Analyzing the crypto discourse as it surges through Africa, posturing itself, ironically, as an antidote to ‘financial colonialism’.
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Crypto Imperialism and Financial Inclusion in Africa
Platforms and the Risk of Precarity
Examining the benefits and challenges of platform-enabled data work in Venezuela.
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Platform Capitalism in Murky Financial Waters
Amid the global surge in inflation, massive sell-offs in stock markets, and recurring plunges in the value of many assets in the crypto sphere, what can be said about the future of the digital economy?
- Big Tech Watch
On Web 3.0 and the Promise of Alternatives: Big Tech by any Other Name…
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?
- Big Tech Watch
Great Men Simply Know Better: How the Twitter Takeover Exposes One of Big Tech’s Most Harmful Traits
What goes wrong when society pins its hopes on tech billionaires to solve the world’s problems?
- Big Tech Watch
What’s up with Libra? Everything That Should Concern Us About Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency
Analyzing Libra, Facebook’s new currency, in the context of its governance, its control over financial data, and the financial risk associated with it.
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