Surveillance in the Majority World Network
@surveillancemw.bsky.social
Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network aims to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Northern / Western discourses and practices.
https://surveillance-majority-world.net
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Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | July 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
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July 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
📣Surveillance in the Majority world Network's newsletter is out!
📣 Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter for June 2025 is out!
Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | June 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
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June 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
📣 Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter for June 2025 is out!
Surveillance in the Majority World's May Newsletter is out! featuring:
- Our attendance report of the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2025, Lusaka, Zambia! hashtag#DRIF25
- Altman's Worldcoin Ordered to Delete Biometric Data in Kenya Over Privacy Breach
- Our attendance report of the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2025, Lusaka, Zambia! hashtag#DRIF25
- Altman's Worldcoin Ordered to Delete Biometric Data in Kenya Over Privacy Breach
Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | May 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
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May 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Surveillance in the Majority World's May Newsletter is out! featuring:
- Our attendance report of the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2025, Lusaka, Zambia! hashtag#DRIF25
- Altman's Worldcoin Ordered to Delete Biometric Data in Kenya Over Privacy Breach
- Our attendance report of the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2025, Lusaka, Zambia! hashtag#DRIF25
- Altman's Worldcoin Ordered to Delete Biometric Data in Kenya Over Privacy Breach
📣Our April Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter is out!
In this issue, you will read about:
- Morocco’s Surveillance Infrastructure Expands Ahead of Sports Mega-Events
- Indian Income Tax Bill 2025: Expanding Digital Search & Seizure Powers
In this issue, you will read about:
- Morocco’s Surveillance Infrastructure Expands Ahead of Sports Mega-Events
- Indian Income Tax Bill 2025: Expanding Digital Search & Seizure Powers
Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Apr 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
surveillance-majority-world.net
April 21, 2025 at 8:42 AM
📣Our April Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter is out!
In this issue, you will read about:
- Morocco’s Surveillance Infrastructure Expands Ahead of Sports Mega-Events
- Indian Income Tax Bill 2025: Expanding Digital Search & Seizure Powers
In this issue, you will read about:
- Morocco’s Surveillance Infrastructure Expands Ahead of Sports Mega-Events
- Indian Income Tax Bill 2025: Expanding Digital Search & Seizure Powers
📣Surveillance in the Majority World March newsletter is out!
In this issue, you will read about:
1- New Book: Digital Surveillance in Africa by @phatcontroller.bsky.social & Admire Mare
2- Surveillance & Society Journal’s Dialogue Section on Authoritarian Surveillance (@survstudiesnet.bsky.social)
In this issue, you will read about:
1- New Book: Digital Surveillance in Africa by @phatcontroller.bsky.social & Admire Mare
2- Surveillance & Society Journal’s Dialogue Section on Authoritarian Surveillance (@survstudiesnet.bsky.social)
Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Mar 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
surveillance-majority-world.net
March 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
📣Surveillance in the Majority World March newsletter is out!
In this issue, you will read about:
1- New Book: Digital Surveillance in Africa by @phatcontroller.bsky.social & Admire Mare
2- Surveillance & Society Journal’s Dialogue Section on Authoritarian Surveillance (@survstudiesnet.bsky.social)
In this issue, you will read about:
1- New Book: Digital Surveillance in Africa by @phatcontroller.bsky.social & Admire Mare
2- Surveillance & Society Journal’s Dialogue Section on Authoritarian Surveillance (@survstudiesnet.bsky.social)
📣Our February newsletter is out!
Read more on indigenous statistics, policing a postcolonial city, the political economy of smart surveillance in Curitiba, Brazil, Morocco’s AI-Enhanced governance of borders, predatory data & call for proposals for Africa Spyware & Digital Surveillance!
Read more on indigenous statistics, policing a postcolonial city, the political economy of smart surveillance in Curitiba, Brazil, Morocco’s AI-Enhanced governance of borders, predatory data & call for proposals for Africa Spyware & Digital Surveillance!
Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Feb 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
surveillance-majority-world.net
February 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
📣Our February newsletter is out!
Read more on indigenous statistics, policing a postcolonial city, the political economy of smart surveillance in Curitiba, Brazil, Morocco’s AI-Enhanced governance of borders, predatory data & call for proposals for Africa Spyware & Digital Surveillance!
Read more on indigenous statistics, policing a postcolonial city, the political economy of smart surveillance in Curitiba, Brazil, Morocco’s AI-Enhanced governance of borders, predatory data & call for proposals for Africa Spyware & Digital Surveillance!
