Digitaler Kolonialismus

Colonialism in the Digital Age – How Tech Empires Divide the World Among Themselves

Innovative, powerful, ruthless: Few stories are told as often as that of the unstoppable rise of tech companies to the top of the globally connected world. Only one chapter is left out: the bloody price paid by the Global South. Tech journalist Ingo Dachwitz and globalization expert Sven Hilbig shed light on this blind spot in their new book – thoroughly researched and compellingly narrated.

The rise of tech companies to the forefront of the connected world comes at a bloody price. In countries like Kenya or India, people do the backbreaking work behind social media and artificial intelligence. They extract the raw materials for our devices and suffer under technologically equipped dictators. The great powers of the USA, Europe, and China not only participate in this game but also change the rules to their advantage. Digital policy has long since become geopolitics. In the competition among digital colonial powers, the only goal is victory, while the Global South gets crushed.

“In digital colonialism, data and profits flow in only one direction.” Renata Ávila Pinto, human rights defender. AI and data, raw materials and repression: A comprehensive analysis of digital colonialism. An eye-opener for readers: Why digitization is based on exploitation. The role of Europe alongside the digital empires of the USA and China. A highly readable blend of in-depth analysis and moving reports. Based on collaborations and interviews with researchers and activists from the Global South. Featuring a powerful appeal from Renata Ávila Pinto, Executive Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation.