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botpopuli has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in December 2020. Resources botpopuli has populated their site with include: • Resisting the AI Missionaries » Bot Populi • The Stirring Winds of Change - DataSyn • Algorithms Don’t Fire Workers, Employers Do » Bot Populi • Enclosure of Legibility » Bot Populi • The Multiple Scales of Resistance - DataSyn • The Digital Precariat and Deteriorating Health: Analyses Based on Latin American Dependent Capitalism • Workers vs. Platforms: The Battle That Will Define the Future of Labor • “Poetry is not a Luxury”: Cultural work as Essential Labor • Invisible Hands, Visible Futures: The Rise of Africa’s Data Worker Movement in the Age of AI • 2026 May Day Special Issue - DataSyn • A Brief History of Global AI Governance » Bot Populi • Freedom of Hate Speech? » Bot Populi • Digital Governance in an Unraveling World - DataSyn • Editorial | March 2026 » Bot Populi • Tragedy, Farce, or Ashes of the Old Order? » Bot Populi • The Shifting Sands of Tech Politics - DataSyn • Alternative Futures and Troubled Presents - DataSyn • Possibilism in the Age of AI » Bot Populi • The Mythology of Platform Capitalism - DataSyn • Whither Digital Economy? » Bot Populi • Movies That Don’t Move Anyone: In Defense of Embodied Filmmaking » Bot Populi • The Cost of Convenience » Bot Populi • Platform Power and the Future of Work: Labor Frontiers in the Cross-Border Digital Economy • WSIS and the Movement to Democratize Communication • On TAAK • Trade Rules vs. Tax Rights: Africa’s Digital Dilemma • Between Tariffs and Tech: What Will Europe Choose? • Trump’s Tariffs and the Big Tech Takeover • Analyzing the India-UK Free Trade Agreement • Dirty Laundry: My Journey Through the Algorithm from Soweto to Nairobi’s Tech Hub • The Algorithm’s Ghost Workers and the Illusion of Opportunity • Platform Capitalism in Emergency Healthcare • Subscribe to our newsletter, DataSyn on Substack • Moving Towards Local and People-Centered Artificial Intelligence • Fourth Agricultural Revolution: Who Bears The Costs, Who Gains The Benefits? • The Golden Age of AI: Power, Politics, and Trade • Trumpism and Techno-Politics at the Periphery • The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Gig Worker • The Challenges of Digitization and Democracy in Peripheral Countries • Just-in-Time Knowledge: Digital Technology and The Neoliberal Transformation of Education • The Year Big Tech Came for Democracy • Gendering Information Integrity: Lessons from Feminist Scholarship to Media Policy • The Human Experience of Information Integrity in 2024 • A ‘How-To’ Guide to Transforming the Media and Information Ecosystem • UN Global Principles on Information Integrity: A Missed Opportunity • The Circuits of Information in the Year of Elections • The Draghi Report: A View from the South • The UN Tax Treaty and Digital Justice Today • Big Tech from the South: Thinking Beyond Data Colonialism in Latin America • Statistical Sovereignty, Democracy and Big Tech: Challenges of Datafication for National States • The Global Digital Compact is Here: What Now for Civil Society? • DataSyn October 2024 Issue • Algorithmic Shackles: Eroding Worker Autonomy in the Majority World • Developers vs. App Stores: A Case for Separation Remedies • DataSyn September 2024 Issue • Global Digital Compact: Back-sliding to a Failed Free-market Playbook? • On Global Platforms and Local Capitalisms • The Imperatives of Digital Governance Today • DataSyn August 2024 Issue • Man vs Machine: Whose AI Are We Talking About? • DataSyn July 2024 Issue • DMA, One Year On: Taking Stock of the EU’s Attempts to Rein In Big Tech • ‘Competitiveness without Competition’: What EU’s Proposed Digital Economy Reboot Gets Wrong • European Introspection Standing in the Way of Global Leadership • DataSyn June 2024 Issue • Soft Power Histrionics: Surveying the EU’s Global Gateway • Championing an Industrial Policy for Public Good, Not Corporate Profits • A Tale of Twin Transitions: Why EU’s Green and Digital Agendas are at Odds • DataSyn May 2024 Issue • EcoMinassat Podcast • The Global Digital Compact We Need for People and the Planet • Labor and Artificial Intelligence: Emergent Frontiers of Struggle • 2024 May Day Special Issue - DataSyn • Reassessing Big Tech’s Impact and Disruptive Force in Africa’s Fintech Landscape • How Fintech Became the Gateway to Predatory Lending in Sub-Saharan Africa • Towards Fairer Horizons: Cooperativist Solutions to Tackle Platform Capitalism • The Thiruvananthapuram Declaration on A New Innovation Ecosystem for Our Collective Digital Futures | IT for Change • DataSyn Newsletter: March 2024 • DataSyn Newsletter: Feb 2024 • What Does Trade Have to Do with AI Regulation? • A New Colonialist Wave through Digital Trade Agreements • Uncle Sam and Big Tech: The End of a Love Affair? • Owning Platform Cooperativism(s): With More Voices, Sans Tech Solutionism • Big Tech and News Media in India: The Frenemies Who Control What We Read • Right to Repair and the Fight against Planned Obsolescence • The Evolution of Big Tech Litigation • Decoding Meta’s Infrastructural Turn in Africa: