Global Digital Futures
London, England
Joined October 2018
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Very cool podcast episode by the @SOASCodingClub, which makes the case (forcefully, and well) that tech companies should expand access to every language community. While it's possible to digitize your language if it lacks device support, it's not yet easy soascodingclub.com/soas-radi…
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Love this amazing piece by the BBC on our Sylhetis in the UK 🇧🇩
LIKE & RETWEET MY GUSHTI!
Let's make everyone know who we are 💯
And that we're proud to be Sylheti! ♥️
Ey! Bala Assonee? 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩
Half a million British Bangladeshis speak Sylheti… but there are fears it could die out. @qasalom meets the people trying to preserve the language 🗣
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What are the tensions between media and democracy in the Middle East? Aida Al-Kaisy, author of the @LSEMiddleEast report 'A Fragmented Landscape: Barriers to Independent Media in Iraq', speaks to @SOASCodingClub #GlobalDigitalFutures soascodingclub.com/soas-radi…
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Government internet ban leaves parts of Myanmar ‘in a blackout’, UN expert calls for immediate lifting news.un.org/en/story/2019/06…
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Or in other words, why "spycam porn" is a dangerous misnomer.
Via #rawblog
Online Consequences of being Offline: A Gendered Tale from South Korea
by Dr. Yenn Lee
medium.com/rawblog/online-co…
#Body #Gender #Privacy #MyLifeIsNotYourPorn #OfflineEssays
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Week 3: A great talk on "AI for Good" by Dr. Angad Chowdhry joining us from quilt.ai/ in Singapore.
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How popular are educational apps in India really? qz.com/india/1501004/
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How two friends changed careers, learned to code, and built a startup medium.freecodecamp.org/how-…
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A highlight of my life has been working on this awesomely inspiring edition of the @GaDjournal "For ICTs to realise their full potential for social justice, including gender equality, we need to look at issues of access...but further to power &inequality" genderanddevelopment.org/unc…
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We'll be live in 10 minutes from @SOAS for our panel event 'Feminists doing digital' – to launch our #ICTs issue. Stay tuned here >> facebook.com/GaDjournal/ #FeministsDoingDigital – at Oxford, England
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Want to learn how to reclaim your privacy online?
Get your *free* ticket NOW to our CryptoParty on *Tues 20th November* 7pm - late at @FreeWordCentre
Come for the free digital privacy workshops 💻 stay for the crypto-themed cocktails 🍸
Limited spaces!
freeword.org/event/cryptopar…
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ICYMI: Watch the video of Dr Sandra Wachter's incredible OII London Lecture: Show Me Your Data and I'll Tell You Who You Are: oii.ox.ac.uk/videos/oii-lond… #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #law @SandraWachter5
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17th-18th November
Happening at @ucl #London for this awesome superhero themed hackathon, Porticode 3.0 hosted by @UCLTechSoc
SUIT UP!
porticode.org/
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Malawi is going to force all businesses to accept at least one digital payment option
qz.com/africa/1446982… via @qzafrica
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Staff at Google offices around the world are staging an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company's treatment of women > bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46… #GoogleWalkout – at Liverpool, England
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Possibly the first time the crypto-anarchist manifesto was mentioned at SOAS?
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“Machine learning only works if the future looks like the past - however, people change over time. You can’t rob people from being the exception to the rule. You are more than the data you leave behind.” @SandraWachter5 #OIILondon
