Bot Populi @PopuliBot
An alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. botpopuli.net Joined June 2019-
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Read the full edition here: datasyn.substack.com/p/putting-pand… #AI #AIGovernance #DigitalJustice #GlobalSouth #TechPolicy #Geopolitics #DigitalEconomy #WHO #TechnologyAndPower #TrumpAdministration #TradeAgreements
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➡️ Rishabh Bailey and Prapasiri Suttisome on how Trump's "reciprocal trade" carry clauses could block developing countries from choosing their own internet infrastructure. botpopuli.net/trumps-agreeme…
September saw the Global South assert itself as a strong voice for multilateralism, with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS, and the UN General Assembly summits all drawing significant attention in quick succession.
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Adoption of opaque governance AI-agents by peripheral governments enables new forms of on-shoring governance by central govts. They can be a key vector for the emergence of new empires. An essay I published @PopuliBot in Feb cautioning about this trend-> botpopuli.net/digital-govern…
Interface power -> Governments are entering the grayzone...and aren't disclosing how the LLM processing is developed or by whom. More on the figure in a recent paper co-authored with Manuel Castells-> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…
Read the full piece on Bot Populi: botpopuli.net/the-road-not-t… #AIGovernance #DigitalTrade #GlobalSouth #DataRights #TechPolicy
and the resources. Abhineet Nayyar argues that a South-centric repositioning could offer a better alternative: treating data as a shared resource rather than a private one, backed by public compute infrastructure and real cooperation between Global South economies.
The AI race is reshaping global power, trade, and technology. But what does this race mean for the Global South? Embedding existing power asymmetry further, the Global North controls the data, the chips, and the rules, while the South is mostly left to supply the labor
➡️ Abhineet Nayyar considers what the growing fragmentation of the global AI landscape means for the Global South — and how this moment could create openings to pursue more autonomous pathways. botpopuli.net/the-road-not-t… Read the full issue here: datasyn.substack.com/p/the-rise-and…
The shutting down of Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) signals the end of an era. AMT pioneered home-based data annotation & other micro-tasks, providing the labor force that ultimately made AI systems possible. Yet, it is these systems that are now rendering such work obsolete.
It asks what becomes visible when we understand today’s digital order from the perspective of the Global South — and what gets obscured when we frame it as a return to feudalism. Read the full article by Rudraksh Lakra on Bot Populi: botpopuli.net/capitalism-rew…
Has capitalism really given way to “technofeudalism”? Looking beyond the dominant narratives from the Global North, our latest article examines how digital platforms are embedded in longer histories of imperialism, unequal exchange, labor exploitation, and data extraction.
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