While many of us have links and footnotes for resources in our outputs, the collective bibliography is back by popular demand!. Each of us chose our 3 favorite, most impactful, most interesting to others resources to share with those interested in our topics and our deep dives during the 2025 Deep Dive Week.
Topic/Theme
Exploring the development of Open source tools at the Intersection of AI Adoption and new ways to publish to the web
Resources:
DENISSE ALBORNOZ
Topic/Theme
TinyML and low-tech approaches to AI
Resources:
Topic/Theme
Abandonment of/by tech
Resources:
Topic/Theme
Intersection of project management in a global majority and global minority team
Resources:
Topic/Theme
AI storytelling in creative alternative formats, visual, audio driven ways, in different languages. Harmonizing that with cultural context and practices
Resources:
> Generative AI and Non-English Content: Bridging the Language Gap by Iva Marinova
> Impact Of AI On Cultural Narratives by Elliot Grove
> As AI giants duel, the Global South builds its own brainpower by Sibusiso Biyela, Amr Rageh and Shakoor Rather
Topic/Theme
The ethical implications of AI use and AI-assisted writing
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> Towards organizational guidelines for the responsible use of AI by Richard Benjamins (CEO and co-founder of the Spanish observatory for ethical and social impact of AI)
> Decolonial AI as Disenclosure by Warmhold Jan Thomas Mollema (researcher in the intersection of AI, decolonial theory, and epistemic justice)
> Recommendation on the ethics of artificial intelligence from UNESCO’s Digital Library
Topic/Theme
Materiality of technology/E-waste re use/Low-Tech and Urban mining
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> Cartography of generative AI by TallerEstampa
> Serie obsoletos por Librepensante.
> Índice Latino americano de inteligencia artificial por ILDA
Topic/Theme
The infrastructural impacts of AI data centers (pollution, jobs, waste)
Resources:
> Digital Infrastructures, Material Consequences, Data & Society (Garofalo, L., Woluchem, M., & Mukogosi)
> The costs of data centers to our communities– and how to fight back, Kairos
Fellowship & Media Justice (Finn, A)
> How the data center boom could harm Black communities, Canary Media (Mahoney, A)
Topic/Theme
Exploring perma-computing principles as a viable, applied approach to walking the paths towards a life-centered perspective to technology development
Resources:
> Permacomputing wiki
> Comunalidad digital, Sursiendo (2022)
> Future Histories of Other Networks, Lori Emerson, Our Networks (2024)

Topic/Theme
AI and algorithmic bias in African Contexts
Resources:
> Data Sovereignty and African Digital Commons by Sustainability Directory
> Creating community-driven datasets report by Mozilla Common Voice and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
> NIST publication on Towards a Standard for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence


Topic/Theme
AI for data driven storytelling: What are some of the tools that can assist with alternative storytelling especially data heavy content
Resources:
> The Enduring Power of Data Storytelling in the Generative AI Era by MIT Sloan Management Review
> How can we empower data communities in the era of generative AI? By aapti Institute
> Data and AI Development in the Global South by Open Data Charter


DEEP DIVE WEEK- HOME
BRIAN OBILO
GILLIAN WILLIAMS
JEN LYNN
LESEDI BEWLAY
MARWA ABAYED
NATHALY ESPITIA DIAZ
OLIVIA JOHNSON
PAOLA MOSSO
PATRICIA MUSOMBA
SISANDA NTSHINGA
> Cutting AI down to size By Sandeep Ravindran
> NetHope AI Lighthouse - Your Guide to Responsible, Purpose-Driven AI for Nonprofits.
> Cross-Cultural Challenges in Project Management from Leverage Projects
> The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Global Project Teams from PMWill
> Feminist Project Management Learning Brief by Coalition of Feminists for Social Change.
> Why your organization should have an AI Policy by Astrid Vinje.
> Open Alternatives to popular proprietary software tools.
> Tiny Tech Futures by Angela YT Chan and Bóxī Wú
> Everyday - a participatory artwork for daily device intimacies by Spencer Chang
> The Abandonment of Technology by Cameron Leckie
> Tradición y tecnología en la cultura oral por Eduardo Dopico Rodríguez (bilingual abstract)
> Story of an Abandoned Tech Factory(YouTube video) - Forgotten Buildings