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Polisky Dictatorsky
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
December 18, 2024 at 12:15 PM
Polisky Dictatorsky
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
Yesterday we finished another great season of the virtual workshop! Thank you all for joining!!
While we prepare the Spring season, we want to let you know we will be organizing another in-person conference over the summer! The CfP will be out soon. Stay tuned!
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If you are a West African early career scholar in the US or at home, check out these funding and professional development opportunities.
This is open to West African scholars across disciplines.
Deadline: Feb 23, 2025
Learn more & apply here: www.westafricanresearchassociation.org/fellowships/
This is open to West African scholars across disciplines.
Deadline: Feb 23, 2025
Learn more & apply here: www.westafricanresearchassociation.org/fellowships/
January 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
If you are a West African early career scholar in the US or at home, check out these funding and professional development opportunities.
This is open to West African scholars across disciplines.
Deadline: Feb 23, 2025
Learn more & apply here: www.westafricanresearchassociation.org/fellowships/
This is open to West African scholars across disciplines.
Deadline: Feb 23, 2025
Learn more & apply here: www.westafricanresearchassociation.org/fellowships/
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How do autocrats stay in power?
Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
January 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
How do autocrats stay in power?
Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
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Highly recommended new series in @thecontinent.org on looted #CulturalHeritage & #colonialism:
"The Museum of Stolen History", curated by
@shola-lawal.bsky.social, art direction by @wynonamutisi.bsky.social - Part 1 on #NgwiNdem from #Cameroon, pp. 19-22:
www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
"The Museum of Stolen History", curated by
@shola-lawal.bsky.social, art direction by @wynonamutisi.bsky.social - Part 1 on #NgwiNdem from #Cameroon, pp. 19-22:
www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
January 25, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Highly recommended new series in @thecontinent.org on looted #CulturalHeritage & #colonialism:
"The Museum of Stolen History", curated by
@shola-lawal.bsky.social, art direction by @wynonamutisi.bsky.social - Part 1 on #NgwiNdem from #Cameroon, pp. 19-22:
www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
"The Museum of Stolen History", curated by
@shola-lawal.bsky.social, art direction by @wynonamutisi.bsky.social - Part 1 on #NgwiNdem from #Cameroon, pp. 19-22:
www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...
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Fascinating piece on the problems faced by one of #China's Belt and Road post- #smartcity / free port projects in #Pakistan... empire-building isn't easy.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
What went wrong with ‘Pakistan’s Dubai’? – inside the Chinese initiative that is prompting terror attacks
The small port city of Gwadar has a huge new airport funded by China, but local suspicion of Beijing’s true intentions threatens to wreck the project
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Fascinating piece on the problems faced by one of #China's Belt and Road post- #smartcity / free port projects in #Pakistan... empire-building isn't easy.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees holds a webinar on the "Threat of AI and Technology to Immigrant Justice" on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 9:45am to 11:00am PST. Register at the link.
The Threat of AI and Technology to Immigrant Justice
As technological innovation accelerates, so too do its potential harms, particularly for immigrant communities. AI and tech tools are increasingly being weaponized in surveillance, enforcement, detent...
www.gcir.org
January 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees holds a webinar on the "Threat of AI and Technology to Immigrant Justice" on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 9:45am to 11:00am PST. Register at the link.
Our January newsletter is out!
Read about Syrian surveillance revelation after Assad's fall, India’s draft data protection rules, Latin America’s 2024 overview of AI Integration, @oiioxford.bsky.social's Global Southing Internet workshop & New OA Book on Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries.
Read about Syrian surveillance revelation after Assad's fall, India’s draft data protection rules, Latin America’s 2024 overview of AI Integration, @oiioxford.bsky.social's Global Southing Internet workshop & New OA Book on Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries.
Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Jan 2024
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
surveillance-majority-world.net
January 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Our January newsletter is out!
Read about Syrian surveillance revelation after Assad's fall, India’s draft data protection rules, Latin America’s 2024 overview of AI Integration, @oiioxford.bsky.social's Global Southing Internet workshop & New OA Book on Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries.
Read about Syrian surveillance revelation after Assad's fall, India’s draft data protection rules, Latin America’s 2024 overview of AI Integration, @oiioxford.bsky.social's Global Southing Internet workshop & New OA Book on Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries.
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A reminder to join our panel at the International Public Policy Conference in Chiang Mai/Thailand this July! The abstract submission deadline is 31 Jan ⏰ The conference has a thematic focus on the Global South and I look very much forward to all the amazing discussions!
Join our panel on "critical perspectives on global AI policy and governance" at the International Public Policy Conference in Chiang Mai/Thailand! The call for papers is below! The deadline for submitting abstracts of 300-500 words is 31 January 2025.
