Decolonising the Field, Decolonising Ourselves
Recently, we kicked off phase II of the decolonising process for the digital rights field DFF is facilitating together with European Digital Rights (EDRi). Over the next 12 months, a group of different stakeholders will work to collaboratively design a robust, multi-year programme to set in motion a decolonising process for the digital rights field in Europe. The vision we are working towards is […]
Decolonising Phase II: Ready to Fumble
On 17 and 18 June, DFF and European Digital Rights (EDRi) held the kick-off meeting that started the second phase of our decolonising process. Over the course of one year, we will collaborate on designing a multi-year programme to start decolonising the digital rights field. This process includes more than 30 people and roughly 24 […]
Creating Conditions for a Decolonised Digital Rights Field
This post was co-authored by Laurence Meyer and Sarah Chander. During the DFF strategy meeting 2021, participants organised two sessions on “decolonising digital rights.” A public panel discussion on “Decolonising Data” was also held on the sidelines of the strategy meeting, made possible largely because the strategy meeting happened online for the first time. Here […]
Envisioning a Decolonised Digital Rights Field – and Charting Next Steps
This post was co-authored by Nani Jansen Reventlow and Claire Fernandez. How do we create change? Numerous books, essays and TED talks have been dedicated to this question, and courses have been designed to equip us to change policy, workplace environments, and numerous other contexts. A crucial ingredient seems to be having a vision of […]
Decolonising Digital Rights: Why It Matters and Where Do We Start?
This speech was given by DFF director, Nani Jansen Reventlow, on 9 October as the keynote for the 2020 Anthropology + Technology Conference. The power structures underlying centuries of exploitation by one group of another are still here. Besides the fact that we, in reality, still have over 60 colonised territories around the world today, […]
