Add to ORKGAs Western technology companies increasingly rely on user data globally, extensive data protection laws and regulations emerged to ensure ethical use of that data. These same protections, however, do not exist uniformly in the resource-rich, infrastructure-poor African countries, where Western tech seeks to establish its presence. These conditions provide an ideal landscape for digital colonialism. Digital colonialism refers to a modern-day “Scramble for Africa” where largescale tech companies extract, analyze, and own user data for profit and market influence with nominal benefit to the data source. Under the guise of altruism, large scale tech companies can use their power and resources to access untapped data on the continent. Scant data...
Increasingly, the global challenges posed by digitalization and cybersecurity are emerging as centra...
The digital revolution has transformed much of the global economy. Information and commu-nication te...
A literature review is pivotal to any scientific research or writing. Quite often a prudent researc...
As Western technology companies increasingly rely on user data globally, extensive data protection l...
The European Union (EU) recently passed the General Data Protection Regulation--a sweeping regulator...
The dawn of the neocolonial project has seen the emergence of a new space: data. Data is a raw mater...
Conventionally, the African continent is largely written out of accounts on technology. If discussed...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become a crucial sector of China–Africa relat...
<p>Presentation to set the scene of digital colonialism in the context of discoverability of African...
China has developed into a twenty-first-century surveillance state with unprecedented abilities to c...
China is making a sustained effort to become a 'cyber superpower'. An integral part of this effort i...
Social media generates massive amount of big data from users, the penetration of these platforms in ...
Humanity is currently undergoing a large-scale social, economic and legal transformation based on th...
The digital divide has a significant impact on the ways in which information across Africa is develo...
Silicon-based transhumanists talk a lot about the implications of digitalization, whereby topics lik...
Increasingly, the global challenges posed by digitalization and cybersecurity are emerging as centra...
The digital revolution has transformed much of the global economy. Information and commu-nication te...
A literature review is pivotal to any scientific research or writing. Quite often a prudent researc...
As Western technology companies increasingly rely on user data globally, extensive data protection l...
The European Union (EU) recently passed the General Data Protection Regulation--a sweeping regulator...
The dawn of the neocolonial project has seen the emergence of a new space: data. Data is a raw mater...
Conventionally, the African continent is largely written out of accounts on technology. If discussed...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become a crucial sector of China–Africa relat...
<p>Presentation to set the scene of digital colonialism in the context of discoverability of African...
China has developed into a twenty-first-century surveillance state with unprecedented abilities to c...
China is making a sustained effort to become a 'cyber superpower'. An integral part of this effort i...
Social media generates massive amount of big data from users, the penetration of these platforms in ...
Humanity is currently undergoing a large-scale social, economic and legal transformation based on th...
The digital divide has a significant impact on the ways in which information across Africa is develo...
Silicon-based transhumanists talk a lot about the implications of digitalization, whereby topics lik...
Increasingly, the global challenges posed by digitalization and cybersecurity are emerging as centra...
The digital revolution has transformed much of the global economy. Information and commu-nication te...
A literature review is pivotal to any scientific research or writing. Quite often a prudent researc...