Onderwijs en big tech

Onderwijs en Cloud services

Talks, panels, workshops, actions and exhibitions

• Infrastructural resistance in the archive, a conversation with Miriyam Aouragh, Karl Moubarak and Omar Jabary Salamanca, Brussels (October 2024)
• Complicit chips, informal research sharing, Brussels (October 2024)
• Counter Cloud Imaginaries, contribution to panel: Collective infrastructures, EASST4s, Amsterdam (July 2024)
• Bugreporting on anticipatory Infra-solutionism: collective practices of struggle and resistance, Helen V Pritchard, panel: Futures Work, EASST4s, Amsterdam (July 2024)
• Anti-colonial tech: a conversation, Varia, Rotterdam (February 2024)
• Anti-Colonial Tech through Resistance and Discomforts, Transmediale Berlin (has not taken place, February 2024)
• Transnational Anti-Colonial Trans*Feminist Counter Cloud Action Day, multiple cities and locations (March 8 2024)
• No plan comes accidentally together, workshop contribution to Critical FAIRness: Data Management Planning, Basel (March 2024)
• Infrastructures of Oppression: Technology and Logistics in Times of Crisis, with TNI and LaborTech, online (December 2023)
• From lost to the river ≠ de perdidos al río, with maiz, on-line (December 2023)
• FAQ: Questions fréquemment posées sur l'action trans*féministe contre le Cloud, APREM#10, La Fabrique de Theatre, Mons (November 2023)
• The Institute for Technology in the Interest of Worms, workshop contribution with Martino Morandi, Loose Energy Curriculum: Grow your own solar cell, AIA, Zürich (September 2023)
• Pocketpower!, contribution to The Hmm’s Data Centre Tour, with Nazanin Karimi and Cristina Cochior (Varia), The Hmm, Amsterdam (September 2023)
• Misplacing matter? Vertical practices and (hi)stories of space and power, workshop contribution, University of Augsburg (Augustus 2023)
• Operations Room, Hangar, Barcelona (July 2023)
• The Suspicion Machine, panel contribution, De Dependance, Rotterdam (April 2023)
• Unlearning Platform Realism, Leiden University (March 2023)
• Infrables, contribution to Tangible Clouds, Brussels (March 2023)
• Desconfiad de la pieded química, talk in LaaS Fellowship public programme (with Marta Echaves), La Virreina, Barcelona (March 2023) [in Spanish]
• Counter Cloud Strategies, panel moderation, transmediale, Berlin (February 2023)
• Infras Antifas #1 - Agua (with Higo Mental, Plecs, online), 2023 [in Spanish]
• Undergroundings: Infrastructures for Removal, keynote (as The Underground Division), Groundings, Linnaeus University, Växjö (December 2022)
• Counter Cloud Action workshop, NEoN, Dundee (November 2022)
• Digital Capitalism, panel contribution Miriyam Aouragh and Seda Gürses, State of the World 2022 Global Conference, TNI, Amsterdam (October 2022)
• Doing research otherwise, Deradicalizing the city, Leuven (2022)
• Bugreporting at the end of the world, AMRO, Linz, Austria (2022)
• Escola d'Elefants dins de l'Habitació (La Capella, Barcelona). Ongoing seminar (2022-2024), notes on a pad [in Spanish]
• Solidary Infrastructure, keynote at Solidarity Retreat, Soeterbeek, The Netherlands (2022)
• Small c vs. big C: How Computational Infrastructures Capture Technical and Social Imaginary for Public Life, Thinking through the Crises series of the Amsterdam Research Center for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS), SPUI25 (March 2022)
• Infrables, workshop at Tangible Clouds Workshop, Brussels (June 2022)
• Infrables, on-line workshop in the series Digital Solidarities Networks organized by Varia (June 2021)
• Hiding trees among the forest, workshop in the series Reclaiming Digital Infrastructures, KASK Gent (April 2022)

Published papers, interviews and podcasts: https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php?title=Publications

Opinies, artikelen en referenties in het Nederlands naar aanleiding van de groeiende zorg over de dominantie van Big Tech cloud services in het (hoger) onderwijs:

• Pim van der Beek, ‘AP: cloudbeleid kabinet niet privacyproof’, Computable, 14 November 2022, https://www.computable.nl/artikel/nieuws/cloud-computing/7433698/250449/ap-coudbeleid-kabinet-niet-privacy-proof.html.
• Jan Fred van Wijnen en Ardi Vleugels, ‘Studentgegevens Ondanks Kritiek Massaal in de Amerikaanse Cloud Gezet’, Financieel Dagblad, 16 oktober 2022, https://fd.nl/samenleving/1454238/studentgegevens-ondanks-kritiek-massaal-in-de-amerikaanse-cloud-gezet
• Elisabeth IJmker en Itay Garmy, ‘Opinie: “Amsterdam Moet Juist Nu Kiezen Voor Verantwoorde Technologie Gebaseerd Op Publieke Waarden”’, Het Parool, 3 oktober 2022, https://www.parool.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-amsterdam-moet-juist-nu-kiezen-voor-verantwoorde-technologie-gebaseerd-op-publieke-waarden~bdcb0a06/
• José van Dijck, ‘Ook in de Cloud Voelen We de Dominantie van Big Tech’, Financieel Dagblad, 23 september 2022, https://fd.nl/opinie/1451843/ook-in-de-cloud-voelen-we-de-dominantie-van-big-tech
• Jasper Bakker, ‘Hoogleraren Maken Gehakt van Nieuwe Cloudkoers Kabinet’, AG Connect, 22 september 2022, https://www.agconnect.nl/artikel/hoogleraren-maken-gehakt-van-nieuwe-cloudkoers-kabinet
• José van Dijck en Bart Jacobs, ‘Opinie: Onze overheid moet haar kostbare data niet klakkeloos uitleveren aan Google en Amazon’, de Volkskrant, 21 september 2022, https://www.volkskrant.nl/gs-b57cb834

Meer over onderwijs in de cloud

• Bas Belleman and Tomas van Dijk, ‘“Universiteiten Moeten Ict En Data Weer in Eigen Hand Nemen”’, Delta, 21 January 2022, https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/universiteiten-moeten-ict-en-data-weer-eigen-hand-nemen
• Tobias Fiebig et al., ‘Heads in the Clouds: Measuring the Implications of Universities Migrating to Public Clouds’ (arXiv, 27 July 2021), https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2104.09462 (academisch artikel, EN)
• Seda Gürses: Rectangles-R-Us - What Happened When the University Went Online? - Part 1-4, Artez Webinar: Crisis Education Critical Education, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDp0FMQdH3ylEG_RhnsjKfC784OF74dYr (EN)
• ‘Beste student, docent, medewerker aan een onderwijsinstelling, ...’, Constant, September 2020, https://constantvzw.org/wefts/distant-elephant.nl.html (open brief)
• Jos Wissink, ‘Het hoeft niet per se Zoom te zijn’, Delta, 11 November 2020, https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/het-hoeft-niet-se-zoom-te-zijn