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Anthropologist of internet infrastructure and cloud computing | coffee, climbing, mãe 🏔️👩🏼💻☕️ | Affiliate @MCTDCambridge @Cambridge_Uni | PhD @oiioxford | currently ✨ Head of Global Team Digital ARTICLE19 | toots personal, rest political #internet #internetgovernance #anthropology #technology #cloud #cloudcomputing #STS #infrastructurestudies #technopolitical #foss
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Europeans!
If you think you're using open-source and not suporting (U.S.) corporate services, please do a double check here on our -anonymous- check page.
After 20 years of internet and thousands of european IT companies, there's still a lot to do to bring up european services in focus.
Luckily the @nlnet and others are doing it's utter best and things are comming up bit by bit.
Be sure to support european services when you can, it's needed. 😊
When Trump sanctioned the ICC, Microsoft cut off services to the court. Now imagine our government, hospitals, and power grid running on Microsoft Cloud. Digital self-determination isn't abstract—it's about whether our society functions when geopolitics shifts. #CloudRisks #DigitalResilience
I wrote a shorter piece looking at the twin dangers of framing cloud questions through the lenses of competition and sovereignty here — based on the report
Worried about our reliance on the #cloud? Yeah me too, but not because of #privacy or #surveillance:
My report for the critical infra lab about the deeper harms of cloudification of internet governance is out!
https://www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CIL010.pdf
Building on years of advocacy in technical forums, we're bringing human rights expertise to ITU, IEEE and industry governance bodies, where our digital are decided.
The physical foundations of our internet shouldn't be controlled by the (cloud) behemoths of big tech. #DigitalRights
📢 NEW INITIATIVE: As tech giants claim ownership of subsea cables and satellite networks, who will protect our digital rights? @article19.bsky.social team digital launches "Wired and Orbited" to ensure internet infrastructure remains open and resilient for all.
In the depths of the ocean and high above the Earth’s atmosphere, a quiet revolution is reshaping the internet as we know it. Far from the public eye, the physical infrastructure that powers our digital lives — the subsea cables that carry 99% of global internet traffic and the rapidly multiplying satellites orbiting our planet […]
Wow, the German government spends 197.7 million euro on Microsoft licenses. Think how many open source developers you can pay with that much money. https://www.heise.de/news/Bund-Lizenzkosten-fuer-Microsoft-auf-hohem-Niveau-insgesamt-neuer-Rekord-9744319.html
I wish this article came out before I wrote this blog post: https://tarakiyee.com/lets-talk-about-open-source-in-munich-and-everywhere-else/
Lokjo - a European online map
Tara Tarakiyee