This research cluster explores the origins and meaning of current calls to decolonize digital ecosystems and examines their implications for research, design, regulation, and advocacy.
Our societies are in the process of grappling with the harmful impact of a wide range of data-driven technologies, from predictive algorithms and facial recognition technology to NLP models and automated content moderation. Driving this reckoning, a growing community of scholars and civil society voices call for challenging what they see as digital colonialism. This research cluster explores the origins and meaning of these calls to decolonize digital ecosystems and examines their implications for research, design, regulation, and advocacy.