In this interview, Just Tech Editor Rodrigo Ugarte and Program Assistant An Doan speak with Lilian OIivia Orero, a Kenyan attorney and activist whose work focuses on the intersection of gender, technology, and law, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, about her advocacy work ensuring women’s online safety, gender bias in AI policy, and SafeOnline Women Kenya (SOW-Kenya), the organization she founded.

Join Just Tech and the Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP) on April 10 at 3:30 p.m. ET for a panel discussion on “Listening for Bias: The Politics and Potential of Speech AI.” Just Tech Fellows Johann Diedrick, Dorothy Santos, Jay Cunningham, and NYU professor Edward Kang will address the politics and potentials of speech AI, asking who gets to design AI speech technologies and how these are developed to respond to communities’ needs. The panel will be moderated by NYU professor Mara Mills.

In this essay, 2023 Data Fluencies Grantee Sanjana Krishnan examines how the municipal governments of various Indian cities have been using satellite imagery to clear informal housing settlements. In particular, she looks at the case of Mumbai and how this technology undermines the rights of those living in these settlements.

In her recent book Mobile City: Emerging Media, Space, and Sociality in Contemporary Berlin, Jordan Kraemer examines how young adults in Berlin in the first decades of this century used social media and the internet to express German identity in a cosmopolitan context that was acceptable though overtime these spaces became polarized. In this excerpt, Kraemer looks at the tactics young Germans used to get online.