Asia’s Big Brother: advancements in #tech have also harmed #humanrights and civil liberties, with governments increasingly using tech to stifle #freedomofspeech, enact #digitalauthoritarianism, and create #surveillance states.

More in this #AsiaUndercovered Special: https://www.undercovered.asia/asia-undercovered-special-technology/

#DigitalAuthoritarianism: "Taking the traditional understanding of digital authoritarianism as a point of departure, this report tasked 9 experts from a variety of regional focus areas and academic disciplines – inter alia comparative and international law, political economy, data studies, and media & communications – with offering their views on what digital authoritarianism means, what empirical factors drive it, and how we can develop theory around it that allows for a more global, inclusive conversation to address the various ways it might manifest in societies. This approach was specifically designed to include novel angles into and/or underrepresented voices in conversations about digital technology and policy, and so these contributions range from the Global South implications of AI ‘epistemic authoritarianism’, to the urgent (un)democratic potential of central bank digital currencies in global finance."

https://www.berggruen.org/ideas/articles/decoding-digital-authoritarianism/

Democracy isn't measured by the existence of elections but rather by the existence of countervailing power. Authoritarian countries can countenance elections but will not tolerate effective opposition. Digital surveillance, disinformation, internet shutdowns, repressive laws and arrests of those speaking out online are anti-democratic practices. #digitalRights #surveillance #spyware #disinformation #DigitalAuthoritarianism
https://euobserver.com/digital-eu/156478?s=09

An Introduction into Non-Dual Consensus Building

https://rome-viharo.medium.com/an-introduction-into-non-dual-consensus-building-e006eb04f722

#consensus #DigitalAuthoritarianism #ConsensusAlgorithm #ConsensusMechanism #Nonduality #DigitalDemocracy