Berkman klein center for internet & society

dominance through legal rules), and the ways in which this manifests itself in developing countries in Africa. The Berkman Klein Center launched Assembly: Disinformation in the fall of 2019 and will continue and expand this work in the 2020-2021 academic year. This panel examines questions of unequal power in the global digital economy (through U.S corporations, China, and Brussels (i.e. The fellowship is a collaboration between the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard. For so-called РІР‚СљperipheryРІР‚Сњ countries such as those in sub-Saharan Africa, the information economy represents an opportunity to chase the long-elusive quest for industrialization, now dubbed РІР‚Сљdigital industrializationРІР‚Сњ, РІР‚Сљdigital developmentРІР‚Сњ or РІР‚Сљdata for development.РІР‚Сњ Despite the optimism represented in the digital development policy discourse, the limits and potentials of any kind of development are heavily constrained by background conditions rooted in past global power imbalances and a colonial legacy of non-contextual laws and institutions. The Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation brings individuals to Harvard University to work on a specific course of research or a specific project relating to journalism innovation. The global information economy has provided freedom-enhancing affordances for previously marginalized groups, but has also enabled extractive practices in the form of digital imperialism, or as others term it, data colonialism.

Berkman klein center for internet & society