If you want to ask Euronews to report about our quest to get Mastodon onto the European Commission web site footer and remove X:

https://www.euronews.com/contact

"I think you should report on this Mastodon thread urging the commission to not promote a hostile algorithmically distorted social media platform whose owner wants to break up the European union and participates in extreme right election rallies in Germany and UK https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115762395377663131"

#decolonialization

@EUCommission lovely! You've included Mastodon on the page for the Directorate-General for Communication!

Now we just need you to add it for the general footer and we have half of our #ChristmasMiracle as put forward by @_elena in https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115762395377663131

#goEurope #decolonialization 🇪🇺

When Blaise Metreweli, the newly appointed Chief of MI6, addressed the nation in her inaugural speech, she did not simply outline the threats of espionage or cyberwarfare. Instead, she mapped a new, unsettling terrain—one where the gravitational center of global power is shifting away from nation-states and toward the sprawling dominions of technology corporations and the individuals who helm them.
#decolonialization

https://biztechweekly.com/mi6-chief-blaise-metreweli-warns-tech-giants-threaten-global-security-and-state-power-shift/

"Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too"

https://aeon.co/essays/generative-ai-has-access-to-a-small-slice-of-human-knowledge

#GenAI #LLM #decolonialization #knowledge

"Recently, the notion of artificial intelligence for development (AI4D) has been mobilized by various actors in the global South and North. We identify five analytical categories to help us understand the different and often contested perspectives on AI4D. They are (a) a developmentalist framework that emphasizes discourses around modernity and progress through a technoliberal lens of ‘catching up’; (b) an economic development framework taken up by African states, private sector and civil society, highlighting a positive and more future-looking outlook on AI's potential for development; (c) an international policy framework tied to globally agreed on policies such as the Sustainable Development Goals; (d) a colonial and extractivist framework that articulates how AI4D reinforces old processes of oppression in new ways; and (e) decolonial AI discourses grounded in Latin American, African and Indigenous approaches. Our critical review of literature on AI4D and related expressions shows that while the notion applies broadly to the global South, the majority of publications use the term in reference to AI development on the African continent. This commentary enriches our understanding of the plurality of meanings, where they come from, what they do, and what they leave unaddressed."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241304678

#AI #AI4D #GlobalSouth #Africa #Developmentalism #Decolonialization #SustainableDevelopment #Extractivism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsLLgKDfaOo

Possibly a minor audience for this but Sami Abu Shamays talking about #decolonialization of #musicology with heavy reference to #Arabic #music. Well worth the time if you've got your foot in music as a well as #politics