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Workers vs. Platforms: The Battle That Will Define the Future of Labor
Workers vs. Platforms: The Battle That Will Define the Future of Labor
Tea Jarc
“Poetry is not a Luxury”: Cultural work as Essential Labor
“Poetry is not a Luxury”: Cultural work as Essential Labor
Sadhana Sanjay
Invisible Hands, Visible Futures: The Rise of Africa’s Data Worker Movement in the Age of AI
Invisible Hands, Visible Futures: The Rise of Africa’s Data Worker Movement in the Age of AI
Joan Kinyua
2026 May Day Special Issue - DataSyn
2026 May Day Special Issue - DataSyn
Editorial
A Brief History of Global AI Governance » Bot Populi
A Brief History of Global AI Governance » Bot Populi
AI regulation talk — the rules are that there are no rules The dust is yet to settle after the India AI Impact Summit, but the UN process for the Glob...
Freedom of Hate Speech? » Bot Populi
Freedom of Hate Speech? » Bot Populi
Digital platforms have become a breeding ground for misogyny, toxic masculinity, and gender-based violence. Across the world, women from all walks of lif...
Digital Governance in an Unraveling World - DataSyn
Digital Governance in an Unraveling World - DataSyn
Editorial
Editorial | March 2026 » Bot Populi
Editorial | March 2026 » Bot Populi
Dear Reader, In recent weeks, long-simmering tensions have erupted into open conflict, as the U.S. and Israel’s unprovoked assault on Iran has trigg...
Tragedy, Farce, or Ashes of the Old Order? » Bot Populi
Tragedy, Farce, or Ashes of the Old Order? » Bot Populi
The road from WSIS to WSIS+20 Twenty years ago, IT for Change was propelled into the WSIS process by chance. We embraced the opportunity to track and pa...
The Shifting Sands of Tech Politics - DataSyn
The Shifting Sands of Tech Politics - DataSyn
Editorial
Alternative Futures and Troubled Presents - DataSyn
Alternative Futures and Troubled Presents - DataSyn
Editorial
Possibilism in the Age of AI » Bot Populi
Possibilism in the Age of AI » Bot Populi
The Mythology of Platform Capitalism - DataSyn
The Mythology of Platform Capitalism - DataSyn
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Whither Digital Economy? » Bot Populi
Whither Digital Economy? » Bot Populi
Trump’s constant back-and-forth on tariffs has represented a rather momentous break in the aspirationally frictionless world of global trade. These all...
Movies That Don’t Move Anyone: In Defense of Embodied Filmmaking » Bot Populi
Movies That Don’t Move Anyone: In Defense of Embodied Filmmaking » Bot Populi
The Cost of Convenience » Bot Populi
The Cost of Convenience » Bot Populi
Platform Power and the Future of Work: Labor Frontiers in the Cross-Border Digital Economy
Platform Power and the Future of Work: Labor Frontiers in the Cross-Border Digital Economy
After years of sustained organizing and pressure by workers, unions, and allied movements across continents, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) ...
WSIS and the Movement to Democratize Communication
WSIS and the Movement to Democratize Communication
When the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was convened by the UN in 2003 (in Geneva) and 2005 (in Tunis), it was to be the first global mul...
On TAAK
On TAAK
India's digitalization journey has presented us with two different, but related, notions concerning personal data. On one hand is the recognition of da...
WSIS and the Movement to Democratize Communication
WSIS and the Movement to Democratize Communication
When the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was convened by the UN in 2003 (in Geneva) and 2005 (in Tunis), it was to be the first global mul...
Trade Rules vs. Tax Rights: Africa’s Digital Dilemma
Trade Rules vs. Tax Rights: Africa’s Digital Dilemma
Between Tariffs and Tech: What Will Europe Choose?
Between Tariffs and Tech: What Will Europe Choose?
Trump’s Tariffs and the Big Tech Takeover
Trump’s Tariffs and the Big Tech Takeover
Analyzing the India-UK Free Trade Agreement
Analyzing the India-UK Free Trade Agreement
Dirty Laundry: My Journey Through the Algorithm from Soweto to Nairobi’s Tech Hub
Dirty Laundry: My Journey Through the Algorithm from Soweto to Nairobi’s Tech Hub
The Algorithm’s Ghost Workers and the Illusion of Opportunity
The Algorithm’s Ghost Workers and the Illusion of Opportunity
Platform Capitalism in Emergency Healthcare
Platform Capitalism in Emergency Healthcare
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Subscribe to our newsletter, DataSyn on Substack
Moving Towards Local and People-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Moving Towards Local and People-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Fourth Agricultural Revolution: Who Bears The Costs, Who Gains The Benefits?
