DataSyn is a free monthly newsletter from the Center for Global Digital Justice featuring content hosted on Bot Populi.
DataSyn provides concise and relevant analysis on all matters concerning Big Tech. In an era where Big Tech has become the epochal problem, the spirit behind DataSyn is one of cautious aspiration, critical nuance, and despite everything...a relentless optimism about the digital being a means of equitable development.
The (only somewhat) namesake of DataSyn, Project Cybersyn, was a 70s public technology initiative in Chile under Salvador Allende. Cybersyn was ahead of its time in encapsulating a powerful idea – that digital innovation could synergize the efficiencies of computing for an equitable and free society. In times when state-controlled data is prone to becoming a site of authoritarianism, the DataSyn team ironically thinks back to this short-lived, imperfect experiment to remind itself of how, even as we rightly fear the concentration of digital power in the hands of market or state, there remains the imperative to preserving a public, development oriented role for technology.
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