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The US has signed Agreements on Reciprocal Trade with 10 countries, most of which are developing nations already facing significant digital divides.
They also set out what trade agreements should protect instead: technology transfer, decentralized networks that use more domestic hardware, and stronger global development financing.
Read the full piece, “Trump’s ‘Agreements on Reciprocal Trade’ Threaten Equitable Access to the Internet in Developing Countries,” on Bot Populi: botpopuli.net/trumps-agreeme…
#DigitalTrade #DigitalDivide #InternetAccess #TechnologyTransfer #DigitalSovereignty #GlobalDevelopment
September saw the Global South assert itself as a strong voice for multilateralism, with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, BRICS, and the UN General Assembly summits all drawing significant attention in quick succession.
➡️ Rishabh Bailey and Prapasiri Suttisome on how Trump's "reciprocal trade" carry clauses could block developing countries from choosing their own internet infrastructure.
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Adoption of opaque governance AI-agents by peripheral governments enables new forms of on-shoring governance by central govts. They can be a key vector for the emergence of new empires.
An essay I published @PopuliBot in Feb cautioning about this trend-> botpopuli.net/digital-govern…
Interface power -> Governments are entering the grayzone...and aren't disclosing how the LLM processing is developed or by whom.
More on the figure in a recent paper co-authored with Manuel Castells-> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
and the resources.
Abhineet Nayyar argues that a South-centric repositioning could offer a better alternative: treating data as a shared resource rather than a private one, backed by public compute infrastructure and real cooperation between Global South economies.
Read the full piece on Bot Populi: botpopuli.net/the-road-not-t…
#AIGovernance #DigitalTrade #GlobalSouth #DataRights #TechPolicy
The AI race is reshaping global power, trade, and technology.
But what does this race mean for the Global South?
Embedding existing power asymmetry further, the Global North controls the data, the chips, and the rules, while the South is mostly left to supply the labor
The shutting down of Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) signals the end of an era. AMT pioneered home-based data annotation & other micro-tasks, providing the labor force that ultimately made AI systems possible. Yet, it is these systems that are now rendering such work obsolete.
➡️ Abhineet Nayyar considers what the growing fragmentation of the global AI landscape means for the Global South — and how this moment could create openings to pursue more autonomous pathways.
botpopuli.net/the-road-not-t…
Read the full issue here: datasyn.substack.com/p/the-r…