Fourth Agricultural Revolution: Who Bears The Costs, Who Gains The Benefits?
The Golden Age of AI: Power, Politics, and Trade
The Golden Age of AI: Power, Politics, and Trade
Trumpism and Techno-Politics at the Periphery
Trumpism and Techno-Politics at the Periphery
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Gig Worker
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Gig Worker
The Challenges of Digitization and Democracy in Peripheral Countries
The Challenges of Digitization and Democracy in Peripheral Countries
Just-in-Time Knowledge: Digital Technology and The Neoliberal Transformation of Education
Just-in-Time Knowledge: Digital Technology and The Neoliberal Transformation of Education
The Year Big Tech Came for Democracy
The Year Big Tech Came for Democracy
Gendering Information Integrity: Lessons from Feminist Scholarship to Media Policy
Gendering Information Integrity: Lessons from Feminist Scholarship to Media Policy
The Human Experience of Information Integrity in 2024
The Human Experience of Information Integrity in 2024
A ‘How-To’ Guide to Transforming the Media and Information Ecosystem
A ‘How-To’ Guide to Transforming the Media and Information Ecosystem
UN Global Principles on Information Integrity: A Missed Opportunity
UN Global Principles on Information Integrity: A Missed Opportunity
The Circuits of Information in the Year of Elections
The Circuits of Information in the Year of Elections
The Draghi Report: A View from the South
The Draghi Report: A View from the South
The Year Big Tech Came for Democracy
The Year Big Tech Came for Democracy
The UN Tax Treaty and Digital Justice Today
The UN Tax Treaty and Digital Justice Today
Big Tech from the South: Thinking Beyond Data Colonialism in Latin America
Big Tech from the South: Thinking Beyond Data Colonialism in Latin America
Statistical Sovereignty, Democracy and Big Tech: Challenges of Datafication for National States
Statistical Sovereignty, Democracy and Big Tech: Challenges of Datafication for National States
The Global Digital Compact is Here: What Now for Civil Society?
The Global Digital Compact is Here: What Now for Civil Society?
DataSyn October 2024 Issue
DataSyn October 2024 Issue
Algorithmic Shackles: Eroding Worker Autonomy in the Majority World
Algorithmic Shackles: Eroding Worker Autonomy in the Majority World
Developers vs. App Stores: A Case for Separation Remedies
Developers vs. App Stores: A Case for Separation Remedies
DataSyn September 2024 Issue
DataSyn September 2024 Issue
Global Digital Compact: Back-sliding to a Failed Free-market Playbook?
Global Digital Compact: Back-sliding to a Failed Free-market Playbook?
On Global Platforms and Local Capitalisms
On Global Platforms and Local Capitalisms
The Imperatives of Digital Governance Today
The Imperatives of Digital Governance Today
DataSyn August 2024 Issue
DataSyn August 2024 Issue
Man vs Machine: Whose AI Are We Talking About?
Man vs Machine: Whose AI Are We Talking About?
