EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS 14/09/2022 Contested Data Territories: Resisting Data Infrastructure from Below Credit: CGHR How are communities organising to resist the environmental impact of data-intensive technologies? Online Sept 14-21 Join researchers from the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at a series of live talks on Contested Data Territories: Resisting Data Infrastructure from Below, hosted by the Centre of Governance & Human Rights, University of Cambridge. The environment and local communities, particularly those in the Global South, face potentially damaging consequences as a result of data infrastructure expansions. Activists and researchers from across the world will be joining to discuss the consequences we face, as well as emerging forms of grassroots opposition against these expansions and how they organise on local levels. This initiative, hosted as a bilingual series of talks incorporating live interpretations in English and Spanish, will raise questions around how collective action can democratise decisions regarding the planning, construction, and deployment of technological infrastructure. Two events, on the 14th and 21st September 2022, will be held at 5pm BST or 11am Mexico City. The first session, moderated by our Postdoctoral researcher Sebastián Lehuedé, will focus on the motivations and visions of different groups opposing data infrastructure construction, while the second session, moderated by the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy Senior Research Associate Hunter Vaughan, will consider how activist networks put these oppositions into practice.