[Bigdatasur] Mapping AI in/from the Majority World

[Ranjit Singh]

Hello Everyone:

I am reaching out today to share not one, but two new Data & Society
publications that might be of interest to Big Data from the Global South
Initiative. We have released both A Primer on AI in/from the Majority
World:  An Empirical Site and a Standpoint
<https://datasociety.net/library/a-primer-on-ai-in-from-the-majority-world/>,
and Data & Society faculty fellow Dr. Murali Shanmugavelan’s syllabus
for Critical
Caste and Tech Studies <https://www.criticalcastetechstudies.net/>. Both
are part of an ongoing body of work at D&S that reframes current
understandings of AI and data-centric technology in what we refer to as the
majority world.

A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World: An Empirical Site and a
Standpoint
<https://datasociety.net/library/a-primer-on-ai-in-from-the-majority-world/> is
a curated collection of over 160 thematic works — books, journal articles,
newspaper articles, blog posts, podcasts, lectures, and interviews. It
offers pathways to explore the presence of data and AI in the geographic
regions that are home to the majority of the human population. We are
publishing it in both English
<https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09142022_AIMW_Primer_eng_final.pdf>
and Spanish
<https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/09142022_AIMW_Primer_esp.pdf>
.

A complementary resource, Dr. Shanmugavelan’s Critical Caste and Technology
Studies syllabus <https://www.criticalcastetechstudies.net/> is the first
of its kind, and a rich starting point for exploring contemporary dynamics
of technology and power. It offers a communication-, media-, and
technology-based critique of contemporary caste narratives, and aims to
unravel how caste is embedded in the field of technology.

I hope you will find these resources useful in mapping the field of AI
in/from the majority world that we are all trying to shape in our own ways.
:D

Cheers,

Ranjit Singh
Researcher | AI on the Ground,
Data & Society
http://ranjitsingh.me/
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