DataSyn July 2024 Issue
DataSyn July 2024 Issue
DMA, One Year On: Taking Stock of the EU’s Attempts to Rein In Big Tech
DMA, One Year On: Taking Stock of the EU’s Attempts to Rein In Big Tech
‘Competitiveness without Competition’: What EU’s Proposed Digital Economy Reboot Gets Wrong
‘Competitiveness without Competition’: What EU’s Proposed Digital Economy Reboot Gets Wrong
European Introspection Standing in the Way of Global Leadership
European Introspection Standing in the Way of Global Leadership
DataSyn June 2024 Issue
DataSyn June 2024 Issue
Soft Power Histrionics: Surveying the EU’s Global Gateway
Soft Power Histrionics: Surveying the EU’s Global Gateway
Championing an Industrial Policy for Public Good, Not Corporate Profits
Championing an Industrial Policy for Public Good, Not Corporate Profits
A Tale of Twin Transitions: Why EU’s Green and Digital Agendas are at Odds
A Tale of Twin Transitions: Why EU’s Green and Digital Agendas are at Odds
DataSyn May 2024 Issue
DataSyn May 2024 Issue
EcoMinassat Podcast
EcoMinassat Podcast
The Global Digital Compact We Need for People and the Planet
The Global Digital Compact We Need for People and the Planet
Labor and Artificial Intelligence: Emergent Frontiers of Struggle
Labor and Artificial Intelligence: Emergent Frontiers of Struggle
2024 May Day Special Issue - DataSyn
2024 May Day Special Issue - DataSyn
Reassessing Big Tech’s Impact and Disruptive Force in Africa’s Fintech Landscape
Reassessing Big Tech’s Impact and Disruptive Force in Africa’s Fintech Landscape
How Fintech Became the Gateway to Predatory Lending in Sub-Saharan Africa
How Fintech Became the Gateway to Predatory Lending in Sub-Saharan Africa
Towards Fairer Horizons: Cooperativist Solutions to Tackle Platform Capitalism
Towards Fairer Horizons: Cooperativist Solutions to Tackle Platform Capitalism
The Thiruvananthapuram Declaration on A New Innovation Ecosystem for Our Collective Digital Futures | IT for Change
The Thiruvananthapuram Declaration on A New Innovation Ecosystem for Our Collective Digital Futures | IT for Change
DataSyn Newsletter: March 2024
DataSyn Newsletter: March 2024
DataSyn Newsletter: Feb 2024
DataSyn Newsletter: Feb 2024
What Does Trade Have to Do with AI Regulation?
What Does Trade Have to Do with AI Regulation?
A New Colonialist Wave through Digital Trade Agreements
A New Colonialist Wave through Digital Trade Agreements
Uncle Sam and Big Tech: The End of a Love Affair?
Uncle Sam and Big Tech: The End of a Love Affair?
Owning Platform Cooperativism(s): With More Voices, Sans Tech Solutionism
Owning Platform Cooperativism(s): With More Voices, Sans Tech Solutionism
Big Tech and News Media in India: The Frenemies Who Control What We Read
Big Tech and News Media in India: The Frenemies Who Control What We Read
Right to Repair and the Fight against Planned Obsolescence
Right to Repair and the Fight against Planned Obsolescence
The Evolution of Big Tech Litigation
The Evolution of Big Tech Litigation
Decoding Meta’s Infrastructural Turn in Africa: Access with Strings
Decoding Meta’s Infrastructural Turn in Africa: Access with Strings
Dethroning the All-powerful AI: Developing Ethics for a Demystified AI
Dethroning the All-powerful AI: Developing Ethics for a Demystified AI
AI is Africa’s New Growth Mantra, but Can it Fix Development?
AI is Africa’s New Growth Mantra, but Can it Fix Development?
Feeding the World with More Data?
Feeding the World with More Data?
How Fintech Became the Gateway to Predatory Lending in Sub-Saharan Africa
How Fintech Became the Gateway to Predatory Lending in Sub-Saharan Africa
Responsible AI’s Inherent Trade-Offs: Let’s Talk About Resources, Rights and Power
Responsible AI’s Inherent Trade-Offs: Let’s Talk About Resources, Rights and Power
The New Silk Route: On China, Neo-colonialism and Cyber Extractivism in Africa
The New Silk Route: On China, Neo-colonialism and Cyber Extractivism in Africa
Who Learns and Who Profits in the Era of Artificial Intelligence?
Who Learns and Who Profits in the Era of Artificial Intelligence?
What’s Public about India’s Digital Public Infrastructures?
What’s Public about India’s Digital Public Infrastructures?
Generative AI and Education: Adopting a Critical Approach
Generative AI and Education: Adopting a Critical Approach
Missing the Target? Why the OECD Updates Fail to See the Full Picture on Digitalization
Missing the Target? Why the OECD Updates Fail to See the Full Picture on Digitalization
Flying the KITE High against Digital Colonialism: FOSS in the Era of EdTech
Flying the KITE High against Digital Colonialism: FOSS in the Era of EdTech
The Recipe for India’s Gatekeeper Regulation
The Recipe for India’s Gatekeeper Regulation
Pragmatic Deal or Tragic Compromise? Reflections on the UN SG’s Policy Brief on the GDC
Pragmatic Deal or Tragic Compromise? Reflections on the UN SG’s Policy Brief on the GDC
Governing Food System Data: Is the UN Committee on World Food Security Up to the Task?
