1/5 What does #decolonising the digital rights field mean for the participants of the process led by @[email protected]
& @[email protected], and what does #criminalisation have to do with it? #DigitalRights 🧵

2/5 Technology deepens #criminalisation, automating #surveillance, border #policing and control. A safer future demands #decolonising - starting with our own field.

https://digitalfreedomfund.org/digital-criminalisation-how-big-data-technology-police-irregular-migration/

Digital Criminalisation: How Big Data & Technology Police Irregular Migration - Digital Freedom Fund

“The arms industries are saying: ‘This is a security problem, so buy my weapons, buy my drones, buy my surveillance system.’”  – Ozelm Durmiel, Member of European Parliament In December 2021, the Guardian published an investigation on the hundreds of millions of euro that the EU and its member states…

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3/5 Technology is propelling criminalisation of historically marginalised communities. Many such as @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] are already organising to resist against the harmful use of tech.
🎧4/5 As part of our decolonising process, we organised peer learning sessions, including one on Abolitionist Tech and visions from the global south with @[email protected]
Thenmozhi Soundararajan from @[email protected]
and @[email protected]. Audio summary ➡️ https://vimeo.com/767996587/3d197f730c
Abolitionist Tech and Visions from the Global South - Decolonising the Digital Rights Field in Europe

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5/5 The decolonising process for the digital rights field aims to put together a multiyear programme to better our capacity to resist digital criminalisation and create a safer future for all.

Read more: https://digitalfreedomfund.org/decolonising-digital-rights-why-it-matters-and-where-do-we-start/

Graphics @[email protected] @[email protected]📽️by Alice Z Jones

Decolonising Digital Rights: Why It Matters and Where Do We Start? - Digital Freedom Fund

This speech was given by DFF director, Nani Jansen Reventlow, on 9 October as the keynote for the 2020 Anthropology + Technology Conference. The power structures underlying centuries of exploitation by one group of another are still here. Besides the fact that we, in reality, still have over 60 colonised…

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