Access with Strings • Dethroning the All-powerful AI: Developing Ethics for a Demystified AI • AI is Africa’s New Growth Mantra, but Can it Fix Development? • Feeding the World with More Data? • Responsible AI’s Inherent Trade-Offs: Let’s Talk About Resources, Rights and Power • The New Silk Route: On China, Neo-colonialism and Cyber Extractivism in Africa • Who Learns and Who Profits in the Era of Artificial Intelligence? • What’s Public about India’s Digital Public Infrastructures? • Generative AI and Education: Adopting a Critical Approach • Missing the Target? Why the OECD Updates Fail to See the Full Picture on Digitalization • Flying the KITE High against Digital Colonialism: FOSS in the Era of EdTech • The Recipe for India’s Gatekeeper Regulation • Pragmatic Deal or Tragic Compromise? Reflections on the UN SG’s Policy Brief on the GDC • Governing Food System Data: Is the UN Committee on World Food Security Up to the Task? • Meet the New Influencers: Artificial Intelligence • Artificial Data for Artificial Intelligence: Could This Be a Game Changer? • How Latin America Became a Theater of the US-China Tech War • “Unions Raise the Floor, Co-ops Can Raise the Ceiling”: Erik Forman • Labor and Platform Capital: Dispatches from Europe • Lessons from the EU Platform Work Directive • From Land to Data: Value-extraction in Smart Cities • Crypto Imperialism and Financial Inclusion in Africa • Towards the Construction of a Feminist Digital Justice Agenda: Challenges and Proposals • Digital Transformation for Gender Equality: Will ‘Inclusion’ and ‘Diversity’ Alone Get Us There? • Making Platforms Work for Workers – Data Commons and Platform Co-ops • The Global Debate on Food Security Data: More Open-washing? • Gender-based Abuse on the Metaverse: The New Internet is Being Coded on a Toxic Palimpsest • Platforms and the Risk of Precarity • Who Run the World (of platforms)? Algorithmic Bosses and Workers’ Rights • Platforms – The Origin Story • The Human Labor of Automation • Big Tech Makes Political Choices About Our Data: We Should do the Same • Digital Justice is a Matter of Environmental Justice. Or at least, it Should be • Dismantling Digital Enclosures: Reflections from the State of Big Tech • A Southern Perspective: The Missing Piece in ERFs • “The Best Platforms Remain Unwritten…:” Alistair Fraser on Data Grabs, Slow Computing and More • Platform Capitalism in Murky Financial Waters • ‘Mind the Gap’: Sexuality Education in the Digital Era in China • Big Tech is Ready to ‘Transform’ Food Systems, but for whose Benefit? • Great Men Simply Know Better: How the Twitter Takeover Exposes One of Big Tech’s Most Harmful Traits • The Nth Rooms and the Ungovernable Digital Bodies • Resisting Patriarchal Logics of Digital ID Systems • Fintech Wild West: Whose Duty to Act? • Fintech and Poverty in and Beyond the Pandemic • Capitalizing on Vulnerabilities: When Surveillance Capitalism Meets Mental Health • Artificial Intelligence and the Feminist Decolonial Imagination • Time for Upgrade: Why Competition Law is Not Enough for the Platform Economy • Feminist Responses to Technology-Facilitated Violence • Davos 2022 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution - Amay Korjan and Avantika Tiwari • The Assetization of our Social Life- Kean Birch • Rescuing Our Common Agenda from the Post-democratic Abyss • A Platformed Response to Hate Speech Against Women • Feminist Re-imagining of Platform Planet | Special Issue • Protecting Dissent • Social Relations under Surveillance Capitalism: Is Solidarity Still Possible? • Digging Deeper: Assessing Big Tech’s Capture of the Internet’s Infrastructure • “I feel empowered…but you have to have a thick skin” • What Is Feminist Digital (In)justice? • Smart Cities in India: Of Data Governance and Democratic Deficits • Putting Users Back in Control of Car Data to Fuel Innovations • Sign up to DataSyn! • Worker-Led Alternatives: A Line of Hope for New Platform Futures • Fixing Digital Capitalism: Learning from China’s Playbook • Data Sovereignty and Alternative Development Models • Why Metaphors for Data Matter • Why India Needs a Legal Instrument to Tackle Online Hate • Recognizing People's Sovereignty Over Data • Choosing Public Good Over Corporate Power • Beyond Profit and Efficiency • Opportunities for Strategic Intervention • Memeing Democracy • The Exception Cannot Be Made the Norm: Covid-19 and the Right to Health • Cyber Safe Girl: How Not to Write a Cyber Safety e-Book • Stream the Bot Populi Podcast • Seven Questions Unpacking Cancel Culture • The Valley and the Virus • Deep Unlearning? AI and Africa’s Struggling Public Institutions • Trump and CDA Section 230: The End of an Internet Exception? • Networked Desolation in Indonesia’s Platform Tourism Industry • A 3-Point Agenda for Platform Workers; as if the South Matters • How Public Sector Workers and Unions can Shape the Digital Economy • Beauty and the Platform Economy • ‘Crowds as Code’ in the Global Data Value Chain • Articulating a Feminist Response to Online Hate Speech: First Steps • Avoiding the Trap of the Singular Data Story • Imagining a Feminist Future of Work in the Global South • Bot Populi Home