Governing Food System Data: Is the UN Committee on World Food Security Up to the Task?
Meet the New Influencers: Artificial Intelligence
Meet the New Influencers: Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Data for Artificial Intelligence: Could This Be a Game Changer?
Artificial Data for Artificial Intelligence: Could This Be a Game Changer?
How Latin America Became a Theater of the US-China Tech War
How Latin America Became a Theater of the US-China Tech War
“Unions Raise the Floor, Co-ops Can Raise the Ceiling”: Erik Forman
“Unions Raise the Floor, Co-ops Can Raise the Ceiling”: Erik Forman
Labor and Platform Capital: Dispatches from Europe
Labor and Platform Capital: Dispatches from Europe
Lessons from the EU Platform Work Directive
Lessons from the EU Platform Work Directive
From Land to Data: Value-extraction in Smart Cities
From Land to Data: Value-extraction in Smart Cities
Crypto Imperialism and Financial Inclusion in Africa
Crypto Imperialism and Financial Inclusion in Africa
Towards the Construction of a Feminist Digital Justice Agenda: Challenges and Proposals
Towards the Construction of a Feminist Digital Justice Agenda: Challenges and Proposals
Digital Transformation for Gender Equality: Will ‘Inclusion’ and ‘Diversity’ Alone Get Us There?
Digital Transformation for Gender Equality: Will ‘Inclusion’ and ‘Diversity’ Alone Get Us There?
Making Platforms Work for Workers – Data Commons and Platform Co-ops
Making Platforms Work for Workers – Data Commons and Platform Co-ops
The Global Debate on Food Security Data: More Open-washing?
The Global Debate on Food Security Data: More Open-washing?
Gender-based Abuse on the Metaverse: The New Internet is Being Coded on a Toxic Palimpsest
Gender-based Abuse on the Metaverse: The New Internet is Being Coded on a Toxic Palimpsest
Platforms and the Risk of Precarity
Platforms and the Risk of Precarity
Who Run the World (of platforms)? Algorithmic Bosses and Workers’ Rights
Who Run the World (of platforms)? Algorithmic Bosses and Workers’ Rights
Platforms – The Origin Story
Platforms – The Origin Story
The Human Labor of Automation
The Human Labor of Automation
Big Tech Makes Political Choices About Our Data: We Should do the Same
Big Tech Makes Political Choices About Our Data: We Should do the Same
Digital Justice is a Matter of Environmental Justice. Or at least, it Should be
Digital Justice is a Matter of Environmental Justice. Or at least, it Should be
Dismantling Digital Enclosures: Reflections from the State of Big Tech
Dismantling Digital Enclosures: Reflections from the State of Big Tech
A Southern Perspective: The Missing Piece in ERFs
A Southern Perspective: The Missing Piece in ERFs
“The Best Platforms Remain Unwritten…:” Alistair Fraser on Data Grabs, Slow Computing and More
“The Best Platforms Remain Unwritten…:” Alistair Fraser on Data Grabs, Slow Computing and More
Platform Capitalism in Murky Financial Waters
Platform Capitalism in Murky Financial Waters
‘Mind the Gap’: Sexuality Education in the Digital Era in China
‘Mind the Gap’: Sexuality Education in the Digital Era in China
Big Tech is Ready to ‘Transform’ Food Systems, but for whose Benefit?
Big Tech is Ready to ‘Transform’ Food Systems, but for whose Benefit?
Great Men Simply Know Better: How the Twitter Takeover Exposes One of Big Tech’s Most Harmful Traits
Great Men Simply Know Better: How the Twitter Takeover Exposes One of Big Tech’s Most Harmful Traits
The Nth Rooms and the Ungovernable Digital Bodies
The Nth Rooms and the Ungovernable Digital Bodies
Resisting Patriarchal Logics of Digital ID Systems
Resisting Patriarchal Logics of Digital ID Systems
Fintech Wild West: Whose Duty to Act?
Fintech Wild West: Whose Duty to Act?
