Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
This masterclass explored how digitalisation has perpetuated global inequality? Who benefits and loses from global value chains? How is the internet and data management governed globally? What are the strategies of the major state digital powers - US, China and Europe – and where does that leave everyone else?
Speakers:
- Ulises Mejias, Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego, co-founder of the Non-Aligned Technologies Movement and co-author of ‘Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back’ (Penguin 2024)
- Paola Ricuarte, Associate professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey, co-founder of Tierra Común, dedicated to decolonising data, and regional coordinator of the Feminist AI Research Network
- Nandini Chami deputy director of IT for Change and researcher on digital rights and development, and the political economy of women’s rights in the information society.
00:00 Introduction
02:40 Introduction to the Course Program
03:00 Introducing the Course Organisers: Nick Buxton, Sofia Scasserra, Pia Garavaglia, Jess Graham
03:10 Open-source policy of the TNI
03:40 Introduction to the Module for Week 3: Geopolitics of data and development
04:11 Introduction of experts: Ulises Mejias, Paola Ricuarte, Nandini Chami
10:22 Data grab
13:19 Data colonialism vs. historical colonialism
16:11 Definition of Data Colonialism
18:43 Concepts of cheap nature, cheap labor, cheap data
20:28 Alternative Futures of Technology
22:00 Rise of new data governmentality
24:07 Feminist perspective on digitalisation
25:09 Action points on digital revolution
35:10 Digital colonialism model is not sustainable
37:50 Body territory
40:00 Resistance to technological hegemony
42:00 Colonial model of digital capitalism
46:00 China’s role in digital capitalism
48:20 EU double standards on digital rights
52:00 Resistance is multidimensional
57:40 Decolonial feminist future of the internet
01:07:10 Algorithmic governance in India
01:08:40 Data colonialism and imperialism
01:12:20 Racism in digital and data colonialism
01:16:00 Digital alternatives
01:17:17 No Tech For Apartheid
01:18:10 Hegemonic technologies are the technologies of war
01:20:25 Dialogue with the Big Tech
01:23:00 Wrap-Up
This masterclass explored how digitalisation has perpetuated global inequality? Who benefits and loses from global value chains? How is the internet and data management governed globally? What are the strategies of the major state digital powers - US, China and Europe – and where does that leave everyone else?
Speakers:
- Ulises Mejias, Professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego, co-founder of the Non-Aligned Technologies Movement and co-author of ‘Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back’ (Penguin 2024)
- Paola Ricuarte, Associate professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey, co-founder of Tierra Común, dedicated to decolonising data, and regional coordinator of the Feminist AI Research Network
- Nandini Chami deputy director of IT for Change and researcher on digital rights and development, and the political economy of women’s rights in the information society.
00:00 Introduction
02:40 Introduction to the Course Program
03:00 Introducing the Course Organisers: Nick Buxton, Sofia Scasserra, Pia Garavaglia, Jess Graham
03:10 Open-source policy of the TNI
03:40 Introduction to the Module for Week 3: Geopolitics of data and development
04:11 Introduction of experts: Ulises Mejias, Paola Ricuarte, Nandini Chami
10:22 Data grab
13:19 Data colonialism vs. historical colonialism
16:11 Definition of Data Colonialism
18:43 Concepts of cheap nature, cheap labor, cheap data
20:28 Alternative Futures of Technology
22:00 Rise of new data governmentality
24:07 Feminist perspective on digitalisation
25:09 Action points on digital revolution
35:10 Digital colonialism model is not sustainable
37:50 Body territory
40:00 Resistance to technological hegemony
42:00 Colonial model of digital capitalism
46:00 China’s role in digital capitalism
48:20 EU double standards on digital rights
52:00 Resistance is multidimensional
57:40 Decolonial feminist future of the internet
01:07:10 Algorithmic governance in India
01:08:40 Data colonialism and imperialism
01:12:20 Racism in digital and data colonialism
01:16:00 Digital alternatives
01:17:17 No Tech For Apartheid
01:18:10 Hegemonic technologies are the technologies of war
01:20:25 Dialogue with the Big Tech
01:23:00 Wrap-Up
