Hello all,

Andrew Clement has put together a very promising set of events on the basis of the TechOtherwise report (Defund Big Tech) that I shared earlier this year.

These are hosted at Ryerson CFE, no censure there :)

I think these are interesting to many of us and our students. Please spread the word.

Best,

Christoph

From: Andrew Clement <andrew.clement@utoronto.ca>
Sent: May 18, 2021 7:01 PM
Subject: Announcing event series on "Taming Big Tech", starting this Wednesday (tomorrow)

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce an event series I’ve organized with Ryerson U's Centre for Free Expression (CFE) called Taming Big Tech: Exploring the Alternatives. As the title suggests, it’s based on our "Defund Big Tech, Refund Community: Anti-Trust is Not Enough, Another Tech is Possible” statement.

We have 3 events scheduled so far: 

In Conversation with Cory Doctorow, SF author and digital rights activist  How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Seize the Means of Computation (May 19, 4pm EDT)

In Conversation with Meredith Whittaker, ex-Googler and Co-founder/Director of the AI Now Institute at NYU - "Take Control of Algorithms, Data, and Infrastructure” (June 2, 4pm EDT)

Panel on Defund Big Tech, Refund Community with Lilly Irani UC San Diego; Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar, MIT Media Lab; and Dawn Walker, UofT (June 10, 4pm EDT)

Could you pass this on to anyone you think may be interested.

Thanks,

Andrew