Introducing The Algorithmic Review (TAR)
Every year, about 50 million startups are launched globally. By the time you finish this roughly four-minute read, an estimated 381 startups will have been founded and roughly 5–10% will operate in technology-driven sectors. Technology is not just shaping our lives; it is being produced at a scale and speed that outpaces our capacity to regulate, adapt, or even notice. This is why we are creating a platform to allow expert contributors to write about emerging technologies and their role and impact on our lives and society. We believe that good writing can shape perceptions, trigger curiosity, and answer hard questions. Welcome to The Algorithmic Review, a reliable platform where emerging technology experts can share their complex and technical knowledge as digestible content for all readers.
The Algorithmic Review (TAR) is an online publication dedicated to illuminating the rapidly changing landscape of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies through the lens of scholarly expertise. Our mission is simple: to make complex research understandable, accessible, and actionable. We translate what is happening inside research labs, boardrooms, academic and policy circles into stories that matter to the wider world.
Why now?
Technology is evolving faster than our ability to understand its social consequences. A handful of corporations and governments now wield unprecedented power through algorithmic systems that shape economies, influence elections, and mediate human relationships. Meanwhile, many of the world’s communities, especially those in the Global Majority, remain excluded from the conversations and decisions that define the digital future.
The world does not lack knowledge about technology; it lacks bridges between those who create it, those who study it, and those who live with its consequences. The Algorithmic Review exists to build those bridges.
We are on a mission to bridge technology, justice and accountability one story at a time.
We bring together academics, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to explain, question, and challenge the technologies remaking our societies. We believe that understanding AI and other emerging technologies should not be a privilege reserved for experts or corporations, it should be a public good.
What makes us different
We understand the power of a well-written article: that is why TAR would be home to many. We believe that if you must write, then as James Baldwin suggests, “write in order to change the world…”. The Algorithmic Review is not driven by hype or press releases. We do not publish paid or promotional content. Every article is anchored in evidence and guided by intellectual independence. We ask our contributors to disclose funding sources, political affiliations, and potential conflicts of interest, because credibility begins with transparency.
Our model is collaborative, not extractive. We invite experts to share their knowledge, and in return, we ensure their insights are freely accessible to all. Every piece we publish is released under a Creative Commons license, allowing anyone, from journalists and bloggers to educators and policymakers, to republish our work with attribution. This open model reflects our belief that ideas grow stronger when they circulate freely.
Our lens: the global majority
Too often, conversations about emerging technologies are dominated by voices from Silicon Valley, Brussels, or Beijing. Yet the consequences of these technologies are felt everywhere, from Nairobi to New Delhi, São Paulo to Lagos.
We center perspectives from the Global Majority, a term that recognizes the 85% of the world’s population living outside the traditional centers of power. Their experiences, innovations, and ethical frameworks are not peripheral to the future of technology; they are central to it.
Our contributors will explore how technology interacts with social realities across diverse contexts: how data colonialism manifests across the world, how algorithms might affect informal economies, how language models reshape identity and culture in multilingual societies, and how policy innovations in the Global Majority can offer lessons to the rest of the world.
How you can contribute
If you are a researcher, policymaker, practitioner, or academic with something to say, we want to hear from you. Do not write your article yet; start with a pitch. Tell us what new idea, finding, or perspective you want to share, and why it matters now.
Our editors will work with you to shape your argument and ensure it resonates with a global audience. Each piece undergoes rigorous but collaborative editing to preserve your voice while enhancing clarity and accessibility. We want our readers, whether they are academics, business leaders, policymakers or everyday citizens, to walk away with understanding, not confusion.
Our commitment
The Algorithmic Review adheres to the highest editorial standards. Accuracy, fairness, and independence are non-negotiable. Our editors do not accept gifts, samples, or investments from entities they cover. We believe that trust is earned through consistency and care — not clicks.
Our publication goes beyond observing technology to shaping the conversation around it. We will publish opinion pieces, commentaries, and feature pieces that will engage with the ethical, social, and political implications of emerging technologies, but always with reason, evidence, and accountability.
A new public square
With The Algorithmic Review, we are building a public square where complexity is unpacked, expertise is democratized, and the future is debated in full view of those it will most affect: all of us. In an age when information moves at the speed of code, slowing down to think, carefully, critically, collectively, may be the most radical act of all. The Algorithmic Review begins that act today.