Mar 4, 2024
Researchers Dr. Corinne Cath & Dr. Fieke Jansen share their insights into critical approaches to internet infrastructure, the environmental costs of data centres, and how to reimagine our relationship with digital technologies to ensure a more equitable and sustainable future.
Dr. Corinne
Cath is a postdoc at the University of Delft,
working with Dr. Seda Gürses and Prof Linnet Taylor.
She is also a research affiliate at the Minderoo Centre at the
University of Cambridge. Corinne is a cultural anthropologist who
studies the politics of Internet infrastructure and cloud
computing. Previously, Corinne was Vice President of Research at
the Open Tech Fund, a US-based grantmaker focused on developing
open-source technologies. She finished her PhD in 2021 at
the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of
Oxford). Her current research focuses on how cloud computing
is eating the internet and the adequacy of existing EU technology
policy efforts that touch on cloud computing.
Dr. Fieke Jansen is
a postdoc researcher at the University of Amsterdam and a
co-principle investigator of the critical infrastructure lab. She
did her PhD at the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University, where
she looked at the institutional and societal implications of
data-driven risk scoring and biometric recognition in Brussels,
Belgium, the Netherlands, and the UK. Fieke is a former Mozilla and
Green Web Foundation fellow where she explored ways to frame the
climate crisis as a core digital rights issue. Prior to starting
her phd Fieke worked on human rights and technology at Hivos and
Tactical Tech. Fieke's research interest is to understand how the
material impact of expending infrastructures are shaping the
management, distribution, and depletion of natural
resources.
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