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S. Led war in iraq and afghanistan those were the headlines about with more news in half an hour here on aljazeera next its all hail the algorithm here on our desire to stay with us. As donald trump been good for America Everything is in disarray the media of course taken every bit of bait that they can to demolish the fact that america has been a force for good in the world. From the American People get inspiration from him and the other half cringe your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society thats the bottom line. You think of some of the Biggest Companies in the world today theres google Amazon Microsoft facebook which are all of them big tech with algorithms at that one more than just uses all customers will these businesses with generators of data they need us to like them for them to be indispensable because the more that we use them the more data we produce were in the midst of a great race for dot and Big Tech Companies around the chips. For the past 3 years academics nicole dri analysts have been investigating a phenomenon they call dot of colonialism. Well the scales of context may have changed they say colonialism same underlying functions of empire building extraction and appropriation remain the new lang grab going on theres not land thats being grabbed its us its human life the acquisition the construction of data valuable data to corporate use out of the floor of the lines thats the lag right going on and thats why the work is the only one who does justice to that lets think for instance of all the and use her license agreements or the terms of use that we read whenever we sign up for a new social media platform and if we think about the process of being asked to agree to something that we cannot even understand when signing away certain rights signing away our property in this act i think its a very interesting were not for one moment saying. Colonialism today with data involved the same horrific level of violence that was involved in the beginnings of columbia this. Week saying that the core of historic colonialism was the force to involve people in a massive new system a new order a new organization of the World Economy in the history of colonialism weve had different empires terms of course we can think of this kranish empire the British Empire i think we would say at this point in history in terms of data colonialism we have 2 centers of power and we have the United States on one side and china in the other and of course we know the american corporations very well in terms of Google Facebook amazon maybe we dont know the chinese corporations very well because their reach is just beginning to expand beyond china so far china has been kind of like an internal colony but we are starting to see how these corporations. The infrastructure developed in try. You know its starting to expand to 2 different parts of the world including asia and africa. But chinas biggest private company well way technologys africa has been a goldmine of so its countries like south Africa Nigeria kenya which is where now have delivered some of the biggest most rapidly growing telecom its. Has studied the way effect here in kenya theyre Building Products for example that are suited to the African Market the cheapest mobile phone that you can get in various African Markets its a chinese phone so you will not for a moment but if you looked on multiple people to study and they are building relationships with governments they are providing infrastructure so while we has provided a lot of infrastructure for. Surveillance in kenya and i see team kenya to work in every country with its developed by the people somewhere in the middle and thats really useful for governments here so we advise you know on that Government Data centers on the economy and services or anything else we can share those expenses from around the world and the nice thing is of course of the benefits of people connected its all business so theyre generating revenue as well but the other piece of the chinese influence is the surreptitious war theres a lot of questions about Data Collection with technology thats coming in from china and in some ways its the other side of the coin right there is a whole lot of data thats being taken out from african countries and from African Citizens to be kept handled used by people who are not necessarily responsible or answerable to African People so while he does not access peoples dado cell data so i dont think that we are the kind of company. That benefits off peoples data the only data that we are using is just to improve our products and sell. Such as using Artificial Intelligence our smartphones in our Network Equipment so that it can in improve be faster there are skeptics who would question adams assertion after all most Big Tech Companies do exploit use a darter in some way however even if while way doesnt do it there are other chinese operations in africa that collect and make extensive use of peoples data. Here in nairobi the dominance of chinese tech is undeniable from telecommunication lines to Satellite Networks right down to the planes in peoples hands and the apps on those fights Chinese Companies have this market and much of the data it produces in its cross trends in holdings for instance sells to over 40 percent of the mobile market in Subsaharan Africa its fun and so on to the brand names techno i tell and in phoenix but its strategy doesnt end with the hardware data driven apps like the Music Streaming Service play and Digital Payment platform pompei add to a growing repository of data around africa uses and can help boost money making opportunities for transients when you think about Digital Partners and i think there was any i think the thing that gets lost is that the primary objective it was about money was fundamentally about using power using culture using all these kinds of tools to impose one society in another societies throughout the 1st society could make money off of that where you define cornelias and like that then you really start to see the resonances in china has been investing in africa many parts of asia for 2030 years very systematically is never pretended that it is doing anything other than expanding its economic interests it does not use civilizing rhetoric because it doesnt need to lets contrast that for the moment with a company like microsoft which talks about democratizing ai or facebook. That is concerned to give as it were connection cometary can just be a privilege for some of the rich and powerful and needs to be something that everyone shares. Facebook has made a big push to present itself as a benevolent force to get people online since 2013 the company has been leading a giant project called internet dot all sort of gateway to the World Wide Web for those with poor connectivity. The app that serves as the portal to facebooks version of the internet is called free basics and its been launched in at least 60 countries more than half of them in africa the idea is to provide access to select sites without data charges in effect its a stripped down version of the internet that has one very