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The 147th Digital Rights Salon is a themed edition on Digital Colonialism. With international guests, we shed light on the global power and exploitation relations behind digitalisation. For example, the outsourcing of precarious labour behind AI applications such as ChatGPT to countries in the Global South. It is about the ruthless exploitation of raw materials needed for smartphones and electric cars. And it’s about the dangerous infrastructure power of tech barons like Elon Musk.

The rise of tech companies and the promise of progress through digitalisation have colonial traits; this evening also serves to search for alternatives: Where can we support the fight against Digital Colonialism? What does a future without big tech look like? And what needs to happen to turn the hype surrounding digital sovereignty into an anti-colonial project?