AI Poses Threats to Education, Ethics and Eureka Moments (2024)
The only way to know if and how to adopt generative AI into our teaching and research is through openly deliberating about its impact on our main values.
Publications
The Digitally Mediated Freedom of Assembly (2024)
Discursively repositioning assembly online as the digitally mediated freedom of assembly extends the protection of this right to more people and more practices.
Provocations for Human Rights & Technology (2024)
Breaking from big tech, and by working with technology, we are envisioning data, platforms and intelligent systems aligned with pluralism and solidarity.
Executive Summary— Unlawful Killings in Africa
A report prepared by the CGHR research team for the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Control, Extract, Legitimate: COVID-19 and Digital Techno-opportunism across Africa (2022)
In Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic, digital tech solutions mostly failed, yet they nevertheless unleashed new logics of governance and capital accumulation by states and corporations.
Witnessing: Iteration and Social Change (2022)
Thinking of digital witnessing as iteration, or collaborative communication for change, allows us to see how power inflects who and what are— and are not— witnessed.
‘Deal with Me, Here I Stand!’: Presence, Participation and the Equal Protection of Online…
The right of assembly in online spaces raises questions about the nature of presence and participation and faces challenges due to the commercial logics of online spaces.
Towards a Terrestrial Internet: re-imagining digital networks from the ground up (2022)
The expansion of digital infrastructure is having material and concrete impacts on society and the environment. This phenomenon is rendering obsolete binary distinctions between the “physical” and the “virtual”…
Biennial Report 2020-22
2020-22 saw us into our second decade as a research centre. The background to this was the pandemic, which presented many challenges. We adapted and supported each other.
When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans
A withering analysis of the tragic susceptibility of interventionist peace deals to precipitate ongoing violence.
Addressing Ethical Gaps in ‘Technology for Good’: Foregrounding Care and Capabilities
This paper identifies persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.
When friction becomes the norm: Antagonism, discourse and planetary data turbulence (2022)
The ideal of unfettered data circulation has fallen into crisis.