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The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance
Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 13 pp.
"Blockchain originated from the aspiration for decentralization, and in Western countries, its association with freedom from governmental and corporate dominance remains unwavering. However, in China–where blockchain has taken an intriguing foothold–the socio-technical imaginaries of blockchain
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Data communism: Constructing a national data ecosystem
Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.
"Over the past decade, China has gradually begun to take a more proactive approach to digital development, passing a range of policies that aim to restructure how data is treated within its national economic system. These policies reflect the construction of a new data ecology in which data is gradu
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Open Content: Navigating Creative Commons Licenses
Bonn; Berlin: Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission; Wikimedia Deutschland (2024), 85 pp.
"Traditionally, copyright has been associated with restrictive terms such as “all rights reserved”. This phrase implies that the copyright holder retains complete control over their work, restricting its use and distribution. However, the concept of Open Content offers a more flexible and inclus
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Internet Universality: Advancing Inclusive Digital Transformation with ROAM-X Indicators
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (2024), 126 pp.
Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
London: WH Allen (2024), x, 303 pp.
"If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. In the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour and private property from developing countries. It made shiny promises to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It made native populati
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"Despite strong international condemnation, there is growing acceptance of internet shutdowns as a legitimate response to online content that governments—particularly in Africa—find concerning. This article explores government decision- making around internet shutdowns during contentious periods
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"In 2023, Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA) through its consortium partner, Internews, undertook the most comprehensive review yet of laws affecting media practice and the freedom of expression, including cyber laws, penal codes, constitutions and acts of parliament, in the sixteen Souther
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How the Internet is Being Tamed in Russia: Chronicle of State Securitization Measures
Journalism Research, volume 6, issue 1 (2023), pp. 71-92
"As a communicative space, the Russian public sphere is dramatically prosecuted, and it suffers from pathologic efforts to have it systematically shut down. This article looks back into the history of the new restrictive media laws and their framing in the state media. The analysis is disclosing how
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Digital Security and Human Rights Defenders in the Asia-Pacific
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2023), 47 pp.
Rapid Response Fund for the Protection of Digital Rights in Latin America
Derechos Digitales (2023), 22 pp.
"In 2022, the Rapid response Fund for the Protection of Digital Rights in Latin America (RRF) celebrated three years of work. Managed by Derechos Digitales, the RRF was conceived as a contextualized, agile, flexible and less bureaucratic response to the needs of organizations and activist working in
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Digital policy in an age of global systemic rivalry: Challenges for liberal democracies
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2023), 30 pp.
"Liberal democracies must continue to consistently stand up for internet freedom, democracy and human rights. Germany and the European Union are regarded as role models. It is imperative therefore that they refrain from presenting legislative initiatives themselves that restrict the human right to p
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