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‘We want to be the hosts of this story’: Learning from community‐led approaches to data governance of land use for nature recovery

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Debates abound regarding how to use land for nature recovery and environmental governance. Such decisions require an understanding of benefits and trade‐offs, and increasingly rely on vast quantities of data, delivered through digital technologies.
Lucy Jenner, Marc J. Metzger, Darren Moseley, Ed Forrest   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archaeology in Serbia Facing the Challenges of Digital Colonialism

Etnoantropološki Problemi
The paper deals with the phenomenon of digital colonialism and its reflections in Serbian archaeology. This is the current form of global inequalities, characterized by imposing technological domination over the countries of the Global South, most ...
Predrag Đerković
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski, Łukasz Walas, Marzenna Guzicka   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Our data, ourselves: Participation, justice, and alternative futures of data sovereignty in India

Big Data & Society
Scholars have used the term data colonialism to designate the extractive, asymmetrical relationship between Big Tech corporations and countries in the global South.
Sagnik Dutta, Suruchi Mazumdar
doaj   +1 more source

Digital colonialism, techno-sovereignty, and infrastructural power

Frontiers in Political Science
This paper develops a political-theoretical critique of artificial intelligence (AI), situating contemporary AI infrastructures within debates on digital colonialism and techno-sovereignty.
Artur Ishkhanyan, Artur Ishkhanyan
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Being bound in a fieldsite: Cross-cultural methodological notes on doing digital ethnography on TikTok

Cultural Science, 2023
Digital ethnography requires attention to ethical processes, data complexity, and social interactions, particularly on emerging platforms like TikTok. This paper draws on our research in Australia and South Korea, examining the challenges of defining a ...
Abidin Crystal, Lee Jin
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Book Review: In Search of Identity: Debates on Religious Conversion in India [PDF]

, 2005
A review of In Search of Identity: Debates on Religious Conversion in India by Sebastian C.
Dempsey, Corinne
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Life after herbarium digitisation: Physical and digital collections, curation and use

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Collections of dried plant specimens (herbaria) provide an invaluable resource for the study of many areas of scientific interest and conservation globally. Digitisation increases access to specimens and metadata, enabling efficient use across a broad spectrum of research.
Alan James Paton, Gabriel K. Ameka, Alexandre Antonelli, Alex Asase, Russell L. Barrett, Ann Bogaerts, Domingos Cardoso, Mark Carine, Alastair Culham, Syadwina H. Dalimunthe, Nina Davies, Sofie De Smedt, Sebebe Demissew, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza, Quentin Groom, Elspeth M. Haston, Abdulrokhman Kartonegoro, Paul Kersey, Isabel Larridon, Jana Leong‐Škorničková, Lucia G. Lohmann, Jehova Lourenco Jr., Hannah McPherson, Muthama Muasya, Nicky Nicolson, Marcelo Pace, Jack F. Plummer, Hélène Ralimanana, Himmah Rustiami, Hervé Sauquet, Emily B. Sessa, Eric Smets, Alex Sumadijaya, Jordan Teisher, Daniel C. Thomas, Eka F. Tihurua, Janine E. Victor, Sarah T. Wagner, Quiang Wang, Andrew Young   +39 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digitalization in the Global South

TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2019
What are opportunities and risks of ICT in a global context from an ethical and interdisciplinary point of view? This TATuP special topic addresses often neglected issues, like unequal power relations, neo-colonialism, (digital) illiteracy, general ...
Kerstin Schopp, Laura Schelenz, Jessica Heesen, Maria Pawelec   +3 more
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Archaeological heritage in the age of digital colonialism [PDF]

Archaeological Dialogues, 2020
AbstractDigital archaeologists claim that their practices have proven to be an important tool for mediating conflict, ensuring that the digital turn in archaeology entails engaging in current political issues. This can be questioned by analysing a copy of the Syrian Arch of Triumph. The original was destroyed in 2015.
openaire   +2 more sources