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SUMMARY:What Interests do Algorithms Serve? Is Algorithmic Colonisation In
 evitable? - Dr Tony Roberts\,  Institute of Development Studies
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CONTACT:Ashwin Varghese
DESCRIPTION:Big Tech companies have replaced oil and finance firms as the 
 most powerful on earth. Apple\, Amazon\, and Alphabet (Google)\, Meta and 
 Microsoft run online platforms using algorithms and AI manufactured to cap
 ture our attention. They effectively control the public information diet\,
  manipulate beliefs and behaviours worldwide\, and extract data and dollar
 s for billionaires in Silicon Valley. In the face of this algorithmic colo
 nisation what options exist for individual agency and national governance?
  Is another technology possible? \n\nDr Tony Roberts is a Research Fellow 
 in the Digital cluster at the Institute of Development Studies. He has wor
 ked on the use of digital technologies in international development and so
 cial justice since 1988 as a volunteer\, lecturer\, practitioner\, trustee
  and researcher. He co-convenes the African Digital Rights Network and is 
 the series editor of the Zed Books “Digital Africa” collected editions
 .
LOCATION:SG2\, Alison Richard Building
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