Theorizing the Web 2014 included a panel on World Wide Web(s): Theorizing the Non-Western Web. The participants, from the program, follow:

• Presider / Jillet Sarah Sam @JilletSarahSam
• Hashmod / Alice Samson @theclubinternet
• Panelists:
  • David Peter Simon | @davidpetersimon | The Do-Gooder Industrial Complex?
  • Jason Q. Ng | @jasonqng | Fit for Public Display: Rethinking censorship via a comparison of Chinese Wikipedia with Hudong and Baidu Baike
  • Tolu Odumosu | @todumosu | Phoning the Web: A critical examination of Web infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Dalia Othman |@daliaothman | Social Media, Activism and the Middle East

The live tweets from the session included some interesting tidbits.

Interesting to think about how the physical locations of Web servers fit into discussions of international politics. #TtW14 #b1

— Grace AfsariMamagani (@gafsari) April 25, 2014

These 7 popular Nigerian sites are all hosted in the US or Europe, causing latency. @TOdumosu in #Ttw14 #b1

— Cat Goodfellow (@catgoodfellow) April 25, 2014

“A truly indigenous web is of paramount importance” - Tolu Odumosu #TtW14 #b1

— Kira Simon-Kennedy (@sk_kira) April 25, 2014

Tolu Odumosu on the Nigerian web: it’s mostly mobile and even local sites are hosted in the US, slowing down connections #TtW14 #b1

— Kira Simon-Kennedy (@sk_kira) April 25, 2014