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About Polyfoni
About Polyfoni
Polyfoni is an independent non-profit research communication platform based in Oslo that aims to amplify human-centred and decolonized voices from social scientists based in, or working on, the Global South, in a world increasingly shaped by AI and algorithmic infrastructures.
Through editorial work, mentorship, events, and research-communication partnerships, we support knowledge dissemination, build communities, facilitate dialogue, and stimulate public debate. Through this work, we seek to centre the Global South in global consciousness and knowledge production while foregrounding human voices in a future dominated by logics of optimization.
Most AI debates are too technical, too Western, and too detached from the social contexts in which technology is actually built, governed, adopted, resisted, and lived with.
AI Governance Fieldnotes offers field intelligence on AI, society, China, and the Global South — written by social scientists who know how to read both technology and lived context.
What does Global South knowledge offer AI companies, what makes it hard to integrate, and what would it take to do it well?
We are three social scientists with research interests in the Global South working across social science disciplines such as anthropology, global entrepreneurship, global public health, feminist studies, and science fiction studies. Through Polyfoni, we aspire to bring together researchers like us and to highlight the perspectives we have gained from experiences from the Global South. We are particularly interested in the issue of how AI and technology impacts the future of social science research in the Global South.
We particularly welcome scholars from historically marginalized groups to join us!
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