Why tecnoafecciones?
In a world in which knowledge, technological reflection and technology itself have been conceived and constructed within rationalist, western, white, male frameworks, it is urgent that we reconnect with technology from our affections and affinities, our caregiving and the values that sustain us, to create other possible futures; futures that are dignified and techno-diverse.
Technoaffections is a project that reconsiders technology from a feminist, decolonial, situated perspective, one which supports thought and action about our relationship to technology through a theory and content that present the visions of affected communities, along with methodological proposals for workshops and an online campaign aimed at the broader public.
The project is intended to give people an opportunity to rethink our affective relationship with technology: our ways of doing, the ties that enable or disable, the proximate and distant impacts. We want to activate our capacity for collective creation, our possibilities for political articulation, revive our collective ways of doing together, through reconnection and affection; act on our desire for recognition as a community and as a possibility, our commitment to assuming responsibility as collective action. We want to explicitly state our intent to generate desired impacts and our potential to transform worlds. Our aspiration to build a dignified and just future for all.
Jes Ciacci
Jes Ciacci is co-founder and current General Coordinator of Sursiendo, a southern Mexican organization that works for a free internet from the defense of digital communality, collective digital rights and hackfeminisms. In addition, they are Membership Coordinator of May First Movement Technology. Having participated in various national and international spaces for the promotion of a critical digital technology. Accompanies digital care with free software for social organizations and land defenders. Practice curiosity as a method of learning and research with situated and community approaches. Dedicated to inhabit/think/make feminist technologies and linked to environmental justice. Interested in the intersections of knowledge attempting to weave from the proposals of the Narrative Practices. Stubbornly believes in the hacker ethic, the collective work and the spaces of exchange between peers.
Paola Ricaurte
Paola Ricaurte is an associate professor in the Department of Media and Digital Culture at Tecnológico de Monterrey and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Alongside Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejías, she co-founded Tierra Común, a network of academics, practitioners and activists interested in decolonizing data. She participates in several expert committees, such as the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), the Global Index on Responsible AI, the Expert Group for the Implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, the AI Ethics Experts Without Borders network, the Women for Ethical AI (W4EAI) platform. She is a member of the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms and leads the Latin American and Caribbean hub of the Feminist AI Research Network, f<A+i>r, where she regionally coordinates the Incubating Feminist AI project. In addition to her academic work, she participates in civil society initiatives to promote digital rights, the development of public interest technologies, and the dissemination of the ecosocial impacts of technological development.
Sursiendo
Sursiendo is an independent, non-profit, Latin American organization based in Chiapas, Mexico. Contributing to social change by defending digital communality, collective digital rights and hackfeminisms, through equitable and creative participation, where gender perspective is at the core, and grassroots education and free software are our stepping stones. Contributes to the transformation of digital technologies into spaces for autonomy supporting the creation of a world where development considers both the sociotechnical and natural environments.
Red Tierra Común
The Tierra Común Network is a collective that brings together academics, activists, artists, and technologists interested in the decolonization of data. Data colonialism questions the colonial dynamics underlying the extraction and use of data historically inherited and perpetuated in the context of the digital society. Tierra Común is dedicated to generating knowledge about this issue and fostering dialogues among different communities seeking to advance understanding of this phenomenon. Founded by Nick Couldry, Paola Ricaurte, and Ulises Ali Mejías in 2020,Tierra Común organizes gatherings, produces empirical knowledge, and promotes actions for collective resistance.
