Session Six | Sep 22
SESSION TITLE
Infrastructure is political: Environmental justice, community sovereignty, and power dynamics.
About the Mentors
Tania
Tania is a person, a being, a piece of start, nothing and everything at same time...
Tania loves to be with people, hates to be with people...
Tania loves to code, hates to code...
Tania loves to hack, specially life and technologies, for her, is more than 0 and 1
Maud Barret
Maud is a PhD candidate in sociology and philosophy working on the politics of technology.
She takes care of the working group on surveillance of the French civil society organization le Mouton Numérique.
ABOUT THE SESSION
In this session you can expect to leave the room with the below takeaways:
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to understand the importance of local governance
- To explore how such realities can be advocated for in local, regional and global policy spaces
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To explore local decision making and their influence on infrastructure
Structure
- Presentations
- Thoughts on the articulation of environmental justice, feminist internet principles & community sovereignty for CNs
- Mapping the environmental weight of networks
- Eco-aware policy-making
Resources
https://www.apc.org/en/news/towards-new-feminist-principle-internet-environment-two-new-publications-now-available-english
https://www.apc.org/en/blog/seeding-change-communities-mobilise-open-data-challenge-oil-industry-pollution-nigeria
https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/feminist-design-and-designed-diverse-feminists
https://www.apc.org/en/news/low-cost-community-based-communications-network-towers-one-many-reasons-love-bamboo
https://www.apc.org/en/news/apc-tech-democracy-how-can-digital-technology-support-environmental-justice-and-its-defenders
https://www.apc.org/en/news/giswatch-2020-launch-technology-environment-and-sustainable-world
Environmental justice & ICT:
The uncertain futures of digital systems in an era of environmental crisis (in French)
https://gauthierroussilhe.com/book/sciencespo/
Ensmenger, Nathan. « The Environmental History of Computing », The Society for History of Technology. 2018, vol.4 no 59. p. 7‑33. https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/nensmeng/files/Ensmenger2018.pdf (open access)