Facing interconnected crises of racial capitalism, climate injustice and eroding solidarity, we want to re-imagine our current data infrastructures in an open forum for researchers and practitioners in the various fields of critical data studies. We want to consider the conditions of data workers and the environmental impacts of the factories needed to train AI models. We want to look at practices of solidarity with the resistance and refusal of those workers and the local communities affected. From this, we hope to find avenues that can help us address the interconnected crises from a critical perspective and find a better way forward. How can ongoing workers’ resistance connect with, and centre racialised migrant workers that prop up the data and tech economy? Who and how do we build with and across different interconnected struggles such as labour and the environment?
