TILT events

Launch of Resist and Reboot: A Playbook for Solidarity in Digital Rights Work

Date: Time: 11:00 Location: M 1003

Join Gargi Sharma and Siddharth de Souza in an interactive workshop for the launch of Resist and Reboot, a playbook from the Global Data Justice Project on 22nd March at 11.30 am at CZ 122.

About the Playbook

This playbook was born out of a podcast series from the Global Data Justice Project produced and hosted from March to October 2021. There were three main motivations to work on this project: one, most of the conversations surrounding technology and human rights focus on top-down solutions, quite often ignoring the lived experiences and expertise of grassroots organisations, social movements, and communities. This results in more importance being given to technical training covering data technologies rather than an analysis of their encroachment into people’s lives. We wanted to prioritise the human element of data justice, which leads to the second aspect – that there is still a dearth of conversations surrounding digital technologies and data in the ‘mainstream’ that centre social justice instead of seeing it as an add-on. We wanted to talk with civil society actors, the core of whose work is social justice, and discuss how they view and engage with life worlds around data. Three, we came into this project with the awareness that social change doesn’t happen in a vacuum nor does it happen as a result of a single individual or group’s efforts, and therefore we were interested to explore the value that the collective brings to the governing of data.

Check out the playbook here :- https://globaldatajustice.org/gdj/2928/

Registration

Please register for the event by 19th May by mailing Siddharth de Souza- S.P.deSouza@tilburguniversity.edu