Surveillance in the Majority World Network
Surveillance in the Majority World Research Network aims to expand the scope of surveillance studies to include non-Northern / Western discourses and practices.
https://surveillance-majority-world.net
- 📣 Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter for January 2026 is out! surveillance-majority-world.net/2026/01/07/s...
- Surveillance in the Majority World Network's November newsletter is out! surveillance-majority-world.net/2025/11/25/s...
- 📣Surveillance in the Majority world Network's newsletter is out!
- 📣 Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter for June 2025 is out!
- Surveillance in the Majority World's May Newsletter is out! featuring: - Our attendance report of the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2025, Lusaka, Zambia! hashtag#DRIF25 - Altman's Worldcoin Ordered to Delete Biometric Data in Kenya Over Privacy Breach
- - Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D): A Contested Notion [Research Article] - Uninvited Protagonists: The Networked Agency of Venezuelan Platform Data Workers [Research Article] - ID System Challenges for Refugees in Kenya [Research Report]
- 📣Our April Surveillance in the Majority World Newsletter is out! In this issue, you will read about: - Morocco’s Surveillance Infrastructure Expands Ahead of Sports Mega-Events - Indian Income Tax Bill 2025: Expanding Digital Search & Seizure Powers
- - Digital Public Infrastructures: A Critical Inquiry by @bulletprooflama.bsky.social - An Intellectual History of Digital Colonialism - Special Issue: Latin American Critical Data Studies (editorial by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social) - USA Disappeared Tracker: A Data-Driven Call to Action
- 📣Surveillance in the Majority World March newsletter is out! In this issue, you will read about: 1- New Book: Digital Surveillance in Africa by @phatcontroller.bsky.social & Admire Mare 2- Surveillance & Society Journal’s Dialogue Section on Authoritarian Surveillance (@survstudiesnet.bsky.social)
- 3- Activists at RightsCon Address U.S. Retreat from Digital Rights 4- Paper: EU’s Pre-Criminalization of African Migrants Through AI and Surveillance by Loren B Landau 5- India to Host the Next Global AI Summit 6- Israeli Military Developing AI System Using Palestinian Surveillance Data
- 📣Our February newsletter is out! Read more on indigenous statistics, policing a postcolonial city, the political economy of smart surveillance in Curitiba, Brazil, Morocco’s AI-Enhanced governance of borders, predatory data & call for proposals for Africa Spyware & Digital Surveillance!
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- Reposted by Surveillance in the Majority World NetworkHow do autocrats stay in power? Our new research dives into the strategies of political control—repression, co-optation, and indoctrination—used across 229 autocracies from 1946 to 2010. What we found will change the way you think about authoritarian resilience. 🧵👇
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- Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees holds a webinar on the "Threat of AI and Technology to Immigrant Justice" on Wednesday, February 5, 2025 - 9:45am to 11:00am PST. Register at the link.
- Our January newsletter is out! Read about Syrian surveillance revelation after Assad's fall, India’s draft data protection rules, Latin America’s 2024 overview of AI Integration, @oiioxford.bsky.social's Global Southing Internet workshop & New OA Book on Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries.
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- Join our team! 🤗 Are you a graduate student interested in surveillance studies? We need an enthusiastic bookworm to help us compile an online library of publications on surveillance in the Majority World. Please follow the link for applications. We have a small budget to compensate for the hours.
- Our first newsletter is up! Read about some cool new tools, the false promise of biometrics by @lhreports.bsky.social, automation on the move by @algorithmwatch.bsky.social, listen to a podcast on Afrotopia, learn about India-Isreal AI weapon systems collaboration, & maybe decide to join our team!
- The mass diagnoses have been made as part of lawsuit being brought against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and Samasource Kenya, an outsourcing company that carried out content moderation for Meta using workers from across Africa... from @theguardian.com
- We had the first Majority World track at the Surveillance Studies Conference and it was a great success! Soon we will announce more exciting programs for 2025 😎
- 2024 in review. SSN and Surveillance & Society have had a great year! This was the 22nd Volume of S&S, and we also ran our 10th international conference. Let's start with Surveillance & Society. Under @torinmonahan.bsky.social's brilliant stewardship, we published 4 issues of the journal...
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- Reposted by Surveillance in the Majority World Network🚨Are you a person on the move interested in #BorderTech? Apply for our THIRD annual fellowship application with @migrationtechmonitor.com and @refugeelawlab.bsky.social! Application materials (in whatever language!) are due December 31st 2024 www.migrationtechmonitor.com/aboutmtmfell... A little🧵
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- Reposted by Surveillance in the Majority World NetworkSurveillance & Society / SSN is looking for new Associate Editors for 3-year terms, to help spread our article review workload. Associate Editors are also members of the Network & Editorial Board which manages the journal and SSN. For more details, see here: ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su...
- Surveillance & Society Journal is seeking nominations for associate editor positions. Come join the amazing team at @survstudiesnet.bsky.social!
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- Support for at-risk researchers: 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institution in the EU.
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- Reposted by Surveillance in the Majority World Networkmost people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/
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