Surveillance in the Majority World Network
@surveillancemw.bsky.social
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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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- South to South AI Accountability CoLab [Civil Society Program]
- Why Latin America Is Unlikely to Mirror EU AI Regulation [News Analysis]
- US Issues Warning Over Zambia’s Cybersecurity Law [Policy Alert]
- Biometric Data in Gaza: Coercive Conditions for Aid Access [Advocacy Statement]
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- Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D): A Contested Notion [Research Article]
- Uninvited Protagonists: The Networked Agency of Venezuelan Platform Data Workers [Research Article]
- ID System Challenges for Refugees in Kenya [Research Report]
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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
Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | May 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
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> The debates on ‘Silicon Savannah’:
“The state as auteur: Timing digitisation in Africa’s Silicon Savannah” by @ayonadatta.bsky.social & @fennaimara.bsky.social
- De Gruyter Handbook of Digital Criminology: An Interdisciplinary Guide
Edited by Mareile Kaufmann & @heidimorklomell.bsky.social
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The debates on ‘Silicon Savannah’:
“Making sense of funding inequalities in the venture capital space: a state of the art review paper with views from Africa”
& “Mapping the uneven financial geographies of venture capital in ‘Silicon Savannah’, Kenya” by Ben Mkalama & @econgeo.bsky.social
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- Digital Public Infrastructures: A Critical Inquiry by @bulletprooflama.bsky.social
- An Intellectual History of Digital Colonialism
- Special Issue: Latin American Critical Data Studies (editorial by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social)
- USA Disappeared Tracker: A Data-Driven Call to Action
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📣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
Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Apr 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
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7- Research Article: Algorithmic Bureaucracy in Peru by Diego Cerna Aragon and Luis García
8- The Surveillance Footprint in Africa Threatens Privacy and Data Protection
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3- Activists at RightsCon Address U.S. Retreat from Digital Rights
4- Paper: EU’s Pre-Criminalization of African Migrants Through AI and Surveillance by Loren B Landau
5- India to Host the Next Global AI Summit
6- Israeli Military Developing AI System Using Palestinian Surveillance Data
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📣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)
Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Mar 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
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📣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!
Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Feb 2025
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
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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!
Teaser flyer for the conference. Includes location (King's College, London, and date, 23-24 June)
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wunpini.bsky.social
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/
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anjaneundorf.bsky.social
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. 🧵👇
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jensnotroff.com
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...
Opening page of the "Museum of Stolen History" series in The Continent, showing the drawing of a mostly empty museum showcase with just one object: the wooden sculpture of Ngwi Ndem on the upper left shelf.
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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.
Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter | Jan 2024
We share research/stories/podcasts that caught our attention.
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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!
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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
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maxgallien.bsky.social
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...
18 books to read from 2024
Check out these exciting books about Africa
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catherinebracy.com
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.

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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.
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