People have been taking to Web 3.0 while looking for alternatives to dominant forms of predatory and destructive capitalism. But does Web 3.0 have the same power structures and logics that govern Big Tech?
Analyzing the gap between the need for sexuality-related information among youngsters and the lack of a school-based comprehensive sexuality education curriculum in China.
What goes wrong when society pins its hopes on tech billionaires to solve the world’s problems?
We are handing the keys of the food system to data giants, but does Big Tech really have the answers?
This article is based on a panel discussion organized by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and IT for Change as part of the NGO CSW66 Virtual Forum held on 15 March 2022.
The digital economy continues to be marked by deep power asymmetries between capital and labor. Work precarization, and opaque, inscrutable algorithmic regimes of management chip away at decent work conditions. Automation poses wicked conundrums for economic policy in the North and South alike.
How has the worker rights movement pushed back against the excesses brought forth by Big Tech? What battles are won, what remain, and what does the future hold? Experts weigh in.
Exploring the consequences of datafication of welfare policies in Latin America and the role of intersectional feminist perspectives.
Exploring the paradox of social movements utilizing monopolized social media to promote messages of global justice while examining the means by which activists and the larger public can shift to freer and fairer options.
On feminist governance and negotiation of the misogyny-guided online desire culture in South Korea.