Suggested Readings

Ali, Syed Mustafa

1. Prolegomenon to the Decolonization of Internet Governance (2018)
2. A Brief Introduction to Decolonial Computing

Avila, Renata

1. Digital Sovereignty or Digital Colonialism (July 2018)

Butt, Danny

1. New International Information Order (NIIO) Revisited: Global Algorithmic Governance and Neocolonialism. The Fibreculture Journal 27 (March 8, 2016). (this article contains a useful summary of what happened to the original non aligned movement with regards to information and communication technologies)

Couldry, Nick & Mejias, Ulises

1. The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism (2019)
2. Data Colonialism: Rethinking Big Data’s Relation to the Contemporary Subject (Sept 2018)
3. Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back. US, UK.

Mejias, Ulises

1. Why the Global South should nationalise its data (December 2019)
2. To fight data colonialism, we need a Non-Aligned Tech Movement (September 2020)

Milan, Stefania & Treré, Emiliano

1. Big Data from the South(s): Beyond Data Universalism

Mohamed, Shakir & Png, Marie-Therese & Isaac, William

1. Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence

Ortiz Freuler, Juan

1. The shape of the internet: A tale of power and money – pg 31-37 in ThinkSouth (Oct 2019) [Spanish version here]
2. The case for a digital non-aligned movement (June 2020) [Spanish version here]
3. TikTok, Trump and the need for a digital non-aligned movement (Aug 2020) [spanish version here]
4. The weaponization of private corporate infrastructure: Internet fragmentation and coercive diplomacy in the 21st century (Nov, 2022)
5. A Non-Aligned Tech Movement to take us beyond the age of informational capitalism (Feb 2025)
6. Infrastructural power: State strategies for internet control (May 2025)

Ricaurte Quijano, Paola

1. Data Epistemologies, The Coloniality of Power, and Resistance (March 2019)