Fintech and Poverty in and Beyond the Pandemic
Fintech and Poverty in and Beyond the Pandemic
Capitalizing on Vulnerabilities: When Surveillance Capitalism Meets Mental Health
Capitalizing on Vulnerabilities: When Surveillance Capitalism Meets Mental Health
Artificial Intelligence and the Feminist Decolonial Imagination
Artificial Intelligence and the Feminist Decolonial Imagination
Time for Upgrade: Why Competition Law is Not Enough for the Platform Economy
Time for Upgrade: Why Competition Law is Not Enough for the Platform Economy
Feminist Responses to Technology-Facilitated Violence
Feminist Responses to Technology-Facilitated Violence
Davos 2022 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Amay Korjan and Avantika Tiwari
Davos 2022 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Amay Korjan and Avantika Tiwari
The Assetization of our Social Life- Kean Birch
The Assetization of our Social Life- Kean Birch
Rescuing Our Common Agenda from the Post-democratic Abyss
Rescuing Our Common Agenda from the Post-democratic Abyss
A Platformed Response to Hate Speech Against Women
A Platformed Response to Hate Speech Against Women
Feminist Re-imagining of Platform Planet | Special Issue
Feminist Re-imagining of Platform Planet | Special Issue
Protecting Dissent
Protecting Dissent
Social Relations under Surveillance Capitalism: Is Solidarity Still Possible?
Social Relations under Surveillance Capitalism: Is Solidarity Still Possible?
Digging Deeper: Assessing Big Tech’s Capture of the Internet’s Infrastructure
Digging Deeper: Assessing Big Tech’s Capture of the Internet’s Infrastructure
“I feel empowered…but you have to have a thick skin”
“I feel empowered…but you have to have a thick skin”
What Is Feminist Digital (In)justice?
What Is Feminist Digital (In)justice?
Smart Cities in India: Of Data Governance and Democratic Deficits
Smart Cities in India: Of Data Governance and Democratic Deficits
Putting Users Back in Control of Car Data to Fuel Innovations
Putting Users Back in Control of Car Data to Fuel Innovations
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Worker-Led Alternatives: A Line of Hope for New Platform Futures
Worker-Led Alternatives: A Line of Hope for New Platform Futures
Fixing Digital Capitalism: Learning from China’s Playbook
Fixing Digital Capitalism: Learning from China’s Playbook
Data Sovereignty and Alternative Development Models
Data Sovereignty and Alternative Development Models
Why Metaphors for Data Matter
Why Metaphors for Data Matter
Why India Needs a Legal Instrument to Tackle Online Hate
Why India Needs a Legal Instrument to Tackle Online Hate
Recognizing People's Sovereignty Over Data
Recognizing People's Sovereignty Over Data
Choosing Public Good Over Corporate Power
Choosing Public Good Over Corporate Power
Beyond Profit and Efficiency
Beyond Profit and Efficiency
Opportunities for Strategic Intervention
Opportunities for Strategic Intervention
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Memeing Democracy
The Exception Cannot Be Made the Norm: Covid-19 and the Right to Health
The Exception Cannot Be Made the Norm: Covid-19 and the Right to Health
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Cyber Safe Girl: How Not to Write a Cyber Safety e-Book
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Stream the Bot Populi Podcast
Seven Questions Unpacking Cancel Culture
Seven Questions Unpacking Cancel Culture
The Valley and the Virus
The Valley and the Virus
Deep Unlearning? AI and Africa’s Struggling Public Institutions
Deep Unlearning? AI and Africa’s Struggling Public Institutions
Trump and CDA Section 230: The End of an Internet Exception?
Trump and CDA Section 230: The End of an Internet Exception?
Networked Desolation in Indonesia’s Platform Tourism Industry
Networked Desolation in Indonesia’s Platform Tourism Industry
A 3-Point Agenda for Platform Workers; as if the South Matters
A 3-Point Agenda for Platform Workers; as if the South Matters
How Public Sector Workers and Unions can Shape the Digital Economy
How Public Sector Workers and Unions can Shape the Digital Economy
Beauty and the Platform Economy
Beauty and the Platform Economy
‘Crowds as Code’ in the Global Data Value Chain
‘Crowds as Code’ in the Global Data Value Chain
Articulating a Feminist Response to Online Hate Speech: First Steps
Articulating a Feminist Response to Online Hate Speech: First Steps
Avoiding the Trap of the Singular Data Story
Avoiding the Trap of the Singular Data Story
Imagining a Feminist Future of Work in the Global South
Imagining a Feminist Future of Work in the Global South
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