Versatile bamboo reduces climate risk in Nepal
https://globalvoices.org/2025/03/23/versatile-bamboo-reduces-climate-risk-in-nepal/
For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids
No, you don’t want the US to collapse. Too many countries depend on it, and a sudden breakdown would create chaos. If you come from the Global South, you might feel more empathy for those harmed by American foreign policy for several decades. But if the world’s most powerful military and economy slides into dictatorship - or worse - the consequences will hit everyone, especially weaker economies and vulnerable people.
The Global Reach of Colombia’s Private Security Firms
https://jacobin.com/2025/03/colombia-private-security-companies-global/
The biggest tariffs hit the poorest countries that require steep tariffs to the USA/Europe to keep those jobs in local factories.
If these countries agree to no tariffs the economy collapses and you'll see rioting around the most vulnerable areas of South East Asia.
The Conversation: Africa’s data workers are being exploited by foreign tech firms – 4 ways to protect them. “Since 2015, we have been studying the central role of African data workers in building and maintaining artificial intelligence (AI) systems, acting as ‘data janitors’. Our research found that companies rarely acknowledge the use of human workers in AI value chains, thus they […]
Dernier délai aujourd'hui pour profiter du tarif spécial « lève-tôt » pour assister à La Grande Transition 2025. 
L'événement se déroulera à Montréal - Tiohtià:ke du jeudi 29 mai au dimanche 1er juin.
Des dizaines de conférences disponibles sur le thème « Raviver les solidarités post-capitalistes »
https://lagrandetransition.net/inscription/
#lagrandetransition #lgt2025 #transition #capitalisme #capitalism #sudglobal #globalsouth #montreal #montréal inequalities #inegalites #biodiversity #luttescitoyennes
'Relational #WellBeing of Female #Workers in Low-Skilled Jobs in #Ethiopia' - an article in 'Zanj: The Journal of Critical #GlobalSouth #Studies' by Pluto Journals on #ScienceOpen: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/zanjglobsoutstud.8.1.0009
'Zanj: The Journal of Critical Global South Studies' is a bi-annual peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Pluto Journals that provides a uniquely engaged scholarly space for #GlobalSouth perspectives and #Research on the Global South: https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/760e59e3-88be-4821-b7ec-7fa0a9b14fde
From the only Pakistani mastodon server dedicate to climate change and the global south, (still alive and running btw)
Wishing everyone on the server and beyond in the fediverse,
EID MUBARAK!
Dont care you are celebrating or not, hope you have a wonderful day! =D
US VP JD Vance admits West wants Global South trapped at bottom of value chain
US VP JD Vance admits West wants Global South trapped at... #empire #globalsouthhttps://www.geopoliticaleconomy.report/p/jd-vance-west-global-south-global-value-chain
"Winter glow-up! Learn how to keep your skin radiant even in the coldest months."
I appreciate the #diversity of voices on Mastodon. Especially from the #GlobalSouth
Otherwise this AI-gen'd trashtext is really late and harshing my vernal mellow.
@mhoye remote events are also good for our planet.
Speaking of events #wikimania conference by #wikimedia movement is really great. During pandemic it was just online but they brought the local culture in by showing us e.g. how to buy and make food.
They have brought real time translators into the webinars to give us easier access to the knowledge of our global movement.
I think we appreciate the #globalsouth in our movement but maybe the people living there dissagree. Nevertheless this year the event is in #Kenya and I'm doing it remotely. Last year I travelled from Finland to Poland by bus&train so now I appreciate the time I save.
An #authoritarian solar system is orbiting around #Trump. Don't take #democracy for granted
Even though I be lieve that the confrontation between haves and have-nots, the #globalnorth and #globalsouth are actually the political fault line, I do agree with the statement that #liberal #democrats around the world have more in common with one another than they do with their fellow citizens from the opposite side. And that is because they are usually priviledged. #capitalism
This characteristic, coupled with the complete absence of the #GlobalSouth, makes #Mastodon, and the rest of the #Fediverse, a lonely hostile place for anti-colonial, anti-imperial, anti-capitalist thought.
https://union.place/@feralthoughts/114030586394502623
For similar reasons, the Fedi continues being a nasty place for any person of colour.
