Edition #11: December 3, 2024

Every month, She Writes highlights women contributors whose ideas deserve wider attention, and offers a curated selection of incisive commentaries written by women.

Cori Crider is Senior Fellow at Open Markets Institute and the Future of Tech Institute, where she examines ways to reshape digital markets so that they better serve both people and the planet. She previously co-founded Foxglove, a tech-justice NGO, and directed the national security team at Reprieve.

Foxglove won the United Kingdom’s first legal challenges to biased government algorithms in border control and student grading. The NGO has also pursued cases to enforce the rights of Facebook and Amazon workers, to defend patient autonomy in the use of health data, and more.

The EU Must Break Up Big Tech

Crider explains how reining in digital giants’ outsize power would boost competition and help combat climate change.

Claire Melamed is CEO of the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, a network of governments, private-sector actors, and civil-society organizations focused on harnessing and leveraging data and data technology to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, and she previously served as Managing Director of the Overseas Development Institute.

Working in the office of the United Nations Secretary-General, Melamed wrote “A World That Counts,” the report of the Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution.

Democracy’s Data Paradox

Melamed explains why reliable information is crucial to maintaining the integrity of political institutions.

PS Roundtable

The Return of Trump

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Carla Norrl?f, Cecilia Elena Rouse, and others consider what the outcome of the 2024 US presidential election will mean for America and the world.

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• In “Can Technology End Corruption?”, Azalina Othman Said thinks that powerful new digital tools can help, but only if governments commit to upholding the rule of law. Read now.
• In “Climate Action Must Rise Above Politics,” Nadia Calvi?o foresees multilateral development banks continuing to play a critical role in financing the green transition. Read now.
• In “To Prosper, India Must Close Its Gender Employment Gap,” Kanika Mahajan urges policymakers to create an inclusive labor market by implementing business-friendly measures. Read now.