IPPA - List of Panels
www.ippapublicpolicy.org
January 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A reminder to join our panel at the International Public Policy Conference in Chiang Mai/Thailand this July! The abstract submission deadline is 31 Jan ⏰ The conference has a thematic focus on the Global South and I look very much forward to all the amazing discussions!
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🤖 Register and submit your abstract for the two-days workshop at the @oiioxford.bsky.social on:
"Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop" organised by @jonasvalente.bsky.social
🗓️10:00, Tuesday 25 March - 17:00, Wednesday 26 March, 2025
👉 www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
"Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop" organised by @jonasvalente.bsky.social
🗓️10:00, Tuesday 25 March - 17:00, Wednesday 26 March, 2025
👉 www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
OII | Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop
This workshop aims to facilitate dialogues between UK scholars and approaches from the Global South in the field of Internet and Data Studies.
www.oii.ox.ac.uk
January 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
🤖 Register and submit your abstract for the two-days workshop at the @oiioxford.bsky.social on:
"Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop" organised by @jonasvalente.bsky.social
🗓️10:00, Tuesday 25 March - 17:00, Wednesday 26 March, 2025
👉 www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
"Global Southing Internet, Data and AI Studies Workshop" organised by @jonasvalente.bsky.social
🗓️10:00, Tuesday 25 March - 17:00, Wednesday 26 March, 2025
👉 www.oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Really excited to see that my book "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024) has made it into ThisWeekinAfrica's list of "18 books to read from 2024" - and in such wonderful company!
thisweekinafrica.substack.com/p/18-books-t...
thisweekinafrica.substack.com/p/18-books-t...
18 books to read from 2024
Check out these exciting books about Africa
thisweekinafrica.substack.com
January 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Really excited to see that my book "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024) has made it into ThisWeekinAfrica's list of "18 books to read from 2024" - and in such wonderful company!
thisweekinafrica.substack.com/p/18-books-t...
thisweekinafrica.substack.com/p/18-books-t...
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The sad thing is, this H1-B dust-up distracts from the fact that tech companies can (and are) increasingly outsource the vast majority of these jobs to workers who never have to step foot on American soil. ScaleAI is the most important company no one is talking about.
www.inc.com/sam-blum/sca...
www.inc.com/sam-blum/sca...
Lawsuit Calls Scale AI ‘the Sordid Underbelly of the Generative AI Industry’
CEO Alexandr Wang is named in the suit, which cites emotional distress for contractors who worked on a self-harm-prevention project for Meta.
www.inc.com
December 28, 2024 at 6:07 PM
The sad thing is, this H1-B dust-up distracts from the fact that tech companies can (and are) increasingly outsource the vast majority of these jobs to workers who never have to step foot on American soil. ScaleAI is the most important company no one is talking about.
www.inc.com/sam-blum/sca...
www.inc.com/sam-blum/sca...
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Haven't read the Eye of the Master, but I gather it's largely historical? Trying to think about why gen ai, now, for what ends, and finding some comfort in Midnight Notes. Especially "On Africa and self-reproducing automata"
On Africa and Self-Reproducing Automata - George Caffentzis
Midnight Notes' autonomist Marxist considerations on self-reproducing automata in Africa.
libcom.org
December 29, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Haven't read the Eye of the Master, but I gather it's largely historical? Trying to think about why gen ai, now, for what ends, and finding some comfort in Midnight Notes. Especially "On Africa and self-reproducing automata"
Join our team! 🤗
Are you a graduate student interested in surveillance studies? We need an enthusiastic bookworm to help us compile an online library of publications on surveillance in the Majority World. Please follow the link for applications. We have a small budget to compensate for the hours.
Are you a graduate student interested in surveillance studies? We need an enthusiastic bookworm to help us compile an online library of publications on surveillance in the Majority World. Please follow the link for applications. We have a small budget to compensate for the hours.
Join our team! – Surveillance in the Majority World
Are you a graduate student interested in surveillance studies? We need an enthusiastic bookworm to help us compile an online library of publications on surveillance in the Majority World.
surveillance-majority-world.net
December 19, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Join our team! 🤗
Are you a graduate student interested in surveillance studies? We need an enthusiastic bookworm to help us compile an online library of publications on surveillance in the Majority World. Please follow the link for applications. We have a small budget to compensate for the hours.
Are you a graduate student interested in surveillance studies? We need an enthusiastic bookworm to help us compile an online library of publications on surveillance in the Majority World. Please follow the link for applications. We have a small budget to compensate for the hours.
Our first newsletter is up!
