Digital colonialism under the Western model of technology
Big Tech is reinventing colonialism in the digital era says Michael Kwet in discussing centralized control of the Internet at the root of current problems like privacy and monopoly power…
Digital Profiteers: Who Profits Next from Social Grants
The new frontier of the ‘digital welfare state’ poses new opportunities for corporations to profit from the data gathered from South Africa’s social grant system. This is a threat to…
The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms
The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms was published in to promote human rights standards and principles of openness in Internet policy formulation and implementation on the continent. The…
The Age of Surveillance-Capitalism -The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Read Shoshana's Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance-Capitalism -The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power Rad
The Internet and Monopoly Capitalism
from the Monthly Review by Daniel Auerbach and Brett Clark Without question, the Internet has had a profound influence on the world. As with most technologies, debates rage over whether this development has…
Feminist Principles of the internet
The Feminist Principles of the Internet are a series of statements that offer a gender and sexual rights lens on critical internet-related rights. Find the Principles and relate resources here:…
The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism
from Monthly Revirew by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney The United States and the world are now a good two decades into the Internet revolution, or what was once called the…