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Financial technology, or ‘fintech’, is a widely celebrated recent innovation. However, in our new publication we explore how fintech's seductive narrative is a fundamentally flawed and inaccurate portrayal of the emerging reality.
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Dear reader,
Financial technology, or ‘fintech’, is a widely celebrated recent innovation. However, in our new publication we explore how fintech's seductive narrative is a fundamentally flawed and inaccurate portrayal of the emerging reality. While it is clear that fintech offers a major opportunity to improve the lives of the poor if done right, and it has had some important initial successes, its full long-term impact looks far less rosy given the way that it has been operationalised to date.
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Find out more in our newest Digital Futures publication 'The Promises and Perils of Investor-Driven Fintech: Forging People-Centered alternatives'.
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This book The Great Takeover: Mapping of Multistakeholderism in Global Governance represents an important moment on the road to exposing this trend, raised on the international agenda by a group of social movements, networks and organizations who started to walk the journey together a few years ago. The journey has resulted in a deeper analysis of how corporate capture is achieving dominance in world affairs.
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The database:"The Great Takeover" is an analysis of the mapping of 103 multistakeholderism initiatives in Education, Environment, Health, Internet and Data, and Food & Agriculture. To support further analyses and political action, we have made the whole database available in an easy-to-navigate tool.
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This longread analyses the political economy of the liberalization of electricity prices in Egypt, highlighting the main policy shifts in regard to electricity pricing.
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COP26 failed to muster enough political will for climate action, but there was no expense spared in one arena.
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Join this timely discussion on populism, authoritarianism and agrarian struggles
Speakers:
- Achin Vanaik (TNI, India)
- Garrett Lovelace-Graddy (American University, USA),
- Attila Szocs (Ecoruralis & ECVC, Romania)
- Ayala Ferreira (LVC & Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), Brazil)
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In this fascinating discussion, Eda Seyhan lays out why an abolitionist analysis of official pandemic responses is essential and what an alternative approach would look like.
Eda Seyhan is an international human rights lawyer and researcher, focused on policing, national security and racial justice, and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies. Arun Kundnani is a TNI associate and author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic War on Terror.
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The Davos 2022 Roundup
These articles by IT for Change probe into the ways in which multistakeholderism and tech-solutions are forwarded as ideal responses to govern the digital, and examine the underlying corporate capture currently underway by the ‘Davos Class’.
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