DATA CHAINS:- Digital Colonialism and Tax Sovereignty fromCottonwool skies from floor fifteen.
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“Digital colonialism is not a metaphor. It is a structural phenomenon that entrenches dependencies, erodes national and individual autonomy, and perpetuates the very global inequalities that formal decolonization was meant to abolish.”
— Marcus Vinícius De Freitas, Digital Sovereignty and Data Colonialism: Shaping a Just Digital Order for the Global South, Policy Center for the New South (Policy Paper, 2025)
About the Book - DATA CHAINS Digital Colonialism and Tax Sovereignty
From Cottonwool Skies from Floor Fifteen (2015/16) to Data Chains (2026): A transition from atmosphere to automation.
From the fifteenth floor, clouds once floated free, captured only in photographs: ephemeral, shifting, unowned. Today, they carry the cables, contracts, and dashboards that shape global power. DATA CHAINS follows the journey from atmospheric clouds to digital “clouds” controlled through tax agreements, undersea cables, and AI‑driven oversight.
Using the France–Nigeria Tax Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed on 10/12/2025, as a case study, this booklet shows how technical cooperation becomes economic visibility and how visibility becomes leverage. Blending photography, policy analysis, and diaspora insight, Atinuke Oduneye reveals the quiet mechanisms of digital looting and the fiscal dependencies that follow.
From Cottonwool Skies to Data Chains, this project traces a transition from atmosphere to automation—from visible clouds of freedom above the city to invisible digital clouds where data becomes the new atmosphere of control. It asks a simple question with global consequences: who owns the skies now, and who extracts value from the clouds?
Disclaimer
This booklet is for educational and policy‑awareness purposes only. It presents independent research on digital sovereignty, data protection, and international tax cooperation and does not constitute legal, tax, or political advice.
“In the twenty-first century, power no longer arrives on ships; digital looting travels through cables and clouds, turning human lives into data fields to be governed and mined.”
- Inspired by contemporary debates on digital colonialism and data sovereignty in the Global South
“What was atmosphere becomes infrastructure. Who owns your data sky.” - Atinuke Oduneye, MA CIPD
A photograph album with a difference. Why not have a look. Get your copy !!! About the Book:
COTTONWOOL SKIES FROM FLOOR FIFTEEN
(Photo Booklet, 2016)
DATA CHAINS – Digital Colonialism and Tax Sovereignty 2026
From the fifteenth floor, clouds once floated free—captured only in photographs, ephemeral, shifting, unowned. Today, they symbolize cables, contracts, and dashboards that shape global power.
DATA CHAINS evolves that 2016 photo booklet into policy analysis, tracing atmospheric freedom to digital "clouds" controlled through tax agreements, undersea cables, and AI-driven oversight. Using the France–Nigeria Tax MoU (10/12/25) as live case study, this guide reveals how technical cooperation becomes economic visibility—and visibility becomes leverage.
Blending original cloud photographs, policy analysis, and diaspora insight, Atinuke Oduneye exposes digital looting mechanisms and fiscal dependencies. From Cottonwool Skies (2016) poetic gaze to 2026 coded infrastructure, one question endures:
"What was atmosphere becomes infrastructure. Who owns your data sky?"
Disclaimer
This booklet serves educational and policy awareness purposes only.
It presents independent research on digital sovereignty, data protection, and international tax cooperation using publicly available official documents, peer-reviewed academic studies, and open sources.
NOT legal, tax, or political advice. Consult qualified professionals for personal/organizational action. No liability accepted for outcomes from information use.
"What was atmosphere becomes infrastructure. Who owns your data sky?" — Atinuke Oduneye
£9.99 Digital | £25.99 Paperback Policy Guide |
ISBN: 978-1-943276-50-9
— Marcus Vinícius De Freitas, Digital Sovereignty and Data Colonialism: Shaping a Just Digital Order for the Global South, Policy Center for the New South (Policy Paper, 2025)
About the Book - DATA CHAINS Digital Colonialism and Tax Sovereignty
From Cottonwool Skies from Floor Fifteen (2015/16) to Data Chains (2026): A transition from atmosphere to automation.
From the fifteenth floor, clouds once floated free, captured only in photographs: ephemeral, shifting, unowned. Today, they carry the cables, contracts, and dashboards that shape global power. DATA CHAINS follows the journey from atmospheric clouds to digital “clouds” controlled through tax agreements, undersea cables, and AI‑driven oversight.
Using the France–Nigeria Tax Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed on 10/12/2025, as a case study, this booklet shows how technical cooperation becomes economic visibility and how visibility becomes leverage. Blending photography, policy analysis, and diaspora insight, Atinuke Oduneye reveals the quiet mechanisms of digital looting and the fiscal dependencies that follow.
From Cottonwool Skies to Data Chains, this project traces a transition from atmosphere to automation—from visible clouds of freedom above the city to invisible digital clouds where data becomes the new atmosphere of control. It asks a simple question with global consequences: who owns the skies now, and who extracts value from the clouds?
Disclaimer
This booklet is for educational and policy‑awareness purposes only. It presents independent research on digital sovereignty, data protection, and international tax cooperation and does not constitute legal, tax, or political advice.
“In the twenty-first century, power no longer arrives on ships; digital looting travels through cables and clouds, turning human lives into data fields to be governed and mined.”
- Inspired by contemporary debates on digital colonialism and data sovereignty in the Global South
“What was atmosphere becomes infrastructure. Who owns your data sky.” - Atinuke Oduneye, MA CIPD
A photograph album with a difference. Why not have a look. Get your copy !!! About the Book:
COTTONWOOL SKIES FROM FLOOR FIFTEEN
(Photo Booklet, 2016)
DATA CHAINS – Digital Colonialism and Tax Sovereignty 2026
From the fifteenth floor, clouds once floated free—captured only in photographs, ephemeral, shifting, unowned. Today, they symbolize cables, contracts, and dashboards that shape global power.
DATA CHAINS evolves that 2016 photo booklet into policy analysis, tracing atmospheric freedom to digital "clouds" controlled through tax agreements, undersea cables, and AI-driven oversight. Using the France–Nigeria Tax MoU (10/12/25) as live case study, this guide reveals how technical cooperation becomes economic visibility—and visibility becomes leverage.
Blending original cloud photographs, policy analysis, and diaspora insight, Atinuke Oduneye exposes digital looting mechanisms and fiscal dependencies. From Cottonwool Skies (2016) poetic gaze to 2026 coded infrastructure, one question endures:
"What was atmosphere becomes infrastructure. Who owns your data sky?"
Disclaimer
This booklet serves educational and policy awareness purposes only.
It presents independent research on digital sovereignty, data protection, and international tax cooperation using publicly available official documents, peer-reviewed academic studies, and open sources.
NOT legal, tax, or political advice. Consult qualified professionals for personal/organizational action. No liability accepted for outcomes from information use.
"What was atmosphere becomes infrastructure. Who owns your data sky?" — Atinuke Oduneye
£9.99 Digital | £25.99 Paperback Policy Guide |
ISBN: 978-1-943276-50-9