From anita at itforchange.net Thu Dec 1 07:55:19 2022 From: anita at itforchange.net (anita) Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2022 11:25:19 +0530 Subject: IT for Change's latest report on the State of Big Tech In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <307a900d-875d-f1f3-304b-8184d0a107f7@itforchange.net> Dear all, We are thrilled to share with you the *2022 **State of Big Tech* reporton the theme of *'Dismantling Digital Enclosures*', 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. 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. The report is available on the State of Big Tech website . *Highlights from the Compendium* 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. *Health*: 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. * Nicoletta Dentico: Big Tech and the Digital Hype Against Covid-19 * Matheus Falcao: Can Data Save Lives? The Right to Health in the Digital Era *Agriculture*: 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. * Sofia Monsalve Suarez & Philip Seufert: Big Tech Takeover of Food Systems in Latin America: Elements for a Human Rights-based Alternative * Felix Maschewski & Anna-Verena Nosthoff:Big Tech and the Smartification of Agriculture * GRAIN: When Big Tech Came for the Farm: A Blueprint of Resistance from Asia?s Small Farmers *Labor*: These essays look at implications of the platform economy and digitalization for workers' rights, capturing the new considerations that emerge for the labor agenda. * Jai Vipra: Changing Dynamics of Labor and Capital * Uma Rani & Rishabh Dhir: Rise of the Platform Economy: Implications for Labor and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries *New Media*: The essays discuss alternatives to privatized and extractivist content platforms, and what it would take to move towards social ownership and democratic digital futures * James Muldoon: Web3 and the Metaverse: Which Way for the Web? * Michael Kwet: Building a Socialist Social Media Commons *Monopolies*: These essays define the concept of intellectual monopolies and the scope of new regulations such as the Digital Markets Act to break them. * Reijer Hendrikse, Farwa Sial, Rodrigo Fernandez & Tobias J. Klinge: Taming Big Techification? The European Digital Markets Act * Cecilia Rikap & Cedric Durand: Capitalism in the Age of Intellectual Monopoly *Global Governance*: 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. * Deborah James: Rigging the Rules: How Big Tech Uses Stealth ?Trade? Agreements and How We Can Stop Them * Richard Hill: Centering Society in Big Tech Reform *Taxation and Fintech*: 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 * Abdul Muheet Chowdhary & Sebastien Babou Diasso: Taxing Big Tech: Policy Options for Developing Countries * Milford Bateman: The Investor-Driven Fintech Model and its Discontents *Sidebar*: Also peruse our interviews , 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. Regards The State of Big Tech Team IT for Change -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In case you missed these discussions, here are some recaps: - Recording of DC Main Session: Our Digital Future: How IGF Dynamic Coalitions support the Global Digital Compact - Geneva Internet Platform?s Summary report? - IGF 2022 outputs In addition, on December 7-9, 2022, IRPC participated in the 22nd Steering Committee on Media and Information Society (CDMSI) Plenary Meeting.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?(IRPC at IGF 2022) Opportunities: - Call for abstracts for the Platform Governance Research Network Conference 2023: Deadline December 18, 2022.? - Call for Open Future Fellowship 2023: Deadline December 31, 2022. - Call for applications for 2023 Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE): Deadline January 3, 2023.?? - Call for participants: Researcher Access in the Digital Services Act: Deadline January 16, 2023.? Best regards, IRPC Steering Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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