Originally published in his Substack, Asian Labor Futures, this piece by 2024 Just Tech Fellow Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn examines the labor conditions of data workers in Asian countries whose work props up AI and tech companies from the shadows. He concludes by outlining potential paths for greater worker inclusion in policymaking.

Black archiving techniques have taken and continue to take many forms, allowing Black organizations and movements to preserve their history and communicate their activities to their communities without relying on mainstream institutions. Here, 2024 Data Fluencies Grantee Jewell Ruth-Ella Humphrey examines how Solo Nos, an Afro–Costa Rican organization,  uses digital tools to archive its work.

Meet Miliaku Nwabueze, one of our 2024–2026 Just Tech Fellows. She is an antidisciplinarian constellation architect, chaos orchestrator, and glitch enthusiast who splits her time between New York and Atlanta. She is a queer, Igbo-Black American originally born and raised in Detroit who writes, designs, and wonders toward the endings of this world.

Here, Chelsea Barabas and Clarence Okoh (a 2022 Just Tech Fellow) reflect on the work of the No Data about Us without Us Fellowship (NDAUWU), a program of the NOTICE Coalition: No Tech Criminalization in Education and the Edgelands Institute. This fellowship brought together grassroots organizers and community leaders to examine how tech surveillance impacts school discipline.