Event

Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — Space Policy, Data Centres on the Moon, and New Colonialism

Date
12 Jun 2024
Time
15:00 UK time
Speakers
Yung Au
Where
Nuffield College, Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk to be able to attend., New Road OX1 1NF
Series
Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group
Audience
Members of the University only
Booking
Not required
This week, Yung Au will be speaking about Data centres on the moon and other stories: thinking about the coloniality of tech infrastructures.

About the speaker

Yung Au is Clarendon scholar, Rotary scholar, and a Doctoral researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Her thesis examines the vast surveillance industry and activism against the supply chain of surveillance technology. The broader themes of her work explores the uncertain geographies, the complicated power dynamics, and the (re)coloniality of technological infrastructures. Yung is also a PI of a project called “Stories in/around the Machine”, and an associate lecturer at UAL where she teaches about the future of surveillance, and computation & human rights.