Colonialism in tech and design

Ibrahim Maryam, 4, was skipping around her home in Dutse Mpape in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, her tiny feet barely touching the dusty floor in the compound, when the earth beneath her began to shudder.

Companies are complacently falling back on DEI programmes that have minimal impact on reducing bias in the workplace. For real change, we must give marginal voices equal weight.

"Many clothing donations end up in an unexpected place — African landfills."Good article and further detail about a phenomenon I often bring up in my talks.https://t.co/4dM5Jj7u3a— Per Axbom (@axbom) January 30, 2022

Seminal work by Black scholar, which was shunned for decades, finds British publisher

Sorry, there was too much paraphrasing in my attempt to reduce the actual, brilliant statement by @CarissaVeliz to 280 characters, thereby distorting its meaning. Here is a screenshot of what she writes in full detail (but best to read the entire article!): #algorithms #AIethics https://t.co/0tC9lD9Fsp pic.twitter.com/5wxO2K6NOL— Dorothea Baur (Dr.) (@DorotheaBaur) December 28, 2021

1/ One of most important things I've learned:Severe personality problems find *camouflage.* No one thinks "I'm a sadist" or "I'm a malignant narcissist."They find a belief system/social group that validates their most hateful, destructive impulses & construes them as virtues.— Jonathan Shedler (@JonathanShedler) September 24, 2021

The Best of "Hannah Arendt in bricks". pic.twitter.com/PBGC0sT90o— Ethics in Bricks (@EthicsInBricks) March 23, 2020

Inequality is a choice.Discuss. pic.twitter.com/4f3I5J4NlX— Ethics in Bricks (@EthicsInBricks) November 28, 2021

"Those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil."- Hannah Arendt pic.twitter.com/4XTNmSpa3R— Ethics in Bricks (@EthicsInBricks) November 30, 2021

The Golden Ratio, a hallmark of Swiss design and the foundation of everything from Helvetica to Le Corbusier’s meticulous architecture, may have been imported from Africa.

Prof. Ashoke Chatterjee, at the Frame Conclave 2019 in Goa, discussed how design education has evolved over the years with respect to nation-building.

Side note: watching the live stream and the auto captions are turning the Mashpee people into 'mashed peas.' auto captions that reproduce settler colonial speech norms are an issue of #algorithmicjustice https://t.co/UsGCQdZc8d— Sasha Costanza-Chock (@schock) November 25, 2021

Dr. Lesley-Ann Noel PhD, is the Associate Director for Design Thinking for Social Impact, and Professor of Practice at the Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane University, where she teaches design thinking from an emancipatory perspective. Design Thinking is a powerful

“Decolonization” is a word we’re increasingly hearing at design events, often being used interchangeably with “diversity.” It’s important to emphasize that while the terms are linked, they shouldn’t be confused. Diversity is about bringing more people to the table. Decolonization is about changing t

Graphic design in Africa. From the first alphabets to contemporary issues.