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Kai-Hsin Hung
August 29 | 5 min readCharles Ikem
August 29 | 10 min readSopio Zhgenti and Wayne Holmes
July 24 | 5 min readCecilia Rikap
July 20 | 7 min readShreeja Sen
June 27 | 8 min readMichael Kwet
June 27 | 13 min readIT for Change
June 6 | 9 min readMatthew Canfield and Maywa Montenegro
May 29 | 11 min readAatish Sahai
May 26 | 9 min readMaximiliano Vila Seoane
May 26 | 8 min readThe DataSyn Team
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Yorgos Altintzis and Kate Lappin
September 8Nanjira Sambuli
September 8Elenita Dano
September 8Duncan McCan
September 8Jean F. Quéralt
September 8Jane Kelsey
September 8Kartini Samon
September 8A little bit about us
Hello and welcome to Bot Populi! We are an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. We aim to meaningfully shape the public discourse on digitalization and prompt important conversations about transformative change for a better digital future.
To this end, we explore how the digital world affects different aspects of our lives in obvious and unexpected ways. Our contributors include passionate and committed scholars, activists, and visionaries from around the world working on issues of digital justice.
DataSyn
This issue of DataSyn, sheds light on different facets of Africa’s burgeoning digital economy. Our first piece looks at the complex relationships that have been engendered by China’s role in Africa’s digital infrastructure. Our second piece critically examines the current state of the fintech industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the many problems it continues to pose. Additionally, in continuation of our artificial intelligence (AI) series, our third piece takes a look at how dominant framings of AI regulatory discourse often obfuscate the political stakes involved, and what needs to be done to recenter these
Sections
Engage with our diverse thematic tracks examining various facets of our digital world. We explore labor issues in the digital economy, provide critiques of corporate excess and surveillance capitalism, examine feminist issues in the online sphere, investigate developments in AI and tech policy, and much more.
Featured Podcast
Feminist Digital Futures explores feminist imaginations of social media with scholars, activists and leaders from the Global South. Tune in!
Archive
Our contributors have covered diverse issues of digital justice in the Global South. Get to know what they have to say. Explore our past publications through our Archive!

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