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Infrastructuring AI: The Technopolitics of Chinese smart cities in Kenya

Iginio Gagliardone
University of the Witwatersrand, SA-UK Bilateral SARChI Chair in the Digital Humanities
Thursday 10 December 2026 · Online

Series: AI, Communication, and the Public Life: Critical Global Perspectives

A Communication and the Public (CAP) seminar, organised by Yu Hong in partnership with The Digital Silk Roads and Beyond, with support from Zhejiang University.

Scheduled, subject to ZJU administrative approval.

Start: 20:00 Beijing time.

Hong Kong 20:00 · Hangzhou / Beijing 20:00 · Manchester 12:00 · London 12:00 · Johannesburg 14:00
All times are local on Thursday 10 December 2026.

Iginio Gagliardone is Professor of Media Studies and holds the inaugural SA-UK Bilateral SARChI Chair in the Digital Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is also a Fellow of Wits’ Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute. His recent work examines the international politics of artificial intelligence and technological imaginaries in Africa and the Global South.

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