[Air-L] Invitation/new study: Reforming Tech and Democracy Programs for the Global Majority

[Jonathan Ong]


Hi everybody!

I’m sharing a brand new study entitled Custom Built / Feito Sob Medida: Reforming Tech and Democracy Programs for the Global Majority<https://glotechlab.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/GloTech_Custom_Built_Final.pdf>.

Born out of a two-year Global Majority Knowledge Exchange project led by researchers in Brazil and the Philippines, this paper is a record of civil society leaders’ resentments and frustrations of implementing anti-disinfo and election integrity initiatives in recent years. The study calls out the “illusion of inclusion” in the tech and democracy space, where program priorities have been overdetermined by Global North tech corporations and governments’ foreign policy. The report aims to be a tool for advocacy for Global Majority researchers and civil society leaders to challenge coalitional practices of data and knowledge extractivism and co-options of critical community-led research for securitization and conflict agendas.

Join our free webinar on November 20 hosted by the Social Science Research Council. Register here and check out event details: https://www.ssrc.org/events/reforming-tech-and-democracy-programs-for-the-global-majority/

Download the report from the Global Technology for Social Justice Lab (GloTech) website:  https://glotechlab.net

Hope you all stay grounded and connected with community on this high-stress week,
Jonathan (on behalf of co-authors JM, Dean, Marcelo, Rafael, Raquel, and Camilla)




Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong, Professor of Global Digital Media / GloTech Inaugural Director
Recent research:

  1.  Custom Built: Reforming Tech and Democracy Programs for the Global Majority: https://glotechlab.net/custom_built_main/
  2.  Targeted Countries Should Demand Accountability from the Pentagon: https://www.techpolicy.press/targeted-countries-should-demand-accountability-from-the-pentagon-and-platforms-for-covid-disinformation/
  3.  Disinfo-for-Hire as Everyday Digital Labor: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/20563051231224723
  4.  Links to open-access research: www.linktr.ee/joncong<http://www.linktr.ee/joncong>