In our first Portuguese episode, we welcome Kenzo Soares Seto (he), a resident researcher at Yale Law School and a fellow of the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy.Drawing on his unique trajectory, from street activism to parliamentary advising and academic research, Kenzo guides us through a profound discussion about the future of work and technology. He presents central concepts from his research, such as "platform subimperialism" and the "algorithm of the oppressed," showing how current digital technologies and big tech companies reproduce power relations and oppression in a Global South context.
The conversation moves on to practical alternatives: how can we build sovereign public policies and technologies that put control of data and algorithms in the hands of workers and communities?
With concrete examples, such as the initiatives of the MTST Technology Center and data_labe, Kenzo demonstrates that another digital world is possible, based on the solidarity economy, platform cooperativism, and the pedagogy of Paulo Freire.
This episode is an invitation to rethink technology not as a tool of exploitation, but as an instrument of liberation and the construction of dignified work for all.