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techpolicy.press Technology & Ethics
Ramsha Jahangir and Justin Hendrix collect how governments outside the Western AI powers and China approached AI at the UN General Assembly High-Level Week — calling for a greater role in shaping AI rules, expanded access to AI capacity, and safety efforts that do not deepen technological divides. Pakistan, for example, backed calls to pace frontier AI while warning that "pacing must not become a new form of gatekeeping."
#ai-governance #united-nations #global-south #ai-policy #regulation
techpolicy.press Added Oct 4, 2026 0 opens theguardian.com Technology & Ethics
Reporting on a community campaign against a data center's water and energy use during a drought.
Why I recommend it: The clearest single story on what a data center costs the place it lands in.
#ai #ai ethics #data-centers #energy #environment #free #global-south #journalism #research #tech-ethics #technology #water
theguardian.com Added Sep 16, 2026 0 opens lesan.ai Technology & Ethics
A translation project built for Ethiopian and other underserved languages by researchers from those language communities.
Why I recommend it: What language AI looks like when the people who speak the language build it.
#africa #ai #ai ethics #community #free #global-south #language #research #tech-ethics #technology #translation
lesan.ai Added Sep 16, 2026 0 opens decolonize.digital Technology & Ethics
A research and publishing project on digital colonialism — who owns infrastructure, data and platforms, and who is extracted from.
Why I recommend it: Shifts the ethics conversation from bias in models to ownership of infrastructure.
#ai #ai ethics #data #decolonial #free #global-south #governance #infrastructure #regulation #research #tech-ethics #technology
decolonize.digital Added Sep 16, 2026 0 opens assess.technology Technology & Ethics
A regional platform for assessing new technologies from the perspective of African communities and policymakers.
Why I recommend it: Technology assessment led from the region rather than imported into it.
#africa #ai #ai ethics #assessment #free #global-south #governance #policy #regulation #research #tech-ethics #technology
assess.technology Added Sep 16, 2026 0 opens opanoptico.com.br Technology & Ethics
Brazilian coverage and analysis of surveillance, policing technology and digital rights in Latin America.
Why I recommend it: Most AI ethics reading is US- and Europe-centric — this is not.
#ai #ai ethics #brazil #digital-rights #free #global-south #journalism #policing #research #surveillance #tech-ethics #technology
opanoptico.com.br Added Sep 16, 2026 0 opens techpolicy.press Technology & Ethics
Analysis based on interviews with 56 experts across 24 countries on how AI language models are used differently in the Global South and the human rights risks that follow.
Why I recommend it: A rare look at AI harms and benefits outside the US and Europe.
#ai #ai ethics #ai-ethics #ai-policy #article #global-south #human-rights #llm #regulation #research
techpolicy.press Added Sep 13, 2026 0 opens 