Terrabyr
Tara Tarakiyee is a public interest technologist and a supporter of human rights, free and open internet, and open source software. I strive in my work to not only help protect those that need it the most from technological harms of pervasive surveillence and censorship, but as well to unlock the transformational potential of information technology as an enabler of human rights and as a tool to liberate societies from systemic oppression.
Session
Mass chip production depends on mineral extraction, labour exploitation, and billion-dollar fabs. Can hardware exist without these harms, or are they inseparable from computation itself? We will attempt to come up with a framing to distinguish political choices from technical constraints, and ask what we'd have to give up because its incompatible with our values.