The right to be forgotten (also known as the “right to erasure,” is the right to have search information removed from the internet and other directories. Since 2014, European Union citizens have had the ability to request links to webpages that contain delicate personal information about themselves to be deleted. It is thought that it…
Technological redlining is the creation of injustices between marginalized groups of people through digital technologies such as the internet. In the past, this included denying loans and mortgages within specific areas. Redlining comes from the red lines that were drawn on maps to designate targeted areas in lower income neighborhoods. This practice has been going…
Basic online connectivity is an issue in many parts of the Indigenous world. It’s important for these tribes to connect with each other in order to “share information among themselves and with other Native peoples in order to strengthen knowledge of the homeland, histories, Native languages, spiritualities and ceremonial cycles, and ancestral lineage” (Duarte 115)…
Building a broadband network on tribal reservations, out in the middle of nowhere, is nothing short of an amazing feat. First you need money. Most tribal communities get their funding through either one of or a combination of the following: university funding (such as the University of California, San Diego program), private grants (like Hewlett-Packard),…
It would be ridiculous to think of indigenous people as being pre-modern and anti-technological because it’s not true. For example, looking back at the indigenous throughout the ages we can see that they could develop methods of “binary mathematics, categorization, classification, cartography, technique, and literacy. There were the codices of Tenochtitlan, pictographic and woven systems…