Global Voices’ CMO identifies and tracks key themes and narrative frames that emerge around events, trends and other phenomena and explains the context and subtext of local, vernacular, and multilingual media.
Join us at the Public GVSummit2024 (https://summit2024.globalvoices.org/register/) on Friday 6 at the Workshop: “How to spot a narrative: Decoding chaotic information ecosystems” https://sched.co/1pl64 and Saturday 7 at the Panel: “The power of narratives: How data governance is framed and discussed—and how it affects you” https://sched.co/1qsHI
🗨 Language isn't just words; it's a window into how we see the world.
One of Global Voices' biggest pleasures is learning new and interesting phrases in the languages spoken by our wide community, because every culture has it's unique way of expressing life's moments.
The #GVSummit2024 was the perfect opportunity to learn more about how words tell stories.
Global Voices Summit 2024: Day 2
#gvsummit2024
[English below] Las comidas y los antojitos siempre han sido un interés de nuestra #ComunidadGlobalVoices: no solo es una oportunidad de explorar otras culturas, sus tradiciones y sabores, sino que nos ayuda a compartir un placer en común: comer y probar cosas nuevas.
Para el #GVSummit2024 le pedimos a las personas participantes que trajeran un dulce especial de su país. El resultado: un gran banquete con sabores de todo el mundo.
¿Qué dulce de tu país compartirías? 👀
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Food and snacks have always been an interest of our #GVCommunity: not only it's an opportunity to explore other cultures, their traditions and flavors, but it helps us share a common pleasure: eating and trying new things.
For the #GVSummit2024 we asked participants to bring a special sweet and snack from their country. The result: a great banquet with flavors from all over the world.
What sweet from your country would you share?
Automated Surveillance & Targeted Killing in Gaza - #DNL34
With Matt Mahmoudi (Researcher & Advisor on AI & Human Rights at Amnesty Tech/Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities at Uni. of Cambridge, DK/IR/UK), Sophia Goodfriend (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Initiative, Journalist, +972 Magazine, IL), Khalil Dewan (PhD Nomos Fellow in Law at SOAS University of London, UK). Moderated by Matthias Monroy (Editor of the German civil rights journal Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP and nd.Der Tag, DE).
On November 17, 2023, amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza, reports began to surface of Palestinians being held en masse between two large structures on Salah al-Din Road, the main north–south thoroughfare in Gaza. Israeli authorities had announced the opening of an evacuation corridor to allow Palestinians fleeing bombardment of their homes and neighborhoods in the north to move to Israeli-designated safe zones in the south. Before the military would allow Palestinian families to pass, however, they were forced to have their faces scanned. With airstrikes and shelling ongoing – which have killed over 39,000 at the time of writing – the Israeli occupying army required Palestinians, already the world’s most heavily surveilled community, to submit to the extraction of their biometric information as a condition of their being allowed to reach safety.
In his presentation, Matt Mahmoudi describes how Gaza has gone from being the world’s largest open-air prison to an open-air exposition for technologies of violence. Since Israel imposed a near complete siege on Gaza in October 2023, it has been using artificial intelligence to further streamline its campaign of killing, destruction, and violence in Gaza. Occupied Palestine has long been home to vast architectures of surveillance and control. This talk outlines some of the key algorithmic practices undergirding Israel’s system of oppression, in particular movement restrictions, against Palestinians.
Under Israel’s deepening occupation ove
Visualising Threat - #DNL34
Shona Illingworth (Artist and Professor of Art, Film and Media, University of Kent, DK/UK), Anthony Downey (Professor of Visual Culture in the Middle East and North Africa, Birmingham City University, UK).
We increasingly live in a contemporary global (dis)order defined by aerial forms of hyper-surveillance. In the shadow of physical and psychological threats, indefinite aerial surveillance, sustained bombardment, and the routine deployment of Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV), entire populations now live under conditions of unrelenting anxiety. Given the degree to which these systems are consistently powered and maintained by Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is a profound lack of transparency when it comes to understanding the fatal interlocking of global surveillance technologies and automated targeting networks. Throughout the following conversation, Shona Illingworth and Anthony Downey will address these concerns through a discussion of their ongoing work on the Airspace Tribunal.