important component guaranteed connection with facebook and guaranteed possibilities of data extraction which is why despite the companys slick marketing not everyone is convinced that this is an entirely selfless exercise injurious cimbali is a leading to the rights advocate i think whats most interesting in the it what ill call technicalities is the rush to connect the unconnected and the rush to retain the connected in very specific platforms a lot of these actors will do anything and everything to make sure at some point or other these users go through their platforms because its all about the data its all about how much data can i get about peoples of arkansas ads so that you know concrete predictive things to keep them hooked into what im able to offer and therefore the world will keep churning theres no way that a lot of these Tech Companies will be able to behave in their home countries the way they behave in the developing world there is no way that you would be able to roll out a project as big as free basics without some kind of check or balance with some without some kind of ethic or. There was no effort to even say this is what this mean. This is how this will work for you and that is really telling right of what they think that African People want and or need from the internet projects that are largely in this case emerging from a Silicon Valley or western america centric approach to connecting the unconnected i really theyre deeply steeped in the same condescending ways of doing development so this notion that give them something that is better than nothing i mean why would anyone not want that data colonialism is framed in terms of a civilizational mission when people are connected we can accomplish some Pretty Amazing things just like historical colonialism was framed as well in terms of bringing progress bringing something that is good and beneficial for humanity we can get closer to the people that we care about we can get access to jobs and opportunities and i do our participation is expected and our petition pretty soon we are told its for our own good meanwhile all of this extraction and capturing of the you know is kind of happening in the background we dont realizing the consequences d the Facebook Free basics model which is basically about expanding for facebook the demean of data extraction across the world at a time when demand for facebook is beginning to fall amongst younger people in particular in the socalled west. Is very interesting just as in historic colonialism the apparent weakness of the colonized populations that lack of weapons their lack of certain results is the lack of an economic structure suggested to the colonizers that they need to be colonized they need to have whatever the colonial system would offer them to bind them in. Free basics is just one of facebooks many initiatives across africa. Facebooks latest push here in kenya is called express why fight companies teamed up with local Snack Service providers to instore why 5 hotspots like here in the mass my town of eagle on the outskirts of nairobi. Jerry name basia is a hairdresser who signed up as of into facebooks express why. He gets a commission on every dot a bundle he sells his customers say they look like they do his 1st book because even myself i use it and they find their bundle keep the cheaper. Compared to other networks you get the 1st round of the 1100 in business for free yeah. You run. Yes they do they find it cheaper to fund it when the book and then the doctors dont express why fi has been an undeniable success here it has made web access cheaper for People Living in undeserved locations then just so many people are living i dont want a corner to be. However for those studying the activities of facebook and other Big Tech Companies in kenya its impossible to ignore the huge potential for data mining last year facebook was pushed to admit that it had added its own software to the wife i Access Points that enabled non facebook data such as customer names and phone numbers to directly flow to the corporation while Facebook Says the purpose of the software Eastern Shore that hotspots of functioning well theres no clarity on just how much additional daughter is being collected and how thats being used a lot of these companies arent african theyre not even based in kenya in africa forget kenya long so what is a kenyan citizens of birth to do an American Company uses their day to sell their day to markets it you know as a product and without their consent without their ability to intervene to appeal to a court system thats kind of the gray area that were falling into the lot of these big you know that. Tech companies. Facebook isnt the only Big Tech Company playing the connectivity card here in cannes last year alphabet the Parent Company whose most famous brand is google signed a deal with Telecom Kenya to quote connect the unconnected using buildings. Buildings loom is a path breaking project thats been 8 years in the making and the idea is deceptively simple use High Altitude balloons to provide Internet Connectivity in remote and hard to reach parts of the world kenya is where luna is making its commercial debut i spoke with Charles Merida he doesnt represent loon but its more well known Sister CompanyGoogle Googles mission from the get go was to really get a lot of the africans who are Offline Online and to make sure they get online in a more affordable and have better conduct content as well as relevance and the mission around noon is to ensure that we are able to deliver connectivity to the most remote parts of the continent and around the world so i am proud to say that here in kenya is the 1st commercial agreement between noon our Sister Company and telco kenya were amazed to be seen is what standards of. Accountability there will be will that mean that people are restricted to only using google esque sites for instance that remains to be question what data will become acted in the process of connecting people i put some of these questions to charles he made it clear he couldnt say much more about lou after all he doesnt work for that company he did tell me this though about googles approach to Data Collection. So what we do at google is we ensure that we have employed a user trust that is something thats really important and that users understand exactly what were doing with the data that we have on them we also ensure that theyre able to manage and control so transparency ability to. Manage and control the data that we have on our users is really critical and when its so transparent people get joy the magic of Google Charles uses a lot of positive p. R. Speak especially when it comes to discussing matters relating to data that doesnt come as a big surprise because data ownership access privacy is an incredibly sensitive legal and political issue across the World Governments and regulators have been looking at their data laws more and more seriously but perhaps the most widely publicized is the European Unions general Data Protection regulation otherwise known as g. D. P. Which set a Global Benchmark for strengthening individual rights of the personal data thats really the