Always finding out abt amazing tech & human rights & democracy events 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 they happen in Asia?
I did too — so I built a calendar. Published weekly.
Webinars, conferences, NGO stuff — all in one place.
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#GlobalMajority #AI #Tech

Are genAI models giving us what they 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 we want to see?
And if so, what happens when billions of people experience subtly different versions of reality — each one curated for them alone?

My latest 𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝: 2 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞 (always <2 mins): ⬇︎⬇︎⬇︎
👉 www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/are-we-eac...

Concerned about technocolonialism and the new digital cold war.
I write about Indonesia's Soekarno's 1955 Bandung Asian-African Conference, how the past is prologue, and how we need a Bandung 2.ai now!

Read more here: www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/bandung-2ai

#AI #Bandung #technocolonialism

🌏 Why does tech knowledge always flow from the North?
Why is the periphery made to be the adopter, never the leader.

Time to translate from the margins in and build a knowledge ecosystem.

✍️ My latest piece: www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/translatin...

#AI #GlobalSouth #TechPolicy #SoutheastAsia

Part 2 is out!! I've unpacked 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄100’𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐈 2025 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭 and these headline stats tell only part of the story.

👉 Full analysis of TIME's leaders, innovators, shapers, and thinkers (w/charts+graphs): www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/part-2-whe...

#AI #AIethics #Time100 #Tech

I can’t resist a good “Top 100” list. But I wonder — what story do these lists tell us?

They work like algorithms — ranking, sorting, and deciding who gets seen.

TIME100, it turns out, doesn’t look like my world.

👉 Read Part 1 of my report here: www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/part-1-whe...

#AI

What would it look like to write a 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆’𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, as it unfolds, in real time?

The latest 𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝: 2 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞 is here.

Think of it as a healthy, 2-min snack for the brain!
👉🏽 www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/a-peoples-...

#AI #tech #AIgovernance #civilsociety

While the narrative may imply that we depend on big tech, the reality is they depend on us. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝.

www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/who-capaci...

#AI #AIgovernance #technocolonialism #digitalcolonialism #humanrights #Restofworld

A Dayak activist. A Taiwanese student. A Javanese protester. A Thai man navigating HIV stigma.

Each turns to AI for support — and gets gaslit.

Fictional stories, real risks as US tech panders to the far right.

Read my dispatch:
www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/americas-w...
#AI #Meta #Woke #AIharms

OpenAI bought the labour of the US federal workforce for a buck to “𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘈𝘐 𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘥.” 3M federal workers, many accessing and processing sensitive citizen info.

This is how AI technocolonialism begins.

Explained in 2 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞:
www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/unbounded-...
#AI #tech

My latest 𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝: 𝟐 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞 is both fiery and hopeful. I make the case for Clause 0 — a vital initiative by Asma Derja and the Ethical AI Alliance that demands a non-negotiable line in AI ethics:

www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/unbounded-...

#Gaza #AIethics #Clause0 #HumanRights

𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝.
From refugee camps to border zones, biometric tech is sold as efficient — but imposed without real consent. With real harms.
These aren’t neutral tools. They’re political.
New post: www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/displaced-...

#DataJustice #Refugees #AI #AIethics #UNHCR

“𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 – 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬," a reader wrote me recently abt my approach to tech.

❌ We are not users, metrics or data points to be optimised.
✅ We are citizens, with agency, rights and claims.

Read the piece she inspired: www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/citizen-co...

#AI #Tech #HR

Ever felt uneasy watching the joy, friction, and serendipity of daily life get engineered away? Tech crowding out culture? This one’s for you.

👉 Read our latest newsletter article: “Let’s be Inefficient!”
www.margin-notes-squared.com/p/lets-be-in...

#AIethics #Innovation #TechGovernance #SDGs

My new piece in Asia Times: Trump is killing civic participation in global tech governance.

AI: geopolitical flashpoint
USAID: gone
CSOs: defunded

📰 asiatimes.com/2025/07/trum...
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#AI #TechGovernance #CivicTech #USAID #AIethics