Hello all,

Andrew Clement has put together a very promising set of events on the basis of the TechOtherwisehttps://techotherwise.pubpub.org/ 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 Expressionhttp://cfe.ryerson.ca/ (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”https://doi.org/10.21428/93b2c832.e0100a3f statement.

We have 3 events scheduled so far:

In Conversation with Cory Doctorow,https://craphound.com/ SF author and digital rights activist How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism: Seize the Means of Computationhttps://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/how-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-seize-means-computation (May 19, 4pm EDT)

In Conversation with Meredith Whittaker,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith_Whittaker ex-Googler and Co-founder/Director of the AI Now Institute at NYUhttps://ainowinstitute.org/ - "Take Control of Algorithms, Data, and Infrastructure”https://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/take-control-algorithms-data-and-infrastructure (June 2, 4pm EDT)

Panel on Defund Big Tech, Refund Communityhttps://cfe.ryerson.ca/events/defund-big-tech-refund-communities 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