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.

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This month we bring to you a special edition, with four articles that put the spotlight on the path-breaking UN Tax Convention. Our first piece provides the historical and political context to understand the stakes of the UN Tax Convention. Our second piece delves into the details of how digital taxation is likely to be codified, and the likely fault lines between progressive forces and the interests of Big Tech. Our third piece broadens the scope, looking at how the UN Tax Convention may work in tandem with other multilateral tracks. Finally, our fourth piece captures the action on the ground, offering dispatches from the fight for progressive taxation as it is playing out in the G20. That's not all however! As a bonus piece this month, we also feature an exploratory reflection on the Draghi report from a Southern perspective.

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