The digital rights community is increasingly enclosed within spaces running on private donations. RightsCon, along with the IFF and re: publica, are becoming the ‘go to’ forums for conversations on internet governance. This article argues that there is a need to preserve public spaces such as the IGF, as critical alternatives for civil society.
With the use of AI, machine learning, and deep learning, digital spaces produce and reproduce structural discrimination.
Analyzing Libra, Facebook’s new currency, in the context of its governance, its control over financial data, and the financial risk associated with it.
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.