Transcript of our interview with Jane Kelsey exploring the issues with the new global trade arena, ways to resist them, and how the digital fight is now at the core of the 21st century trade agenda.
Exploring questions around the sustainability of the current trajectory of digitization, international interests and the digital revolution, the US-China struggle for digital domination.
The hyper-liberalization of digital trade can be more grievous and devastating for women in the Global South than in any other previous round of trade globalization. Developing countries need to come together to hold firmly to the ‘right to regulate’ digital trade, rejecting the dominant policy rhetoric on gender and e-commerce.
An interview with Amber Sinha exploring the role of social media platforms in India’s 2019 general elections and the ways in which it enhances/challenges democracy.
An interview with Ansgar Koene exploring questions of regulating bias in AI and the viability of AI-for-good.
Analyzing the digital policy implications of the US, Mexico and Canada agreement (USMCA), which professed to be accessible to all, but large global firms will be particular beneficiaries.
The datafication of social life has led to a profound transformation in how society is ordered, how decisions are made, and how citizens are governed. However, if datafied societies are to be democratic, data scores and other predictive analytics need to be closely scrutinized by citizens, through new forms of participation and civic control.
Micro work sounds appealing in practice. However, access to these online platforms can be quite complex. The flexibility on digital labor platforms is, thus, quite illusory.
In the face of the reductionist economic logic of data, we need alternative imaginaries and metaphors to better understand the relationship between our selves (our bodies, personalities and communities) and the technologies we inhabit.
As the digital era evolves, the recent blacklisting of Huawei by the US may turn out to be an event of historic significance.