THE GATEKEEPERS, PART IV: Institutional Capture In Action The AFRINIC case reveals a playbook being deployed across Africa’s digital future

Gatekeepers Part IV names the playbook from AFRINIC to AI to digital public infrastructure to the “America First Global Health Strategy.” open.substack.com/pub/alicemun...

Those of us who spent years in these rooms know how institutional capture works. We also know our role in making it work.

Would any of this be proposed for European institutions?
The question answers itself.

Who trades citizens’ health data for foreign funding and calls it sovereignty?

Who drafts the digital ID frameworks our governments adopt?
Who gets invited to the conference and summit industrial complex and who gets shunned?

🧵Who writes Africa’s AI strategies?
Who funds them?
Who builds the foundational models our “local innovation” runs on?

Child Marriage: A Global Crisis From Somalia to California Before we judge Somalia, let us talk about Idaho, Tennessee, and your state

A 65-year-old married a 17 year old in Idaho.
Three 10-year-olds married adult men in Tennessee. California has NO minimum age.
Before we judge Somalia, let us talk about YOUR state.
My investigation: open.substack.com/pub/alicemun...
#EndChildMarriage

Alice Munyua on Championing Africa’s Voice in Global Tech and AI Ethics The African Innovators Series(TAIS): Tech, Data, and AI Changing the Game

why African women are done waiting for permission and what tech looks like when we center care, consent, and trust as infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/reamby/p...

Present but Silent: Rethinking the Role of African Governments in Internet Governance The crisis at AFRINIC has sparked renewed debate about internet governance in Africa and rightly so.

Where were African governments when AFRINIC began to unravel? : open.substack.com/pub/alicemun...
#AFRINIC #InternetGovernance #AfricaDigitalFuture #Multistakeholder #PublicInterest #ICANN

I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books

Converting my 401K into cartons of cigarettes for barter before the market opens tomorrow.

Amen
Do better teaching your sons how to be good people, good men, good citizens.
Take the game systems away
Encourage them to socialize
Clamp down hard on bullying and misogyny
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/rich...

Tesla stock taking a nose dive from $262.67 at previous close to $222.15 at the end of today.

Lets take a break and look at this beautiful piece of art though.

VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional In a landmark ruling, a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant. Congress sho...

A federal court has declared that warrantless searches of US person’s communications collected for national security purposes is unconstitutional. Now it’s our job to make sure Congress knows that when they renew this law in a little over a year.

Gisele Pelicot is an incredible woman and a hero for her nerve in bringing all those rapists to justice and for knowing the shame does not lie worth her — bravely declining anonymity was incredible.

Definitely.

A paragraph from Ta-Nehisi Coates' book The Message, which reads: "It may seem strange that people who have already attained a position of power through violence invest so much time in justifying their plunder with words. But even plunderers are human beings whose violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that gnaws at them when they meet the eyes of their victims. And so a story must be told, one that raises a wall between themselves and those they seek to throttle and rob."

Ta-Nehisi Coates wields words like sledgehammers.