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| New Cool Tools |
| If you have not already come across them, we highly recommend looking into these two projects: Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. Planetary AI is a collaborative project mapping the value chains of AI from the Majority World perspective. First phase examines the value chains of data work. The second phase will study materiality and environmental cost of AI. |
| Lighthouse Reports: Three-country investigation shows digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost, while making fortunes for tech vendors. Read the reports on Uganda, Mozambique, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. >>>Read more |
| Algorithm Watch: Systems based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) are increasingly being experimented with and used on migrants, refugees, and travelers. Too often, this is done without adequate democratic discussion or oversight. Read their full report on EU-funded research and innovation projects in border security that involve the use of automated systems and artificial intelligence. >>>Read more |
| Middle East Eye: The Arbel weapons system is said to enhance machine guns and assault weapons so users can hit their targets more accurately and efficiently. >>>Read more |
| LitHouse Podcast: How can Africa reach its full potential when Europe is still the blueprint to model oneself after? Not only has centuries of colonization and exploitation stripped the continent of opportunities, but the term “development” has all but become synonymous with following in Europe’s footsteps. This is the argument of Senegalese academic Felwine Sarr in his book Afrotopia, which has had great influence in academic as well as public discourse. >>>Listen here |
| Events / Opportunities |
| Are you a graduate student interested in surveillance studies? We need an enthusiastic bookworm to help us compile an online library of publications on surveillance in the Majority World. You will work with Zotero software and spend at least five hours per week adding literature to our library in a systematic way. Please send contact@surveillance-majority-world.net a cover letter explaining your motivation to join (no longer than one page) and your CV (no longer than three pages) by 6 January 2025. We have a small budget to compensate for the hours. |
| Translation Suggestions |
| Do you have any translation recommendations of surveillance-related research and theory from the Majority World? Do you know of any work that could reach a wider audience and contribute to the field of surveillance studies? If so, please get in touch. We will assist you with translation, publication, or copy-editing. Send your recommendations to contact@surveillance-majority-world.net |
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