Read about some cool new tools, the false promise of biometrics by @lhreports.bsky.social, automation on the move by @algorithmwatch.bsky.social, listen to a podcast on Afrotopia, learn about India-Isreal AI weapon systems collaboration, & maybe decide to join our team!
Read about some cool new tools, the false promise of biometrics by @lhreports.bsky.social, automation on the move by @algorithmwatch.bsky.social, listen to a podcast on Afrotopia, learn about India-Isreal AI weapon systems collaboration, & maybe decide to join our team!
Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Dec 2024 – Surveillance in the Majority World
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
surveillance-majority-world.net
December 19, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Our first newsletter is up!
Read about some cool new tools, the false promise of biometrics by @lhreports.bsky.social, automation on the move by @algorithmwatch.bsky.social, listen to a podcast on Afrotopia, learn about India-Isreal AI weapon systems collaboration, & maybe decide to join our team!
Read about some cool new tools, the false promise of biometrics by @lhreports.bsky.social, automation on the move by @algorithmwatch.bsky.social, listen to a podcast on Afrotopia, learn about India-Isreal AI weapon systems collaboration, & maybe decide to join our team!
The mass diagnoses have been made as part of lawsuit being brought against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and Samasource Kenya, an outsourcing company that carried out content moderation for Meta using workers from across Africa... from @theguardian.com
More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators diagnosed with severe PTSD
Exclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2024 at 3:04 PM
The mass diagnoses have been made as part of lawsuit being brought against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and Samasource Kenya, an outsourcing company that carried out content moderation for Meta using workers from across Africa... from @theguardian.com
We had the first Majority World track at the Surveillance Studies Conference and it was a great success! Soon we will announce more exciting programs for 2025 😎
2024 in review.
SSN and Surveillance & Society have had a great year! This was the 22nd Volume of S&S, and we also ran our 10th international conference.
Let's start with Surveillance & Society. Under @torinmonahan.bsky.social's brilliant stewardship, we published 4 issues of the journal...
SSN and Surveillance & Society have had a great year! This was the 22nd Volume of S&S, and we also ran our 10th international conference.
Let's start with Surveillance & Society. Under @torinmonahan.bsky.social's brilliant stewardship, we published 4 issues of the journal...
December 17, 2024 at 9:08 PM
We had the first Majority World track at the Surveillance Studies Conference and it was a great success! Soon we will announce more exciting programs for 2025 😎
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[NEWS]: Website is live. planetaryai.net
Planetary AI is a collaborative project mapping the #value chains of #AI from the Majority World perspective
1st phase examines the value chains of #data #work The 2nd phase will study materiality and environmental cost of AI.
Planetary AI is a collaborative project mapping the #value chains of #AI from the Majority World perspective
1st phase examines the value chains of #data #work The 2nd phase will study materiality and environmental cost of AI.
Planetary AI
planetaryai.net
December 12, 2024 at 4:29 PM
[NEWS]: Website is live. planetaryai.net
Planetary AI is a collaborative project mapping the #value chains of #AI from the Majority World perspective
1st phase examines the value chains of #data #work The 2nd phase will study materiality and environmental cost of AI.
Planetary AI is a collaborative project mapping the #value chains of #AI from the Majority World perspective
1st phase examines the value chains of #data #work The 2nd phase will study materiality and environmental cost of AI.
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Critical ICT4D written by a wonderful group of scholars and edited by @silviahedley.bsky.social and me is out and it's open-access with 11 chapters that reflect, problematise, and construct alternative trajectories for information and communication technologies in development contexts 🥳🎉So excited!
Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Develop
The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing, and researching Information and Communication Technologies
www.taylorfrancis.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Critical ICT4D written by a wonderful group of scholars and edited by @silviahedley.bsky.social and me is out and it's open-access with 11 chapters that reflect, problematise, and construct alternative trajectories for information and communication technologies in development contexts 🥳🎉So excited!
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🚨Are you a person on the move interested in #BorderTech? Apply for our THIRD annual fellowship application with @migrationtechmonitor.com and @refugeelawlab.bsky.social!
Application materials (in whatever language!) are due December 31st 2024 www.migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfell...
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Application materials (in whatever language!) are due December 31st 2024 www.migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfell...
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December 5, 2024 at 8:50 PM
🚨Are you a person on the move interested in #BorderTech? Apply for our THIRD annual fellowship application with @migrationtechmonitor.com and @refugeelawlab.bsky.social!
Application materials (in whatever language!) are due December 31st 2024 www.migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfell...
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Application materials (in whatever language!) are due December 31st 2024 www.migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfell...
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