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State of Big Tech 2022: Dismantling Digital Enclosures<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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We invite you to delve into the first edition of our State of Big Tech Compendium. Envisioned as an evolving, year-on-year endeavor that will track and unpack the developments in the Big Tech space, the debut edition of this powerful volume of essays brings together important perspectives on the corporatization of digital technologies from across regions and constituencies.<\/p>\n

The essays in this edition look at how this dynamic is unfolding across a wide range of contexts: from the integration of AI into education, to the digital capture of our food systems; from Big Tech\u2019s attempts to monopolize research and innovation networks, to their trojan-horse proposals for instituting their power in multilateral spaces. Through diverse cases and illustrations, our many authors champion a basic set of concerns, exploring the machinations of private power, the short-comings of current regulatory frameworks, attempts at popular mobilization, and bold visions for alternative digital futures.<\/p>\n

The State of Big Tech seeks to contribute a vision and blueprint for national and global pathways to reclaim society and economy for the 99%, providing a scorecard of tech corporations\u2019 misdeeds, and a constructive and critical cartography of policy and political action based on what is not working.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Rise of the Platform Economy: Implications for Labor and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries<\/a><\/h4>\n\t

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? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t

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The Big Tech Takeover of Food Systems in Latin America: Elements for a Human Rights-based Alternative<\/a><\/h4>\n\t

AgriTech has transformed small-scale farming in Latin America at great risk to rights of peasants and indigenous peoples, and food sovereignty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t

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Rigging the Rules: How Big Tech Uses Stealth \u201cTrade\u201d Agreements and How We Can Stop Them<\/a><\/h4>\n\t

Big Tech has weaponized trade policy to strengthen its monopoly and hold over data. The solution is multi-dimensional data governance. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t

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State of Big Tech 2022: Dismantling Digital Enclosures We invite you to delve into the first edition of our State of Big Tech Compendium. Envisioned as an evolving, year-on-year endeavor that will track and unpack the developments in the Big Tech space, the debut edition of this powerful volume of essays brings together important perspectives […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/state-of-big-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/state-of-big-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/state-of-big-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/state-of-big-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/state-of-big-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/state-of-big-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/state-of-big-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/592\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.itforchange.net\/state-of-big-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}