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Virtual Launch Event of the Study Custom Built / Feito Sob Medida
How can tech and democracy programs better serve the needs and challenges of Global Majority countries? What are divergence points between Global North and Global Majority tech justice advocacies? How are so-called “whole-of-society” tech and democracy coalitions guilty of knowledge and data extractivism?
This event launches an important new study entitled Custom Built / Feito Sob Medida: Reforming Tech and Democracy Programs for the Global Majority. Retelling both frustrations and creative aspirations of over 100 frontliners of election integrity and media freedom initiatives from Brazil to India to Kenya to the Philippines, the study discusses the “illusion of inclusion” in the tech and democracy space. Overdetermined by Global North funding priorities and governments’ securitization agenda, tech and democracy projects are often experienced in the Global Majority as top-down and tools- and tech-first rather than community-driven, healing-oriented, and custom built, or in Portuguese, feito sob medida.
In this webinar, we will be joined by Marcelo Alves (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), Jonathan Corpus Ong (UMass Amherst), and Raquel Recuero (Federal University of Pelotas), who will discuss their vision for a more globally minded and community-driven tech justice agenda that centers Global Majority creative capacities and distinct challenges of institutional capture and fractured civil society.
This discussion will be moderated by GloTech’s Ethan Zuckerman (UMass Amherst).
This study is out and available for download at www.glotechlab.net.
Expert Discussants:
Prof Herman Wasserman (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Dr Nina Santos (Desinformante, Brazil)
Paco Camacho (The Asia Foundation, Philippines)
Sabhanaz Rashid Diya (Tech Global Institute)
Dinita Putri (Luminate Group)
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