Event: Decolonizing the Internet Conference

Cite as:

Chaudhury, Aadita. 2018. "EVENT: DECOLONIZING THE INTERNET CONFERENCE." In Events: STS in “Africa", created by Aadita Chaudhury. In STS in “Africa” in Formation, curated by Angela Okune. In STS Across Borders Digital Exhibit, edited by Aalok Khandekar and Kim Fortun. Society for Social Studies of Science. August.

Meta-Narrative

This invite-only conference organized by Whose Knowledge?, an initiative with the aim of centring the experience and knowledge of Global South and other marginalized internet users ran in July 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. It sought to explore the question “What are the boundaries of Science and Technology in Africa and how should we recognize and address both the uniqueness of African knowledge production and innovation on the one hand, and the potential that STS work in Africa has to offer to the field as a whole on the other?”

This PECE essay helps to answer the STS Across Borders analytic question: "What events have marked the development of this STS formation?".

This essay is part of an essay on events that have helped to bring the "STS in Africa" formation together, which is part of a broader exhibit on "STS in Africa."

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STS Across Borders In Brief

STS Across Borders is a special exhibit organized by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) to showcase how the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has developed in different times, places...Read more

Conference Information: Decolonizing the Web Conference

Aadita Chaudhury: This is the detailed information regarding the invite-only conference hosted by the organization Whose Knowledge? in Cape Town, South Africa in July 2018.Read more

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WHAT WE HOPE TO ACHIEVE

  • A convening of unlikely but powerful allies who can begin working together to redesign the internet – and public online knowledge – for diversity and inclusion.
  • A mapping of the key issues, challenges, and opportunities in this work.
  • The beginnings of a shared vocabulary, best practices, and potential design solutions for centering the knowledge of the marginalized.
  • Next steps and actions led by participants, who inspired by this gathering will have a chance to bring what they have experienced and shared together to their local realities and current projects.
  • More specifically, we hope to see how this emerging and collective new set of vocabulary and actions will infuse Wikimania – the biggest gathering of Wikipedians and one of the biggest open knowledge conferences in the world.
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