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Bringing African Practices of Repair and Salvage into Dialogue with AI Ethics

In this webinar, Dr Samwel Moses Ntapanta (Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University) draws on ethnographic research in Tanzania and Kenya to examine the material afterlives of digital technologies, with a particular focus on electronic waste, repair, and reuse practices across African cities. The talk explores how technicians, recyclers, and informal workers engage with discarded electronics amid conditions of scarcity, toxicity, and infrastructural neglect. It situates these practices within broader global circuits of technological production, innovation, and disposal, and reflects on how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence intersect with existing e-waste economies and repair ecologies. Rather than focusing on AI as a standalone system, the webinar invites attention to the material, labour, and ecological dimensions that underpin digital technologies, raising questions about responsibility, value, and sustainability in contemporary technological futures.