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Africa: AI Is Fuelling the 'Digital Colonisation' of Africa, Warns UN Scientist: [RFI] The United Nations has launched its first global panel on artificial intelligence, as concerns grow that the technology could deepen global inequalities - particularly in Africa, where systems are largely imported after being shaped elsewhere. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRtl5D #Africa #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalColonisation #GlobalInequality #UNScience

Dave Lane

🇳🇿Feb 15, 2025

Huh, who could've seen this coming? https://ioplus.nl/en/posts/trump-has-free-rein-over-dutch-government-data #digitalSovereignty #totalTechDependence #digitalColonisation

Trump has free rein over Dutch government data

The Netherlands relies heavily on American IT service providers such as Microsoft, Google and Amazon for the storage of government data.

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Strypey Feb 6, 2025

"... there is a rich ecosystem of tools and services which could relatively rapidly, with minimal investment, be moulded into a credible alternative to the monopolies, and it would address their inherent structural and cultural flaws, like digital colonisation and data sovereignty. What we need now is a clear plan that the Ministry of Education can resource to pilot that ‘Third Way’."

@lightweight, 2025

https://community.iridescent.nz/t/third-way-better-digital-technology-in-nz-schools/139

#education #EdTech #MinistryOfEducation #DigitalColonisation

Third Way - better Digital Technology in NZ schools

In light of this ambitious far-reaching report from the Danish government’s expert digital tech advisory group, I want to develop a proposal for the NZ Ministry of Education to develop a viable ‘Third Way’, alongside the current duopoly of US-based BigTech monopolies that completely own the digital technology landscape in schools right now. I have previously provided a sketch (with supporting materials) describing a proven ‘different’ and, I think, better approach to digital technology in educa...

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Dave Lane

🇳🇿Aug 21, 2023

How #Copyleft licenses (like the #GPL) and #LibreSoftware aka #FOSS aka #FreeSoftware can help us all avoid #DigitalColonisation by proprietary US Big Tech & protect our #DigitalSovereignty via the founder of #NextCloud https://video.resolutions.it/w/4d5c5b1d-9613-4201-8d55-9e7906f42518 We need to break the cycle we're currently in. It's expensive, disempowering, & *brittle*. And it's unfit for purpose.

#FOSSBack: Frank Karlitschek - How GPL and Free Software can help Europe regain Digital Sovereignty

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Dave Lane

🇳🇿Nov 24, 2022

@joncounts I appreciate that, Jon, thanks. And yes. I reckon we could easily save a $billion/year on gov't IT expenditure alone, and much more beside by private industry... and be in control of our own data and digital destiny... at present we've got this:
- https://davelane.nz/mshostage and
- https://davelane.nz/procurement and, in education
- https://davelane.nz/explainer-digitech-risks-school-boards #digitalColonisation #lockIn #dataHeldHostage

New Zealand: dependence on the Microsoft Corporation

Anyone in business should be familiar with an old truth: if you build your business so that it depends on a single supplier's product, that you can't get anywhere else, you don't actually have a busin

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