MozFest is a unique hybrid: part art, tech and society convening, part maker festival, and the premiere gathering for activists in diverse global movements fighting for a better internet – and you’re invited! On Thursday 23rd March at 5:30pm [GMT] / 6:30pm [CET Central European Time] / 8:30pm [EAT East African Time] we will be joing the Festival with online Talkaoke session.

To take part in our session and access the full MozFest programme you need to register for your FREE ticket: mozillafestival.org/tickets

Talkaoke is a fun freeform talk show, with no set agenda, where the online participants decide on the direction of the conversation enhanced by visualisations and sound effects. Taking the question of “How to Decolonise Net Culture?” as the departure point, we will navigate the conversation together to imaginatively explore what decolonisation of the internet could look like, including how to create fairer revenue streams for artists and the creatives around the world, especially from the global south.

Our recent project with artists from the UK and Uganda highlighted the structural inequalities of opportunity and income between creative producers in the west and the rest of the world. The internet was supposed to be a powerful tool to address this inequality. However, virtually all social and mass media platforms are US, European or Chinese and there is an inequality of online access – leading to a huge asymmetry of cultural understanding. Resources wise, it’s a quasi colonial system. What can be done to address this? We badly need new ideas and strategies and we can begin by simply listening more to those in the Global South.  

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