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Surveillance in the Majority World Network

@surveillancemw.bsky.social

Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network aims to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Northern / Western discourses and practices. https://surveillance-majority-world.net

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Surveillance in the Majority World Network@surveillancemw.bsky.social · last yr.

📣Surveillance in the Majority World March newsletter is out! In this issue, you will read about: 1- New Book: Digital Surveillance in Africa by @phatcontroller.bsky.social & Admire Mare 2- Surveillance & Society Journal’s Dialogue Section on Authoritarian Surveillance (@survstudiesnet.bsky.social)

Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Mar 2025

We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.

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Surveillance in the Majority World Network@surveillancemw.bsky.social · last yr.

📣Our February newsletter is out! Read more on indigenous statistics, policing a postcolonial city, the political economy of smart surveillance in Curitiba, Brazil, Morocco’s AI-Enhanced governance of borders, predatory data & call for proposals for Africa Spyware & Digital Surveillance!

Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Feb 2025

We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.

surveillance-majority-world.net

Anja Neundorf@anjaneundorf.bsky.social · 2y ago

How do autocrats stay in power? Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇

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keep your electric eye on me@ubisurv.net · 2y ago

Fascinating piece on the problems faced by one of #China's Belt and Road post- #smartcity / free port projects in #Pakistan... empire-building isn't easy. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

What went wrong with ‘Pakistan’s Dubai’? – inside the Chinese initiative that is prompting terror attacks

The small port city of Gwadar has a huge new airport funded by China, but local suspicion of Beijing’s true intentions threatens to wreck the project

theguardian.com

Surveillance in the Majority World Network@surveillancemw.bsky.social · 2y ago

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees holds a webinar on the "Threat of AI and Technology to Immigrant Justice" on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 9:45am to 11:00am PST. Register at the link.

The Threat of AI and Technology to Immigrant Justice

As technological innovation accelerates, so too do its potential harms, particularly for immigrant communities. AI and tech tools are increasingly being weaponized in surveillance, enforcement, detent...

gcir.org

Surveillance in the Majority World Network@surveillancemw.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our January newsletter is out! Read about Syrian surveillance revelation after Assad's fall, India’s draft data protection rules, Latin America’s 2024 overview of AI Integration, @oiioxford.bsky.social's Global Southing Internet workshop & New OA Book on Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries.

Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Jan 2024

We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.

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Azadeh Akbari@azadehakbari.bsky.social · 2y ago

A reminder to join our panel at the International Public Policy Conference in Chiang Mai/Thailand this July! The abstract submission deadline is 31 Jan ⏰ The conference has a thematic focus on the Global South and I look very much forward to all the amazing discussions!

Azadeh Akbari@azadehakbari.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join our panel on "critical perspectives on global AI policy and governance" at the International Public Policy Conference in Chiang Mai/Thailand! The call for papers is below! The deadline for submitting abstracts of 300-500 words is 31 January 2025.

ana valdivia@anavaldi.bsky.social · 2y ago

🤖 Register and submit your abstract for the two-days workshop at the @oiioxford.bsky.social on: "Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop" organised by @jonasvalente.bsky.social 🗓️10:00, Tuesday 25 March - 17:00, Wednesday 26 March, 2025 👉 www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop

This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.

oii.ox.ac.uk

Catherine Bracy@catherinebracy.com · 2y ago

The sad thing is, this H1-B dust-up distracts from the fact that tech companies can (and are) increasingly outsource the vast majority of these jobs to workers who never have to step foot on American soil. ScaleAI is the most important company no one is talking about. www.inc.com/sam-blum/sca...

Lawsuit Calls Scale AI ‘the Sordid Underbelly of the Generative AI Industry’

CEO Alexandr Wang is named in the suit, which cites emotional distress for contractors who worked on a self-harm-prevention project for Meta.

inc.com

Surveillance in the Majority World Network@surveillancemw.bsky.social · 2y ago

Join our team! 🤗 Are you a graduate student interested in surveillance studies? We need an enthusiastic bookworm to help us compile an online library of publications on surveillance in the Majority World. Please follow the link for applications. We have a small budget to compensate for the hours.

Join our team! – Surveillance in the Majority World

Are you a graduate student interested in surveillance studies? We need an enthusiastic bookworm to help us compile an online library of publications on surveillance in the Majority World.

surveillance-majority-world.net

Surveillance in the Majority World Network@surveillancemw.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our first newsletter is up! Read about some cool new tools, the false promise of biometrics by @lhreports.bsky.social, automation on the move by @algorithmwatch.bsky.social, listen to a podcast on Afrotopia, learn about India-Isreal AI weapon systems collaboration, & maybe decide to join our team!

Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Dec 2024 – Surveillance in the Majority World

We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.

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Surveillance in the Majority World Network@surveillancemw.bsky.social · 2y ago

The mass diagnoses have been made as part of lawsuit being brought against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and Samasource Kenya, an outsourcing company that carried out content moderation for Meta using workers from across Africa... from @theguardian.com

More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD

Exclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya

theguardian.com

Surveillance in the Majority World Network@surveillancemw.bsky.social · 2y ago

We had the first Majority World track at the Surveillance Studies Conference and it was a great success! Soon we will announce more exciting programs for 2025 😎

Surveillance Studies Network@survstudiesnet.bsky.social · 2y ago

2024 in review. SSN and Surveillance & Society have had a great year! This was the 22nd Volume of S&S, and we also ran our 10th international conference. Let's start with Surveillance & Society. Under @torinmonahan.bsky.social's brilliant stewardship, we published 4 issues of the journal...

Azadeh Akbari@azadehakbari.bsky.social · 2y ago

Critical ICT4D written by a wonderful group of scholars and edited by @silviahedley.bsky.social and me is out and it's open-access with 11 chapters that reflect, problematise, and construct alternative trajectories for information and communication technologies in development contexts 🥳🎉So excited!

Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Develop

The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing, and researching Information and Communication Technologies

taylorfrancis.com

Tony Roberts@phatcontroller.bsky.social · 2y ago

The digitalisation of social protection has made it more difficult for many informal sector and marginalised workers to access their rights and entitlements. Workers & human rights specialists must participate in system design & evaluation. #DigitalRights theconversation.com/welfare-paym...

Welfare payments are going digital in Africa – but this isn’t helping those without internet access or smartphones

Digitalising social protection overcomes several inefficiencies – but also creates barriers that prevent access for millions of people.

theconversation.com