Unsettling Knowledge Inequities Podcast

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Unsettling Knowledge Inequities

The Knowledge Equity Lab and SPARC co-present a podcast series featuring conversations with diverse and multigenerational knowledge holders. Episodes aim to interrogate the politics of knowledge production and circulation and the global power dynamics that shape it – as well as highlight alternative models and collaborations between distinct knowledge traditions.

Season 3 : Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Inequities – Launched Fall 2022

This season, we continue our goal of interrogating the politics of knowledge production, exchange and circulation – but with a special focus on exploring the implications of the widespread and often uncritical use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies. In particular, we will examine how the use of these technologies by corporate publishers and data analytics companies can replicate and exacerbate existing structural and other forms of inequities in societies and in academia.

We will be in conversation with folks committed to bringing awareness to and challenging the potential impacts of these technologies, particularly on the equitable production, discovery and circulation of knowledge in academia and beyond.

Listen to the First Episode of Season Three: AI and Automating Knowledge Inequities

Listen to the Second Episode of Season Three: Data Cartels and Surveillance Publishing

Season 2 – Episodes and Transcripts

How was the global consensus on open science internationally negotiated and defined? What does it mean for open science to go beyond open access and open data — to openness to diverse participation, knowledge systems, languages, and outputs? How can open inclusive infrastructures be designed to enable equitable knowledge sharing?

Season 2 explores key themes from the ‘UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science’, and feature diverse participants and stakeholders who contributed to the development of the recommendations. Conversations will also highlight efforts to: advance open, equitable, community-driven infrastructure; cultivate knowledge democracy and plurality; nurture bibliodiversity and multilingualism; and amplify Indigenous and early-career knowledge perspectives — across different cultural, organizational, and geographic contexts.

**S2E1: Perspectives on the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation**

**S2E2: Knowledge Democracy & Open Science**

**S2E3: Budapest Open Access Initiative: Twenty Years On**

**S2E4: Indigenous Epistemologies & Open Science: Learning from the Land**

**S2E5: Early Career Researchers: open Science & Activism**

Season 1 – Episodes & Transcripts

**Episode 1:**
**Knowledge by Whom? Knowledge for Whom?**

**Episode 2**
**Centering Indigenous Knowledge: Lil’wat Principles of Teaching and Learning**

**Episode 3**
**Reducing Health Inequity Through Local Knowledge Production: The Case of African Health Sciences**

**Episode 4**
**Caste Abolition:** **Building Power Through Epistemic Justice**

**Episode 5**
**Art in the Service of Public Knowledge**

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I learnt so much from this episode and this podcast in general 👇 Really inspired by Dr Tumwine's work of 20+ years, his storytelling, and his call for global action to reduce knowledge & health inequities against the backdrop of the current pandemic. https://t.co/ALx2znjxiE
— Emmy Tsang (@emmy_ft) March 17, 2021

Fantastic new podcast by @KnowEquityLab on #narratives #knowledge production #decolonising research https://t.co/9DtQRHgoWn
— Equity-Based EiE Consulting (@jess_oddy) March 6, 2021

Excellent podcast series that explore issues related to politics of knowledge production, exchange and circulation and the structural, global power dynamics that shape it. Podcast – Knowledge Equity Lab https://t.co/FJKAlgBmQO
— Oya Y Rieger (@OyaRieger) March 12, 2021

This was so interesting & important. The need to unlearn so many systems & build in equity from the start. So much of the agenda in research outputs is set by STEM and big publishing. "Knowledge by Whom? Knowledge for Whom?" https://t.co/82Q9P7UqO2
Thanks @KnowEquityLab
— berniefolan (@berniefolan) March 11, 2021

Fascinating episode. Well worth a listen! (As are the other episodes in this inaugural mini series of the Unsettling Knowledge Inequities podcast from @KnowEquityLab) https://t.co/OeacO7OH8L
— Carol Goodey (@carol_goodey) April 11, 2021

I enjoyed this podcast immensely. Dr. Tumwine's call to action for collective good is very compelling https://t.co/NQWJMSnZ1q
— Giulia Forsythe (@giuliaforsythe) March 11, 2021

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Presented By:

Knowledge Equity Lab

Knowledge Equity Lab, housed at the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Centre for Global Development Studies, is a trans-disciplinary space that seeks to challenge multiple forms of exclusion within the structure of knowledge production and exchange.

Produced By:

Rethinking Development

Unsettling Knowledge Inequities is produced by Safa Shahkhalili of the Rethinking Development podcast & studio.

Presented By:

SPARC

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) works to enable the open sharing of research outputs and educational materials to democratize access to knowledge, accelerate discovery, and increase the return on our investment in research and education.