discrepancy that were seeing here is that western governments western societies have more space to keep these companies in check and to force them to abide by their local social standards and countries in other parts of the world and thats where the corner is a label really starts to become evident there is not enough space for ordinary africans citizens to push their governments on these issues theres not enough space for us to actually demand a different standard of treatment in july has a point just take a look at the state of data regulation around the world and youll see how stock the imbalances according to a study by the law firm deal a piper north america or australia much of europe and china have what they would classify as heavy will robust regulation for many countries across africa regulation ranges from moderate to 0 the kenyan government says theyre working on it but the speed at which they are developing pulis ease is being outstripped by the speed at which private plays are revolutionizing telecoms and Internet Connectivity i dont think theres anything particularly wrong with private sector actors taking the lead role if especially again they have the resources. And the wherewithal to be able to do this the question is where are states in this game to keep them in check because of the narrative around how any and all Digital Development is a positive or a net positive asking critical questions is almost seen as being an enemy of progress and therefore the risk is your people in the community. So because of that nuanced and problematic notion being created very few politicians and by extension government actors want to step up to the plate to play this game proactively. Which come to think about as being with us ready to be extracted like oil can be extracted from the earth i certainly used to think of my daughter that way before i began doing research and interviews for this episode. But ive since come to realize that our lives locations family members our preferences our dislikes all of this isnt really done until you create algorithms that can convert every single human being into a collection of bits that money can be made off so this myth that somehow the oil or they call that the day to exhaust naturally within a switch is naturally there to be used by corporations it happens for their profit its an incredibly important myth to say theres nothing we can do about this this is the way things are but go back 203040 years this was not the way things were we need to hold on to that past to remembering to pass on the memory of that. In order to show that this remains the myth the digital corp the colonial project so were not just talking about the big players Facebook Google amazon in china baidu ali baba tencent cetera the social quantifications sector is a larger industry sector composed of the big players and swell alternative hardwired Manufacturers Software developers all of this platform interpret nur as well as Data Analytics firms and data brokers. So all together. Constitute the. Sector that provides the infrastructure for making this extraction possible structure of data from our human social lives we are the bodies producing the data but were not necessarily the ones who benefit from that so id stay here is peoples ideas peoples dreams peoples hopes peoples frustrations being used to sell things back to them where do we actually get our money back were not saying no tac in africa were not saying you know just jump over africa as youre thinking about and i internet the interest on a lot of really good things in africa its made a lot of connections possible that were not possible even 510 years ago the question is how do you mitigate the harm how do you make sure that you protect the good and you corral the bad model that we have now isnt doing that i think we should be bored enough and brave enough to go back to the drawing board and challenge ourselves to think differently about this model is there a better way of doing this thing is there a more humane way of doing this connectivity thing that were trying to do through all of these corporations. Technology is neither positive and negative or neutral it will always the intrinsic motivation that exists in a community where its being deployed one practical tip that ive found very useful is to keep myself informed and bring in as much critical forward and questioning of when we are told you know technology x. Is the solution and is the disrupt. You know to question how we were arrived at that conclusion supporting actors what make it that day to day lives to ask these things is one way to also keep making sure your views your concerns are represented and its you know not to give in to their fear we can still figure out how to heal the Society Technology could help with that but its dead teaching us that we need to go back to the basics of how we form societies how we find consensus and how we quite exist in this world children who are now 5 years or younger growing up with toys which are in fact robots algorithmically programmed which operate by tracking everything they do and playing back to them in forms that help the child grow everything they say we dont know what happens to that data but it will be probably impossible in about 10 years time to say to the child who is now by that stage but grown up adult you can live in a World Without being tracked algorithmically at every moment of your life its therefore very important we start in a sense speaking the truth to a very new type of power that is walking the place india i think its easy to forget you know a time even before all of our lives were ruled in a certain sense what all of these for the military and yet when i talk to young people are encouraged by the sense that they really dont think all of this but the ball and they are actually less deterministic that i am when i think about technology. And when i hear them. Talk about their changing perceptions towards facebook toward social media how theyre becoming critical of that and how theyre becoming more. Literate consumers in terms of reading the terms of service in terms of trying to make sense technically the mystic language i think that gives me hope. That people can become more active consumers and participants think that its really fortunate for us as were thinking about the issues that theyre pushing teas and the challenges the Technology Presents to remember about human beings this and human nature is very its very true and its very repetitive weve actually been here before with other forms of Communications Technology when you think about radio and the role that radio played for example in the 2nd world war when you think about the launch of television and you know the fears around advertising in the fields around how television would change society but these are all conversations that have actually happened in the past and so for me the big lesson is lets learn from what has already happened in the past lets not be afraid to look back theres nothing radically so radically different about Internet Technology that human beings havent really grappled with before. 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