#DigitalEconomy #DigitalColonialism #VC #SiliconValley: "As countries in the Global South have long been plundered for labor and precious natural resources, today’s digital economy is extracting data from its citizens. And as the new dirty jobs of the digital economy are outsourced to the Global South—for instance, content moderators and data labelers in Kenya and the Philippines scouring the dregs of social media to protect the public from extreme and graphic material—we are witnessing the construction of a new age of digital sweatshops, where the most dangerous work is offshored to be performed by workers with the fewest protections.

The tech industry likes to present itself as presiding over a new industrial revolution that will change the world forever. It’s a more apt comparison than they might realize. As Dr. Onoho’Omhen Ebhohimhen of the Nigeria Labour Congress explained to us, noting that the effects of the digital economy, such as algorithmic management of workers, “is akin to reproducing the first Industrial Revolution, where workers were bonded and locked up, worked for 20 hours or more in a day, and had no right to a family life.”

Yet, it doesn’t have to be this way. Digital innovation can disrupt economies in favor of collaborative, solidarity-based forms of decent and quality work, where all can flourish. So, how might we democratize the digital economy so workers have agency and are able to shape the future alongside the technologists and venture capitalists of Silicon Valley?"

https://ssir.org/articles/entry/building_the_future_of_work_we_want

Digital colonialism - the new deployment of a quasi-imperial power over a vast number of people, without their explicit consent, manifested in rules, designs, languages, cultures and belief systems by a vastly dominant power.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/abeba-birhane-ai-datasets
#digital #colonialism #DigitalColonialism

@atomicpoet You've gone back to talking about the protocol again.

Anyhow I agree with @smallpatatas that your phrasing here parallels the language of colonizers.

Here are some good articles looking at Meta's #DigitalColonialism.

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-to-fight-digital-colonialism/

https://www.thelondonfinancial.com/scitech/digital-colonialism-facebook-in-eastern-africa

https://netzpolitik.org/2022/series-on-digital-colonialism-how-meta-aims-to-dominate-indias-agriculture-sector/

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/facebook-and-the-new-colonialism/462393/

Oh and let's not forget the #Meta board member who described anti-colonialism as "economically catastrophic for India for decades".

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35547416

#AI #Racism #Sexism #DigitalColonialism #SiliconValley #BigTech: "Machine learning research is overwhelmingly male and white, a demographic world away from the diverse communities it purports to help. And Big Tech firms don’t just offer online diversions—they hold enormous amounts of power to shape events in the real world.

Birhane and others have branded this “digital colonialism”—arguing that the power of Big Tech rivals the old colonial empires. Its harms will not affect us all equally, she argues: As technology is exported to the global south, it carries embedded Western norms and philosophies along with it. It’s sold as a way of helping people in underdeveloped nations, but it’s often imposed on them without consultation, pushing them further into the margins. “Nobody in Silicon Valley stays up worrying about the unbanked Black women in a rural part of Timbuktu,” Birhane says."

https://www.wired.com/story/abeba-birhane-ai-datasets/

Damn! This talk on May 15 would have been great and it was livestreamed. Why didn't I know about this beforehand?

'Digital colonialism, surveillance capitalism, and a libre software future'

https://www.fsf.org/events/libreplanet-workshop-digital-colonialism-surveillance-capitalism-and-a-libre-software-future-by-jose-castro

FYI This one is also being livestreamed, coming up on May 30:

'BigCode: Open and responsible research on code-generating AI systems'

https://www.fsf.org/events/libreplanet-talk-bigcode-open-and-responsible-research-on-code-generating-ai-systems

#DigitalColonialism #SurveillanceCapitalism #LibrePlanet

AI is Steeped in Big Tech's "Digital Colonialism" by Grace Browne

"Artificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then distributed around the world."

@abebab "and others have branded this #digitalcolonialism - arguing that the power of Big Tech rivals the old colonial empires[...] As technology is exported to the global south, it carries embedded Western norms and philosophies along with it."

#Ai #diversity #Technology

https://www.wired.com/story/abeba-birhane-ai-datasets/

AI is Steeped in Big Tech's "Digital Colonialism" by Grace Browne

"Artificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then distributed around the world."

@abebab@bird.makeup "and others have branded this #digitalcolonialism - arguing that the power of Big Tech rivals the old colonial empires[...] As technology is exported to the global south, it carries embedded Western norms and philosophies along with it."

