Is the Global South in a Paradime Shift?

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The global south is in a position where both it has more to bring to the table because it's not at the centre of this process of normalization. It's better prepared to see this facade as what it is, basical construction that is being normalized by certain actors who can further their profit schemes. And i think we're going to face one of those situations in the next couple of years when this shift happens and we re structure all these systems of knowledge into something very different. There was a report from the britishe competition agency where they say it's with the long tail that gogel out competes bing,. Where gogel manages to crawl, you know, an extra 20

Paris Marx is joined by Juan Ortiz Freuler to discuss the recent global negotiations on the taxation of multinational corporations, how Africa is demanding the digital labor of its citizens be accounted for, how these tensions threaten to fragment the web, and why the Global South may hold a better future of technology that transcends the capitalist, centralized, and individualist platforms which currently dominate.

Juan Ortiz Freuler is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a member of the Tierra Común network of researchers. He recently made the case for a digital non-aligned movement. Follow Juan on Twitter as @juanof9.

Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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