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Large tech companies like Meta or Google are dividing the world among themselves. And not just the digital world. The often invisible side of a globally connected world is the exploitative conditions that accompany it, mostly in the Global South. Digital technology and tools require enormous amounts of raw materials, energy, and (click) labor, for example, for AI or for the mentally extremely demanding content moderation for social media. People around the world are fighting for a just, self-determined digital future. What would this look like? What would be different? What does this require in civil society and the educational landscape here locally?
Speaker: Esther Mwema is an award-winning artist and expert on digital inequalities in the areas of internet governance, internet infrastructure, and internet freedom. Her work combines art and technology and questions hidden power structures in digital society, including fiber optic cables, digital colonialism, and gender equality. For over ten years, she has been working for grassroots social change through her non-profit organization Digital Grassroots and has done extensive work within the UN system. She is a leading advocate for Open Internet for Democracy, which focuses on African feminist and decolonial practices.
Language: German and English spoken language with simultaneous interpretation in both directions.
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