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The Green Web Foundation tackles "How power consolidation of digital infrastructures threatens our democracies-and what we can do about it"

some proposals for the Global Digital Compact (GDC) can be read to mandate more centralized governance. If the final document contains such language, we believe it will be detrimental to not only the Internet and the Web, but also to the world’s economies and societies.

Panelists from the Atlantic Council give a bit of a primer on Internet Governance history, how things changed with the Snowden revelations, the recent push for multilateralism, and how China sees the Global Digital Compact as a way to gain more leverage. (Also some discussion of the Digital Silk Road initiative)

Panelists from the Atlantic Council give a bit of a primer on Internet Governance history, how things changed with the Snowden revelations, the recent push for multilateralism, and how China sees the Global Digital Compact as a way to gain more leverage. (Also some discussion of the Digital Silk Road initiative)

Delineating a robust investment matrix in the AI start-up ecosystem from 1907 to 2024, this paper highlights key financiers like Sequoia Capital and Softbank. Dominant sectors receiving support include Biotechnology, Cloud Computing, and Generative AI, with a noticeable trend toward Web3 and NLP technologies. The network map emphasizes the dynamic interplay between established venture groups, accelerators, and government-backed entities, underscoring their vital role in nurturing innovation within this high-growth industry.

This document examines the potential of collective internet frameworks, contrasting the privatized model with past initiatives like Cybersyn, and explores their implications for current socio-technical architectures. The author critiques the naturalization of individualized internet interaction, advocating for alternative, socially-driven network topologies and practices that prioritize collective empowerment over market determinism.

how vital it is to expand our discipline’s focus beyond technological minutia and see the wider background affected by our work. In this regard, the lenses of economics, sociology, political science, and other social sciences are necessary. In particular, power as an analytic category is especially valuable for understanding the relationship between computing and the rest of society.

This paper then presented an expanded categorization of academic computing that legitimates both internal critique and a broader concern for the public interest as constitutive aspects of academic computing.

This would mean breaking from our almost single-minded focus within computing education on how to improve student learning of the technical aspects of computing (especially first-year programming), and instead recognize that encouraging a critical stance towards their discipline is just as important.

The paper ends with some Judith Butler quotes. Let the Butlerian Jihad commence!

From The Syllabus:

Developing the concept of "neo-illiberalism" in the context of neoliberal economics and illiberal nationalism, our hidden gem of the week explores how EU platform regulation prioritizes corporations over human rights.

It is not self promotion if I do it instead of @[email protected] right?

(Reproducing this from Fission Talk)

Below I will add in my condensed chapter notes. Each chapter is available as its own paper on the book website 1 if you want to just pick and choose. Many of these chapters were presented as papers at the Internet Governance Forum in 2022.

Here is the TOC for your reference:

This article delves into Google’s dominance of the browser market, highlighting how Google’s Chrome browser is playing a critical role in asserting Google’s dominance in other markets.