Bot Populi » Talking Digital Justice

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.

Situated as we are a few weeks from the United Nations’ Summit of the Future, this month we engage with the stakes of the Global Digital Compact (GDC) being negotiated therein. Our first piece takes stock of the discourse of the GDC as it has evolved, critically examining the distance that has emerged between its avowed goals and the specific types of measures being put forward to achieve them. Supplementing this analysis, our second piece provides a more general picture, bringing together a series of key voices from the Global Digital Justice Forum to briefly reflect on the state of digital justice today. As a bonus, we're launching a new editorial track called ‘Experiments In Theory,’ focusing on contemporary theoretical debates around the platform economy. In this issue, we explore the ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ approach within the context of digital platforms.