LIVE TALKS
SESSION 01:
THE RISE OF GRASSROOTS RESISTANCE
14 SEPtember
5PM BST / 11am mexico city
This session will focus on the motivations and visions of different groups opposing the construction of data infrastructure.
SPEAKERS
PAOLA RICAURTE
Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City and a digital rights activist. Looks into data and Artificial Intelligence from feminist decolonial perspectives. Pamela ramírez
Socioenvironmental activist focused on immaterial and natural heritage. Pamela fought against the construction of a Google data centre in the Cerrillos neighbourhood in Santiago, Chile.JULIA RONE & JANNA HUANG
Julia is a postdoctoral researcher at the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge. Janna is a PhD researcher in Sociology at UC Berkeley. They have investigated local groups in the Netherlands and the United States, respectively.dylan murphy
Dylan is a climate activist of Not Here Not Anywhere (NHNA) campaigning in Ireland for a fossil free future. NHNA was one of the first groups to campaign on the rising concerns surrounding data centre growth in Ireland. MODERATOR
SEBASTIÁN LEHUEDÉ
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Governance and Human Rights at the University of Cambridge. His research looks at technology governance from a Latin American decolonial perspectiveSESSION 02:
EFFECTING CHANGE
21 SEPtember
5PM BST / 11am mexico city
This session will revolve around how to put into practice the aspirations of grassroots groups struggling against the community and environmental harms of data infrastructure.
SPEAKERS
MÉl Hogan
Director of the Environmental Media Lab (EML) and an Associate Professor in Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary, Canada. Hogan's research looks into the social implications and environmental impacts of server farms and data centres.Jan Meijles
Representative of Save the Wieringermeer, a group of citizens opposing the construction of two hyperscale datacenters of Microsoft in their polder.Patrick Brodie
Lecturer in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin in Ireland. His current research project analyses the environmental geopolitics of infrastructures across the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.Paz Peña
Co-founder of the Latin American Institute of Terraformation. Works as a digital rights consultant with an emphasis on feminism and environmental politics.MODERATOR
Hunter Vaughan
Senior Research Associate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge, and founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Environmental Media. His research focuses on the relationship between digital media, social justice, and the environment.