Microtask and freelance jobs are reshaping tech work in new ways in the Global South. But how much do they contribute to long term productive development?
AgriTech has transformed small-scale farming in Latin America at great risk to rights of peasants and indigenous peoples, and food sovereignty.
Big Tech has weaponized trade policy to strengthen its monopoly and hold over data. The solution is multi-dimensional data governance.
Regulation is finally recognizing Big Tech’s capture of the digital infrastructural core. But are efforts like the EU Digital Markets Act partial solutions?
Digitalization in health demands a governance architecture that generates trust, empowers people, and checks the power of Big Tech.
The fintech model increasingly serves the commercial and ideological agendas of corporations. There is an urgent need to reshape the sector for local economic development and social justice.
The profit oriented model of privately owned, panoptic, centralized architectures for social media are failing us badly. Its time for a social media commons.
The strenuous tension between the right to health and the emerging issues of digitalization are rapidly emerging. Studying Brazil’s health system offers both lessons and warnings.
Labor’s ability to negotiate with capital has reduced because of work mediated by Big Tech. Workers’ agenda must include algorithm regulation, data and financial rights of workers.
The historical choices with respect to Internet Governance has enabled Big Tech’s rise and shaped the current regulatory dilemmas around the digital.
Current regulation are too limited and superficial to address the intellectual monopoly power of Big Tech. Can an alternative regulatory framework be the answer?
A massive data capture by Big Tech in the agricultural space is unfolding in Asia. Small farmers are resisting this in various ways.
Will an alternative future for the web be about public and commons-based digital tools or the monetization of online communities?
As the underlying power structures in agri-tech unfold and the hands of actors like Alphabet and Amazon become visible, civil society needs to be seized of the full impact of digitalization.
The international taxation regime cannot tackle Big Tech’s staggering revenues and profits. But the OECD’s Two-Pillar Solution will not ensure tax justice for the Global South.