Les plateformes numériques et le BIG RESET de la connaissance

This article analyzes the phenomenon of knowledge platformization, i.e. the entry into the educational market of the digital giants (GAFAM). Some examples are given concerning Spain and especially Italy, where schools and universities are still using GAFAM tools a year after the beginning of the pandemic. However, the agreements between ministries of education, universities and these digital platforms do not simply imply a technological dependence and a problem of data exploitation. It is becoming increasingly clear that these companies will use the data to offer educational services and create courses and diplomas in competition with public education. This process of progressive digitalization of education, on the other hand, separates the bodies and challenges the possibility of developing a relationship between students and teachers. But the Big Reset of knowledge infrastructures has a geopolitical significance that goes beyond the educational sector. Digital platforms are colonizing other strategic areas of knowledge. Our response to these massive phenomena of control and standardization should be to cultivate and defend biocultural and technological diversity at the global level. Not only to resist homogenization, but also to confound and override their algorithmic governance mechanisms.