Digital Technology and Human Rights. With Joana Varon

Originally seen as a tool for revolution and access to knowledge
for all people, the internet and digital technologies have become
monopolized by big tech companies and individual stakeholders.
Where once issues of creative commons and changing power
structures were discussed, digital space has now been clouded by
hate speech, misinformation, and power imbalances. In this
episode, we talk to Joana Varon, a technology and human rights
fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, about digital rights, the
Internet’s potential for empowerment and discriminating
artificial intelligence. To protect democracies and minorities
online, Varon believes that we need to diversify technology and
depart from the idea of universal software solutions.


Transcript of the episode: https://bit.ly/ifaPodcast44Transkript


More input on digital technology: KULTURAUSTAUSCH article ‘Light
is the enemy’: http://bit.ly/3WkYuJN.


Interview with Manouchehr Shamsrizi ‘Upgrade to the Metaverse?’:
http://bit.ly/3YHwAJo