Category: data-inequality

The Role and Implications of Technology During the Covid-19 Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has completely reshaped the way we do our jobs, how we stay in touch with our family and friends, how we learn, shop, bank and a multitude of other activities that we might not traditionally have done online. For the 54% of the global population with access to …

data-inequality / Health inequalities / platform capitalism / Solutionism

Activism in the Digital Era, and its relation to freedom of speech and data equality

  With the speeding pace of globalization and the echoing fourth industrial revolution, the “Global Village,” as described by media theorist Marshall McLuhan, seems to have become the “Global Room”. Now, one would hope that this virtual shrinking of the world through the medium of the internet would reflect how …

data-inequality / digital activism / freedom of speech / platform capitalism