The Digital Africa series explores how the use of digital technologies has opened new civic space for the exercise of democratic rights and freedoms in Africa and how repressive regimes have used digital technologies to deny, diminish, or remove those rights.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/digital-africa/?s=08
The hidden physical infrastructure of the cloud and wi-fi. How the internet is reproduced, manually.
https://restofworld.org/2025/africa-internet-cable-repair-ship/
Q&A-Africa's internet shutdowns double in less than a decade. Our new book (free to download) documents the history of digital authoritarianism in eleven countries.
Africa’s internet shutdowns double as digital crackdowns rise. First ever book on internet shutdowns published this week. #DigitalRights
https://www.cajnewsafrica.com/2025/09/16/africas-internet-shutdowns-double-as-digital-crackdowns-rise/
Expert rejects Met police claim that study backs bias-free live facial recognition use | Facial recognition | The Guardian https://share.google/VC99CrEZYisnahXWA
Infrastructures of Exclusion. Àadhaar fails most often with the most marginalized reproducing and amplifying intersectional patterns of (dis)advantage.
https://idronline.org/article/rights/infrastructures-of-exclusion-how-e-kyc-impacts-access-to-food/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=sm&s=09
Microsoft's role in illegal settlements, apartheid Israel, and genocide. Tech for Palestine.
https://youtu.be/4k_yA9G8ciE?feature=shared
Your Cloud is Our Drinking Water.
Tucson community forces city council to unanimously reject huge new Amazon data centre.
https://azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/tucson-city-council-rejects-project-blue-amid-intense-community-pressure/
Can digital public infrastructure (DPI) be considered to be a colonial technology?
And if so, what would be necessary to decolonise DPI?
http://appropriatingtechnology.org/
Personal data is power and Trump's DOGE is symphoning it all into a master data set.
https://techpolicy.press/the-new-surveillance-state-why-data-privacy-is-now-essential-to-democracy
AI’s benefits are overstated and underproven, from cancer cures to hypothetical economic growth – while some of its flaws are real, immediate, and growing.
AI Now Institute
https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/research/executive-summary-artificial-power
How 'banking the unbanked' drew millions of Africans into the thrall of vulture capitalism. Unregulated FinTech loans is a new form of digital exploitation: "a ticking time bomb" of chronic indebtedness. https://techcabal.com/2025/05/16/bnpl-startups-debt-crisis-kenya/