#Ai #diversity #Technology

https://www.wired.com/story/abeba-birhane-ai-datasets/

AI Is Steeped in Big Tech’s ‘Digital Colonialism’ - Artificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then... - https://www.wired.com/story/abeba-birhane-ai-datasets/ #business/artificialintelligence #digitalcolonialism #business

Wired: AI Is Steeped in Big Tech’s ‘Digital Colonialism’ https://www.wired.com/story/abeba-birhane-ai-datasets/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #Business/ArtificialIntelligence #artificialintelligence #DigitalColonialism #technology #diversity #Business

Newly unmasked #CambridgeAnalytica affiliate #TeamJorge “black ops” group and its alleged election subversion activities in Africa extend to Kenya as politico acknowledged Telegram account hacked in lead-up to election. #DigitalColonialism #TheGreatHack https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/ruto-ally-says-telegram-account-was-hacked-before-kenyan-election

Come Meta punta a dominare il settore agricolo indiano

Insieme, [Meta e Reliance] monopolizzerebbero ampie fasce del mercato indiano, dai sistemi di pagamento mobile al settore della vendita al dettaglio, dalle informazioni sugli utenti alla decisione su ciò che gli agricoltori producono, comprano e vendono, e potenzialmente l’intera catena di approvvigionamento alimentare.

#digitalcolonialism

https://manomettere.noblogs.org/post/2022/12/08/come-meta-punta-a-dominare-il-settore-agricolo-indiano/

How to Fight Digital #Colonialism

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-to-fight-digital-colonialism/

#DigitalColonialism

Automated Imperialism, Expansionist Dreams (Digital Extractivism) new report. #digitalRights #digitalColonialism #extractivism #surveillanceCapitalism https://pollicy.org/projects/automated-imperialism-expansionist-dreams-digital-extractivism/

Americans often consider the power of #tech companies within the US but rarely think about their effect internationally, especially in the Global South. These companies connect all of us and use their power to force policy changes in their favor. Anything we can do to keep digital power in the hands of the people, here and internationally, is a benefit. #digitalcolonialism

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-to-fight-digital-colonialism/

@brennen yes, definitely and for all the reasons you mentioned.

They came to escape hellsite ending up reimplementing hellsite. I've spotted the term #digitalcolonialism to describe people coming over and demanding fedi be more like birdsite. Not sure it's appropriate tbh but it does sound right.

And ooh, just saw this – Language & Coloniality: Non-Dominant Languages in the Digital Landscape – newly out by Meital Kupfer and Jason Muyumba at Pollicy. https://pollicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Languages-Coloniality-Report.pdf #digitalColonialism #LanguageJustice

RT @stalfel@twitter.com

"The more I look at the world, I see colonial practices which were previously inflicted upon populations in the colonised world deployed in the home countries."

This applies also to #digitalcolonialism

https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-colonial-roots-of-present-crises/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/stalfel/status/1583050947822919680

Today in #DigitalColonialism: trust us with your chickens, says the jackal. https://www.itweb.co.za/content/rW1xLv5n5eJ7Rk6m Instead, let's keep user data in pods where it can be processed & only results shared #Solid

マイケル・クェット「デジタル植民地主義の深刻な脅威」を訳しました。https://www.alt-movements.org/no_more_capitalism/blog/2022/07/13/digital-colonialism-the-evolution-of-us-empire_jp/
訳者前書きから：トランスナショナル・インスティチュートのサイトに掲載された論文の翻訳。デジタル植民地主義という観点は、日本がデジタル政策の一環としてIT産業のグローバルな展開に力を入れていることも踏まえて忘れてならない観点だ。とくに監視技術と連動した生体認証やAIの技術については、国連のSDGsの政策を巧妙にとりこみながらグローバルサウスの政府への売り込みが進んでいる。南の諸国のオープンソースやフリーソフトウェアの取り組みを多国籍IT資本が潰し、いわばデジタル資本の本源的蓄積を推し進めてきた構造を批判している。日本の活動家たちが、マイクロソフトやAppleのOSを使うことやGAFAのサービスを使うことの意味に無自覚であることについても、この論文では「果たしてそれでいいのか」という問いを投げかけると思うのだが...
#DigitalColonialism #MichaelKwet

RT @avilarenata@twitter.com
Reading an excellent paper by @couldrynick: "The decolonial turn in data and technology research: what is at stake and where is it heading?" #digitalcolonialism https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1986102