Africa: ICC's Double Standards - a Court for the Powerful or Against the Weak?: [Shabelle] The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established to prosecute individuals responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. However, since its inception, the court has faced mounting criticism for its alleged double standards, particularly its disproportionate focus on leaders from the Global… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJk3Mx #ICC #JusticeForAfrica #WarCrimes #DoubleStandards #GlobalSouth
A nuanced “Global South” take by @nwbrownboi re: LibGen, Copyright & AI + contrast from @greg_jenner & @prof_alice_roberts (all Threads) HT @dsearls
Quoted with links & refs to an Atlantic article; punch quote:
Where was this outrage when students & researchers in the Global South needed these books to study, work, and build a future? AI isn’t the first thing to challenge your control over knowledge. It’s just the first time you’ve noticed.
OK I am about to drop a really hot, nuanced take on Meta torrenting LibGen. I recognise this is a sensitive subject and to be clear – I dont approve of the torrenting. But there is a much broader point about LibGen that you – yes, you, a Western reader are not seeing. I ask you to read the rest of this in good faith. (1/6)
LibGen wasnt built for piracy – it was built for access. Created in 2008 (17 years ago, long before AI) by Russian scientists, it served students & researchers in India, Africa, Iran – places where Western paywalls kept knowledge locked away. You shouldnt need a shadow library to learn. But in these places – you did. And now, the same archive is fueling AI models that Westerners suddenly find very concerning. (2/6)
LibGen was never about theft it was about survival. It gave access to knowledge that academia locked away. But now that AI companies scraped it? Now its a crisis? Where was this outrage when students & researchers in the Global South needed these books to study, work, and build a future? AI isnt the first thing to challenge your control over knowledge. Its just the first time youve noticed. (3/6)
For decades, Western publishers profited off knowledge hoarding. Now AI is absorbing books, and suddenly the institutions that never cared about access are crying theft. The gatekeepers are losing power, but that doesnt mean the people are winning. You ignored the fight over open knowledge – until AI came for your books. (4/6)
LibGen shattered paywalls. AI could be the next great knowledge revolutionor the final enclosure. That choice isnt up to publishers anymore. But it could be up to you. Will you demand open-source AI, knowledge for all? Or will you only fight for access after its been locked away from you, too? (5/6)
The problem isnt AI – its who controls it. AI could be an open-source library, crediting & compensating authors, making knowledge truly accessible instead of locked in corporate models. (Some models are working on citations.) But that requires breaking the cycle of extraction. Thats not a fantasy – its just a choice we havent made yet. AI could be another gatekeeper, or it could be a bridge to something better. I know which one I want. (6/6)
…and Greg Jenner:
So, all three of my books for adults (plus translations) have been illegally pirated on LibGen, and then stolen again by Meta to train their AICopyright law is being utterly trampled on, over and over. I hate it. And the charming irony that I can only spread the word about it on Meta! The article is in The Atlantic
…and Prof Roberts:
Blimey. Looks like pretty much ALL of my books have been pirated by LibGen – the place that’s been scraped by generative AI developers. Real, human authors – and copyright law! – being flung into the jaws of this technological behemoth. Article in the Atlantic (thanks …)
I am delighted to see the pros-and-cons debates of copyright and of people making money from content rather than because of content (HT Doc Searls) – all being played-out again this decade as they were in the early days of blogging.
To me, this discourse is a sign of both harsh reality and gradual raising of awareness.
ps: I still think the gold standard here is the late Professor Ross Anderson who arranged with his publisher to permit him to make his books available for free download on his home page, a few years after publication of each edition.
pps: I wish I had a Threads unroller.
I don't think we've ever seen a list like this in our lifetime.
#GlobalSouth is rising, while the West is in deep shit.
Especially the #EU is finished and the political clowns we currently have are simply unable to deal with it.
If you want to know why researchers from the #globalsouth are under-represented in scientific conferences, try going through the visa application process as one of them.
Africa: The Toll of Mental Health in Conflict Areas: [IPS] United Nations -- Over the past two decades, conversations surrounding mental wellness have entered the cultural consciousness in the western world. Despite this, these topics receive far less media exposure in the Global South, particularly in areas that have been entrenched in warfare, where the onset of harmful mental health conditions are prevalent. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJjSLw #MentalHealth #ConflictAreas #Africa #Wellness #GlobalSouth
#woke 
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