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What digital innovation looks like, when you’re not conquering anything...
Iginio Gagliardone on bricolage, recombination and whether you leave an encounter with AI tools richer or poorer.
Aug 31
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Iginio Gagliardone
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July 2026
A computer scientist and a linguist (both Southern African) walk into a hackathon in Helsinki...
Two FITH fellows spent six and a half days in May building a research project from nothing at the University of Helsinki’s Digital Humanities Hackathon…
Jul 31
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Andile Masuku
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June 2026
Asian universities came to Wits with something conspicuously missing... fear
Over two days in June, a visiting Asian delegation arrived with fellowships, exchanges and joint research on offer, and none of the AI dread now…
Jun 26
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Andile Masuku
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Maya Loon
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April 2026
If AI can sing in your language, do you still own your voice?
African music is already missing from global AI training data. Are protection and preservation even the same problem?
Apr 24
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Gloria Badibake
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X marks the spot: your platform is someone else's country
Open-sourcing a candid disagreement about Mastodon and X. What are the tradeoffs of building an African intellectual project on platforms that might…
Apr 14
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Andile Masuku
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When the algorithm strikes first
Human futures hang in the balance as asymmetric warfare rewrites the rules of global conflict.
Apr 14
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Rejoice Malisa - van der Walt
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