Amira Dhalla is an educator who’s laser focused on technology as it intersects with inclusion, privacy, equity and rights. She’s currently working on her Masters of Public Administration in Human Rights and Technology, at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Previously, she was the Global Participation Programs — Gender and Education Lead at the Mozilla Foundation, where she developed a variety of programs that served to teach digital literacy and providing safe spaces for women online.
In this podcast interview we spoke to Amira at Decolonizing the Internet 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. We discussed Amira’s views on creating safe spaces online, whether the internet should have more governance, and why she believes that understanding what the words ‘colonize’ and ‘decolonize’ mean, alongside discomfort, is key for facilitating change in people.