Established by Illingworth and human rights lawyer Nick Grief in 2018, the Airspace Tribunal is an international people’s tribunal that was formed to consider, and continues to develop, the case for and against a proposed new human right to live without physical or psychological threat from above. Focusing on Illingworth’s related artwork, Topologies of Air, and Downey’s research into predictive AI and pre-emptive warfare, they will explore two interrelated questions: how can we more effectively deploy creative practices to critically address the weaponization of AI and, through incorporating the respective fields of global security, human rights, and trauma studies, how can post-disciplinary research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences more effectively engage with lived experience as an integral part of these debates.
Disarming the Kill Cloud - #DNL34
With Lucy Suchman (Professor Emerita, Lancaster University, UK/CA), Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud (Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, NO), Marijn Hoijtink (Associate Professor in International Relations, Principle Investigator PLATFORM WARS, University of Antwerp, NL/BE), Elke Schwarz (Associate Professor, Queen Mary University London, UK). Moderated by Jutta Weber (Professor for Media, Culture & Society, Paderborn University , DE).
The panel examines closely the materiality, epistemological logic, and proliferation of military AI-driven human-machine assemblages and their highly problematic sociotechnical practices. In doing so, it seeks to find effective ways to destabilize the military AI hype with its rhetorics of responsibility and to disrupt the industrial-military surveillance complex. Lucy Suchman discusses 'Disarming the Kill Cloud: Investigating the limits of data', in which she considers how the naturalisation of data functions as an enabling device for the operations of targeted assassination, and how questioning the production of data might help to further delegitimise these operations. Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud will draw attention to how the past conditions our violent present. To do this, he will introduce the notion of martial epistemology to highlight the importance of understanding military knowledge production to see how we can disrupt the alarming effects of present and future trajectories of martial operations. In her presentation "Platform Wars: Data, Digital Surveillance and the Future of Warfare", Marijn Holtijnk proposes to understand 'the platform' as a paradigmatic technology and representative of how today's wars are thought, waged, and lived. Elke Schwarz's presentation "The Hacker Way: Moral Decision Logics with Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems" argues that such developments in military AI reflect a prioritization of 'know-how' over 'know-what'. In turn, this jeopardizes not only global security but also t
Investigating the Kill Cloud - #DNL34
With Lisa Ling (Whistleblower, Technologist, former Technical Sergeant, US Air Force Drone Surveillance Programme, US), Jack Poulson (Executive Director, Tech Inquiry, US), Naomi Colvin (Whistleblower Advocate and UK/Ireland/Belgium Programme Director at Blueprint for Free Speech, UK), Joana Moll (Artist and Researcher, Professor of Networks, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, ES/DE). Moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Institute, Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE).
This keynote brings together the four fellows of the Disruption Network Institute to present the results of their research to an audience for the first time. The research of Lisa Ling takes a closer look at the “Kill Cloud,” a rapidly growing networked structure of global reach with the primary intent of dominating every conceivable spectrum of war. Using unclassified public information, she aks to engage a newer connect and surveil military paradigm that expands the current notion of a battlefield. The second presentation introduces the research by Jack Poulson, the Executive Director of Tech Inquiry. Tech Inquiry began with a singular focus on fusing proactively published government datasets with analysis of journalism. Naomi Colvin’s research project identifies where debates about AI safety and AI in the military intersect or fail to; firstly at the level of ideology and secondly at the level of practical policy, with a particular focus on the UK. Joana Moll’s research “The User and the Beast” analyses the role of Ad Tech in expanding the capabilities of the Kill Cloud, reinforcing a co-dependency that silently blurs the boundaries between the military and the civilian sectors, posing significant threats to democratic processes by benefiting totalitarian modes of operating at a global scale.
