Mental Health Action

Martin Blanchard writes:

“In an interview with Arun Kundnani, Seda Gürses – a critical computer scientist at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands – discusses the ways tech corporations such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon  acquired new powers in public health as a result of the response to COVID, and the issues of corporate power and accountability that this raises. It’s an issue that’s generally been largely ignored, and Seda explains how these new developments do not fit earlier paradigms of privatization and algorithmic power. She brings some really thought-provoking ideas which raise profound questions about the new world being invisibly created around us. Seda works with a group called Programmable Infrastructures, which looks at developing  alternatives to corporate computing.”

You can view the interview here.

For Martin’s transcript of the conversation, follow this link.