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Join TNI's Wednesday webinar along with a great panel of international activists, researchers and policy-makers who will help deepen your understanding of the power of Big Tech
Webinar 10 June – Taking on the Tech Titans
Dear reader,
Our weekly Wednesday COVID Capitalism series continues on 10 June 2020 at 4pm (CEST) with Taking on the Tech Titans: Reclaiming our data commons. You can register here.
The webinar will bring together a great panel of international activists, researchers and policy-makers who will help deepen our understanding of the power of Big Tech. It will explore who owns our data and why it matters, the relevance of data extraction for countries in the Global South, and the impact of COVID-19. It will ask what strategies, structures and institutions are needed at national and international levels to confront Big Tech and advance digital justice.
10 June 2020 at 4pm CEST.
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(Spanish and French interpretation will be available)
Panellists
- Anita Gurumurthy: Founding member and director of IT for Change, India, where she leads research collaborations and projects with a focus on governance, democracy and gender justice.
- Nanjira Sambuli: Researcher, writer, policy analyst, advocacy strategist on tech and governance, Kenya
- Ben Tarnoff: Tech worker, writer and founding editor of technology magazine Logic and author of the forthcoming Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do—And How They Do It (Sept 2020), US
- Caroline Nevejan: Chief Science Officer, City of Amsterdam & Chair of Designing Urban Experience, University of Amsterdam
- Vahini Naidu: Trade negotiatior, Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, South Africa
Moderated by Ben Hayes, TNI Associate, Founding Director of AWO, a new data rights agency. Researcher and consultant on security policies, counter-terrorism, border control and data protection.
This webinar is jointly organised by TNI with IT for Change and co-sponsored by Just Net Coalition, Focus on the Global South and Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC)
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Missed our latest webinar?
Watch COVID-19 and the global fight against mass incarceration here.
You can listen to the recording here.
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Webinar 12 June – The “Arab Spring” Lives On: Uprisings in times of a pandemic
Ten years ago, the Arab uprisings were celebrated as world changing events. The emancipatory experience was so contagious that people were inspired all over the world. Occupiers from London to Wall Street and the Indignados were proud to “Walk like an Egyptian”.
The revolutionary process that has swept North Africa and West Asia, driven by demands for bread, freedom, dignity and social justice, has seen ups and downs, gains and setbacks, which materialized in a liberal democratic transition in Tunisia and bloody counter-revolutions and imperialist interventions in other countries. This led some pundits to pronounce a death sentence on the so-called “Arab Spring”.
A decade on, this protracted revolutionary process is well into the second wave of revolt, triggered by the same features of governance and political economy that shaped the first wave. This time, it started from Sudan in December 2018 and spread to Algeria, Iraq and Lebanon. 2019 saw massive popular movements erupting onto the political stage, demanding radical change and achieving some historical gains. Although these movements find themselves pitted against entrenched authoritarian and counter-revolutionary forces that do everything to crush and bury them, including in times of COVID19, they will not simply pass into history; there are already signs that protests will resume when the pandemic subsides.
This webinar will attempt to shed some light on the political and socio-economic causes that led to these uprisings and on the actors involved, as well as share some insights about future perspectives beyond the pandemic.
You can register here.
Friday 12 June 2020 at 4pm (CEST).
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Panellists
- Muzan Alneel – Sudanese engineer, political activist and blogger.
- Brahim Rouabah - Co-founder of Algerian Solidarity Campaign. PhD candidate in Political Science at CUNY.
- Rima Majed - an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Beirut (AUB)
- Zahra Ali (Iraq): is a sociologist and feminist based at Rutgers University and author of "Women and Gender in Iraq".
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TNI is proud to provide our webinars and research for free as a contribution to the movements and activists responding to this pandemic. However, it takes time and resources to organise these events, to research and to publish. If you would like to support us in this work, please donate here.
Sincerely,
Jess Graham
Community Builder
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