Originally published on Data & Society: Points on 30th November 2021. By: Kim Fernandes and Ranjit Singh. The annotated bibliography below represents ongoing conversations on emerging debates around digital identification, the state, and citizenship between Kim Fernandes,PhD candidate in Anthropology and Education at the University of Pennsylvania, and Data & Society Postdoctoral Scholar Ranjit Singh. How do digital IDs mediate […]
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At The Good Robot Podcast, Eleanor Drage and Kerry Mackereth at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies ask the experts: what is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And what does feminism have to say about it? Each week, they invite scholars, industry practitioners, activists, and more to provide their unique perspective on what feminism […]
Parables of AI in/from the Global South
Originally published in 4S Backchannels on 17th September 2021. By: Ranjit Singh and Rigoberto Lara Guzmán The possibilities of leveraging Big Data and AI-based interventions are often poised to flow as innovations that emerge from the Global North to the rest of the world. Such flows tend to position the Global North as the active center […]
Imbrication
Originally published on A New AI Lexicon on 13th July 2021. \ ˌim-brə-ˈkā-shən \ Definition: an overlapping of edges (as of tiles or scales) The tribal areas of Rajasthan [a state in the west of India] are very hilly. How would you get network [internet] there? Let me give you an example. The Fair Price Shop is […]
Mapping AI in/from the Global South
Originally published on Data & Society: Points on 26th January 2021. The possibilities of leveraging Big Data and AI-based interventions are often poised to flow as innovations emerging from the Global North to the rest of the world. Such flows tend to position the Global North as the active center and the Global South as […]