Victor Zhenyi WangThe central role of privacy in digital social innovationIn this article, I argue that for practitioners of tech for development, we need to position privacy as a central value.Apr 32Apr 32
Victor Zhenyi WangIs privacy essentially contested?The difficulty in coming up with a precise and universal definition for privacy has proven that privacy itself may be under-theorised…Mar 21Mar 21
Victor Zhenyi Wang[Book Reviews] Why Privacy Matters (Neil Richards) & Privacy is Power (Carissa Veliz)Privacy has always been a nebulous concept for me. In the digital age, we have a common understanding of privacy as positioned against…Jan 10Jan 10
Victor Zhenyi WangWho gets to live in techno-utopia? Disability rights, eugenics, and effective altruismIn September, I attended Manifest, a forecasting and prediction markets conference. This conference attracted a unique combination of…Dec 30, 2023Dec 30, 2023
Victor Zhenyi Wang[Book Review] Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of ImperialismReading Kwame Nkrumah in 2023 feels both archeological and soberingly futurist. Development practitioners today bear a complicated and…Sep 12, 2023Sep 12, 2023
Victor Zhenyi WangBurnout, time, the will to go onI’d heard of diabetes burnout before but I was surprised when it happened to me.Jul 3, 2023Jul 3, 2023
Victor Zhenyi WangSky burial, 2019Overnight, one of the nuo had passed. His body, strangely glassy, lay prone in the grass, in a puddle of slushy dew. In the cold dawn, each…May 2, 2023May 2, 2023
Victor Zhenyi WangGlobal philanthropy and justiceA review of GD Blunt’s recent paper ‘The Gates Foundation, global health and domination: a republican critique of transnational…Jan 19, 2023Jan 19, 2023
Victor Zhenyi WangWhy I don’t specify my type of diabetesThere is a lot of negative stigma about diabetes. We are perceived for the most part as having brought this condition on through our own…Sep 26, 2022Sep 26, 2022
