IT for Change's latest report on the State of Big Tech

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Dear all,

We are thrilled to share with you the *2022 **State of Big Tech* 
<https://projects.itforchange.net/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 
<https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/>.


*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
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/big-tech-and-the-digital-hype-against-covid-19/>


  *

    Matheus Falcao: Can Data Save Lives? The Right to Health in the
    Digital Era
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/can-data-save-lives-pushing-right-to-health-into-the-digital-age/>


*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
    <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/>

  *

    Felix Maschewski & Anna-Verena Nosthoff:Big Tech and the
    Smartification of Agriculture
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/big-tech-and-the-smartification-of-agriculture-a-critical-perspective/>

  *

    GRAIN: When Big Tech Came for the Farm: A Blueprint of Resistance
    from Asia’s Small Farmers
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/big-techs-foray-into-agriculture-and-a-blueprint-of-resistance-from-asias-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
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/changing-dynamics-of-labor-and-capital/>

  *

    Uma Rani & Rishabh Dhir: Rise of the Platform Economy: Implications
    for Labor and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/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?
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/web3-and-the-metaverse-which-way-for-the-web/>

  *

    Michael Kwet: Building a Socialist Social Media Commons
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/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
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/taming-big-techification-the-european-digital-markets-act/>Techification?
    The European Digital Markets Act
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/taming-big-techification-the-european-digital-markets-act/>

  *

    Cecilia Rikap & Cedric Durand: Capitalism in the Age of Intellectual
    Monopoly
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/state-of-big-tech-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
    <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/>

  *

    Richard Hill: Centering Society in Big Tech Reform
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/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
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/taxing-big-tech-policy-options-for-developing-countries/>


  *

    Milford Bateman: The Investor-Driven Fintech Model and its
    Discontents
    <https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/the-investor-driven-fintech-model-and-its-discontents/>

*Sidebar*: Also peruse our interviews 
<https://projects.itforchange.net/state-of-big-tech/category/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
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