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This collection of essays, written by authors from diverse countries across four continents, explores the similarities and differences in technological expansionism. It examines how technology companies establish themselves in new markets and sectors, and charts how technology projects increasingly capture public functions and infrastructures, raising critical concerns for democratic legitimacy and accountability.
Starting from the changes in technology politics and governance brought by the pandemic, the book charts technology firms' entry into critical public sectors such as healthcare, welfare, and education. The chapters demonstrate how market capture and other forms of expansion—often framed as emergency measures—are facilitated by diminished ethical, legal, and sector-specific oversight, as well as weakened transparency and public contestability. These "sector transgressions" have enabled technology companies to consolidate power through accelerated privatization, reduced public sector control over digital infrastructure, and increased dependency on private actors for policy-making and regulation.
Through a series of case studies, the essays examine how this phenomenon emerges in different parts of the world, analyzing its implications for data governance, public interest, and human rights. The book offers strategies for civil society and policy makers to address these challenges and ultimately argues for rethinking digital governance structures to safeguard the public interest.
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1. What is a 'sector transgression', and why should we care?
Linnet Taylor, Aaron Martin, Siddharth Peter de Souza, Joan Lopez-Solano, Ouejdane Sabbah, and Franklyn Ohai.
2. Transgression through a Sector — On COVID-19, power and technology
Vidushi Marda
3. The Crutch of Big Tech: Thinking critically about tech companies' sphere transitions in Malaysia and their implications for national policy
Anisha Nadkarni
4. A technology response to a public health emergency
Grace Mutung'u
5. COVID-19, Health Tech and Sphere Transgression in Ethiopia
Kinfe Yilma
6. Technology-led border management in Greece: When the EU funds private vendors, Centaurs and Titans turn from myth to reality
Eleftherios Chelioudakis
7. Brazil and the case of Incognia
Bruno Bioni , Gabriela Vergili , Mariana Rielli , Pedro Saliba
8. The app in the middle: Displacement of the Colombian public health surveillance system by COVID apps
Joan López-Solano , Juliana Valdés , Juan Diego Castañeda
9. A Digital Push in Agriculture: Multiple locations, shared patterns and the dynamics of displacement
Franklyn Ohai and Siddharth Peter de Souza
10. One Gate Leads to Many Doors, a Case Study of MyGate in India
Anushka Mittal
11. Super-apps and the Encroachment of Tech Companies in Indonesia
Paska Darmawan
12. Big Tech and Big Money: Examining Big Tech's entry into India's payment sector
Aman Nair
13. A system error has occurred: Reclaiming the public governance of technology
Linnet Taylor
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