This story weaves grief, ecological destruction, technological collapse, and political resistance into a narrative that questions the systems sustaining both digital infrastructures and extractive economies. Blending fiction, political commentary, and artistic imagination, the piece follows two characters grappling with loss, misinformation, and the erasure of working-class lives that sustain the global tech economy through mining and resource extraction at the behest of resource greedy tech authoritarians.

This article explores “coding care” as a feminist approach to reimagining technology around relationships, justice, and ecological responsibility. Drawing on diverse experiences, it highlights four trajectories that collectively show how feminist technologists are challenging extractive and exclusionary systems by building alternative infrastructures, learning spaces, and governance models. The piece argues for technology grounded in collective safety, accessibility, sustainability, and community autonomy as the basis for more just digital futures.

This article explores how feminist repair labs across the Global Majority reclaim technology as a practice of care, resilience, and climate adaptation. Starting from e-waste sites like Agbogbloshie in Ghana, it frames repair spaces as grassroots responses to extractive tech economies. These labs help sustain connectivity during crises while promoting collective knowledge and environmental responsibility.

This document tells you how to contribute a country report proposal for the 2026 special edition of Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch). It also provides background on the Safety for Voices project, details the themes of the special edition, and tells you more about the process of contributing country reports. Deadline: January 15, 2026