
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🧵#MayDay2024: Join us in understanding the impact of the #PlatformEconomy on #labor struggles. The latest edition of our monthly #BigTech newsletter, Datasyn, takes a critical look at how #AI is reshaping work & #WorkerRights, & more!⏬
tinyurl.com/ynkwur53
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🌊 Una nueva ola colonialista a través de acuerdos comerciales digitales PopuliBot PopuliBot , por @SofiaScasserra
➕ buff.ly/4c4WfT9 (en inglés)
Via: @PopuliBot
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🧵What’s next for #DigitalTrade around the world? With the recently concluded WTO Ministerial Conference, the landscape is brimming with conversation. The latest edition of DataSyn is here to put some of these issues in perspective. ⬇️ #WTOMC13AbuDhabi
tinyurl.com/36a2x4mw
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📢#NewsletterAlert
As we ease into the new year, the battlefronts of digital policy are already raging with activity & in our latest issue of DataSyn we look at issues ranging from gig workers’ rights to the platform co-op movement! Highlights 👇🏾 tinyurl.com/dcufpvku
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#FreshOffThePress
📢 As the year draws to a close, we at IT for Change are excited to share the final issue of our monthly newsletter, DataSyn, bringing you exciting articles that delve into 🔥 topics in the #tech realm! Highlights 👇🏾tinyurl.com/5t4brkza