ABOUT

Janine Patricia Santos, PhD is a social anthropologist working on themes of youth, digitalisation and Global North – Global South relations in digital transformation and digital infrastructure development. She has researched, taught and published extensively on decolonization, marxist and feminist critiques on the digital tech landscape, and continues her affiliations with academic networks and institutions to which she was previously part of prior to working at EDRi (KU Leuven, Monash University Australia, among others). She has also worked as a Policy Officer/Researcher for the Office of the President of the Philippines where she is original from, establishing the National Registry to provide social protection to precarious workers in the audio-visual industry. She remains involved in youth, artist and migrant activist groups in Belgium, Europe and the Philippines.