How does the tech industry participate in exclusion and statelessness?
In Assam, India, Wipro Technologies built databases for recording citizenship that helped render 1.9 million people in India illegal.
There are large scale protests ongoing in India against these tech-facilitated changes to citizenship and related policy shifts that seek to make India a Hindu state.
Tech facilitated religious and racial exclusion is also happening in the US as companies like Palantir intensify data collection and speed up the tracking of people for arrest and deportation.
This learning club examines the role of tech workers in facilitating religious and racial exclusion and looks to the history of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa to help us see these global shifts and learn from examples of organizing around ethics in tech.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
Central Library
330 Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92101
Saturday, January 25 - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
In Assam, India, Wipro Technologies built databases for recording citizenship that helped render 1.9 million people in India illegal.
There are large scale protests ongoing in India against these tech-facilitated changes to citizenship and related policy shifts that seek to make India a Hindu state.
Tech facilitated religious and racial exclusion is also happening in the US as companies like Palantir intensify data collection and speed up the tracking of people for arrest and deportation.
This learning club examines the role of tech workers in facilitating religious and racial exclusion and looks to the history of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa to help us see these global shifts and learn from examples of organizing around ethics in tech.
Admission/Cost: FREE
Location:
Central Library
330 Park Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92101
Saturday, January 25 - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
