Take a look at the Digital New Deal essay series. In these essays, authors reflect on the current global Covid moment and its challenges from various standpoints and how the digital fits into this equation.
Global technology assessment mechanism
Our demands
- As the UN, governments and institutions grapple with the governance of digital technologies, there is an urgent need for broad, transparent, inclusive, accessible and participatory deliberations on the current and potential impacts of these technologies on the environment, the labour market, livelihoods and society;
- Horizon scanning and foresight capacities need to be developed and should involve identifying options beyond technological solutions. Governance measures on technologies is not just about regulation but ensuring that the common good remains as the ultimate goal and takes precedence over profits.
The dimension of Gender Equality
Technologies pose a two-sides challenge in relation to gender equality. On the one hand, the technology gap has been addressed in many spaces. On the other, it is not always mentioned, and that is the negative impact the lack of regulation on technologies have on women.
Navigate through Bot Populi, which is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and global south perspective. You will find there as well videos and resources on digital trade.
Just a taste of what you will find in Digital New Deal: Feminist Frames for a Brave New Digitality.
And a taste of what you can find in Bot Populi: Trade Negotiation And The Digital Fight.
