Toward deep assessments: On the possibility of decolonial digital technologies

Considering the coloniality of current digital tools and their increasingly massive global social and ecological impacts, we explore the question of what socio-cultural assemblages can contribute to deep civilizational transformations. Using a decolonial technology assessment approach, de-centring technologies by focusing on socio-technical praxes, this article examines what practices enable the use of information and communication tools to support communities and social movements in their emancipatory struggles while acknowledging the colonial infrastructures of those very technologies. We do so by examining documented examples of community networks deployed in different contexts to illustrate the challenges and promising perspectives arising from their approaches