Emilie Ouwerx
MSc Student
Emilie Ouwerx
MSc Student
Emilie is a Shirley Scholar pursuing an MSc in Social Science of the Internet. She holds a BASc in Arts and Sciences from UCL. Her research interests centre on the politics of technology in the Global South, including the impacts of Western technological ideologies on development and how Global South societies are designing technologies that prioritise local contexts. This year, Emilie has been working with ThreeFold, a decentralised cloud company, to expand their peer-to-peer grid of storage, compute and network capacity in Tanzania. This initiative aims to empower the local tech and developer community to build and host their own digital solutions, reducing reliance on centralised cloud providers and data centres located in Europe or North America.
Technology Policy, Geopolitics of Technology, ICT4D, AI Governance, Data Colonialism, Digital Economy.