APC Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism,...
APC welcomes the focus of the UN Special Rapporteur on the acute and structural threats that new information technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), pose to the rights to...
View ArticleQuestions for white liberals
White allies rarely explain why particular racist actions might have occurred. White liberal intellectuals frequently learn anti-racist discourse and mimic it back at us with little trenchant thought...
View ArticleJoint civil society statement: Structural intervention is required to...
As widespread recent protests have highlighted, racial inequality remains an urgent and devastating issue around the world, and this is as true in the context of technology as it is everywhere else.
View ArticleThe digital rights movement needs to be deliberately inclusive
We often speak of, and understand, technology to be embedded in socio-political contexts, and imbued with a number of power struggles and their violences. What we do not speak of is how we as the...
View ArticleWhy did Google think two Zimbabwean women writers were the same person?
Algorithm bias manifests itself in unique ways every single day, affecting people of colour. Fungai Machirori explores how big tech corporations misidentify renowned Black women - error that continues...
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