
A New Era of Democracy Ep. 2 | Anasuya Sengupta
RadicalxChange(s)
The Values of an Internet
The Internet would not be here, at least our present form of the Internet wouldn't be here without public funding. And yet what happens when we either root our understanding of the Internet in the individual or in the institution is that we forget to analyze both the intention of the technology and the impact of the technology. "I think that the Internet and the Internet are very focused on the risk of centralization and decentralization," he says.
This episode is part of a mini season of RadicalxChange(s) titled A New Era of Democracy.
Lauded poet, author, and activist Anasuya Sengupta joins Matt Prewitt on this episode to discuss the culture of Wikipedia, the embedded power dynamics of digital technologies, and how plurality plays a role in empowering the global South's presence on the internet.
Links:
State of the Internet’s Languages Report | Whose Knowledge?
State of the Internet’s Languages website
Anasuya Sengupta (@anasuyashh) is Co-Founder and Co-Director of Whose Knowledge?, a global multilingual campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the minoritized majority of the world) online. She’s led initiatives across the global South, and internationally for over 20 years, to collectively create feminist presents and futures of love, justice, and liberation. She is committed to unpacking issues of power, privilege, and access, including her own as an anti-caste savarna woman. Anasuya is the former Chief Grantmaking Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation and former Regional Program Director at the Global Fund for Women. She was a 2017 Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and received a 2018 Internet and Society award from the Oxford Internet Institute. She is on the Scholars’ Council for UCLA’s Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, and the advisory committee for MIT’s Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS).
Matt Prewitt (@m_t_prewitt) is a lawyer, technologist, and writer. He is President of the RadicalxChange Foundation.
Credits
- Originally produced by Aaron Benavides for 2021 RxC Annual Conference RxC TV program.
- Produced by G. Angela Corpus, Jennifer Morone, and Matt Prewitt.
- Co-Produced and Audio Engineered by Aaron Benavides.
- Intro/Outro music by MagnusMoone, “Wind in the Willows,” is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
This is a RadicalxChange Production.
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