Resisting Big Tech Empires

Event organised by Global Justice Now in partnership with the Balanced Economy Project.

*This event has now sold out. You can watch the opening and closing plenaries online via livestream instead.*

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Speakers include:

• Cory Doctorow, multi-award-winning novelist and campaigner
• Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change, India
• Sofia Scasserra, Our World is Not for Sale, Argentina
• James Meadway, Macrodose podcast
• Khem Rogaly, Common Wealth
• Cecilia Rikap, author of The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud
• Dan McQuillan, author of Resisting AI
• Nick Srnicek, author of Silicon Empires and Platform Capitalism
• Rosa Curling, Foxglove
• Nafeez Ahmed, author of Alt Reich
  
• Sophia Goodfriend, journalist on AI and war
• Rebel Tech Alliance

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The technology that underpins nearly every aspect of our lives is controlled by a tiny handful of corporations. These big tech empires surveil and monetise our every move, lock us into their platforms, and use their power to bully governments and shape the world to their advantage. In their search for profit they’re fuelling division and advancing the far right globally, facilitating a vast transfer of wealth upwards, intensifying automated warfare, and accelerating environmental destruction. Yet they still pose as the visionaries of the future.

There is much that is unprecedented about the technological revolution currently unfolding. At the same time it echoes older histories of enclosure and dispossession, now unfolding at exponential speed and scale. But the future does not have to belong to unaccountable tech monopolies. By challenging corporate power, democratising digital infrastructure, and putting human and planetary needs before profit, we can reclaim technology as a public good and build a better future for everyone.

Join us to hear from multi-award-winning novelist and campaigner Cory Doctorow, as well as a host of other incredible speakers, and reclaim a future that has been co-opted by big tech.

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