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<div class="moz-forward-container">Dear all,
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<p>We are thrilled to share with you the <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/"
moz-do-not-send="true"><b>2022 </b><b>State of Big Tech</b></a><span
style="font-weight: normal"> </span><span
style="font-weight: normal">report</span><span
style="font-weight: normal"> </span>on the theme of <b>'Dismantling
Digital Enclosures</b>', launched earlier this month. The
State of Big Tech report is envisioned as an evolving,
year-on-year endeavor that will track and unpack the
developments in the Big Tech space. </p>
<p>Our debut edition of the State of Big Tech is a powerful
volume of essays that brings together important perspectives
on the corporatization of digital technologies from across
regions and constituencies.</p>
The report is available on the State of Big Tech <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/"
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<p><b>Highlights from the Compendium</b></p>
<p> The compendium deep-dives into various sectors as well
as address cross-cutting issues. Going beyond the
diagnostic, contributions in this volume attempt to
forward solutions to regulatory stalemates, envision new
agendas for labor, and assess experiments in building
progressive models towards new digital futures. </p>
<p><b>Health</b>: The essays discuss global governance
frameworks for public and private interests of data use,
as well as the importance of rooting these in the right
to health.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Nicoletta Dentico: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/big-tech-and-the-digital-hype-against-covid-19/"
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Hype Against Covid-19</a> </p>
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<p>Matheus Falcao: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/can-data-save-lives-pushing-right-to-health-into-the-digital-age/"
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Right to Health in the Digital Era</a> </p>
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<p><b>Agriculture</b>: These essays locate themselves in
geographical experiences of South and South East Asia as
well as Latin America and discuss extractivist digital
systems that have taken over agricultural practices
through the use of Big Data. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Sofia Monsalve Suarez
& Philip Seufert: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/agritech-and-food-systems-in-latin-america-corporate-takeover-and-elements-for-a-human-rights-based-alternative/"
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Systems in Latin America: Elements for a Human
Rights-based Alternative</a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Felix Maschewski &
Anna-Verena Nosthoff:<a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/big-tech-and-the-smartification-of-agriculture-a-critical-perspective/"
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Smartification of Agriculture</a></p>
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<p>GRAIN: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/big-techs-foray-into-agriculture-and-a-blueprint-of-resistance-from-asias-small-farmers/"
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Farm: A Blueprint of Resistance from Asia’s Small
Farmers</a></p>
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<p><b>Labor</b>: These essays look at implications of the
platform economy and digitalization for workers' rights,
capturing the new considerations that emerge for the
labor agenda.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Jai Vipra: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/changing-dynamics-of-labor-and-capital/"
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and Capital</a></p>
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<p>Uma Rani & Rishabh Dhir: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/rise-of-the-platform-economy-implications-for-labor-and-sustainable-development-in-developing-countries/"
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Economy: Implications for Labor and Sustainable
Development in Developing Countries </a> </p>
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<p><b>New Media</b>: The essays discuss alternatives to
privatized and extractivist content platforms, and what
it would take to move towards social ownership and
democratic digital futures</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">James Muldoon: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/web3-and-the-metaverse-which-way-for-the-web/"
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Which Way for the Web?</a></p>
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<p>Michael Kwet: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/building-a-socialist-social-media-commons/"
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Media Commons</a></p>
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<p><b>Monopolies</b>: These essays define the concept of
intellectual monopolies and the scope of new regulations
such as the Digital Markets Act to break them. </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Reijer Hendrikse, Farwa
Sial, Rodrigo Fernandez & Tobias J. Klinge: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/taming-big-techification-the-european-digital-markets-act/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Taming Big </a><a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/taming-big-techification-the-european-digital-markets-act/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Techification? The European
Digital Markets Act</a></p>
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<p>Cecilia Rikap & Cedric Durand: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/state-of-big-tech-capitalism-in-the-age-of-intellectual-monopoly/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Capitalism in the Age of
Intellectual Monopoly</a></p>
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<p><b>Global Governance</b>: These essays look at the
history of internet governance and use of the global
trade regime to create avenues for reduced regulation on
Big Tech and accordingly, unregulated growth for them.</p>
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<p>Deborah James: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/rigging-the-rules-how-big-tech-uses-stealth-trade-agreements-to-undermine-and-prevent-digitalization-in-public-interest-and-how-we-can-stop-them/"
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Tech Uses Stealth “Trade” Agreements and How We
Can Stop Them</a></p>
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<p>Richard Hill: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/centering-society-in-big-tech-reform/"
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Tech Reform</a></p>
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<p><b>Taxation and Fintech</b>: These essays delve into
the limitations of the Base Erosion and Profits Shifting
mechanism, as well as the need for alternatives in the
nature of people centred fintech models that don’t
solely rely on investors and their privately-operated
digital financial systems</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Abdul Muheet Chowdhary
& Sebastien Babou Diasso: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/taxing-big-tech-policy-options-for-developing-countries/"
moz-do-not-send="true">Taxing Big Tech: Policy
Options for Developing Countries</a> </p>
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<p>Milford Bateman: <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/the-investor-driven-fintech-model-and-its-discontents/"
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Model and its Discontents</a></p>
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<p><b>Sidebar</b>: Also peruse our <a
href="https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/category/interviews/"
moz-do-not-send="true">interviews</a>, where experts
share their takes on the Big Tech problem from various
vantage points – from the inside of a small Chinese
garment manufacturing firm, to the onslaught of AI in
public education. <br>
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<p>Regards</p>
<p>The State of Big Tech Team<br>
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