Digital Colonialism and the Architecture of Global Power: Technological Hegemony, Data Sovereignty, and the Structural Subordination of the Global South

“The emergence of digital infrastructure as the primary medium of economic, political, and social organization in the twenty-first century has engendered a new modality of asymmetrical global power, variously theorized as digital colonialism. This paper interrogates the structural conditions under which transnational technology corporations — concentrated overwhelmingly in the United States — have established quasi-monopolistic control over the global digital ecosystem, encompassing data flows, cloud computing infrastructure, algorithmic governance, and platform architectures.”,