Chapter 110: “Hum us jagah to Jannat kehte hain” - (We call that place (Internet) a paradise)
FIELD REPORT: Dharchula, Pittoragarh
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Chapter 109: 19 Years later, What Right Do We Have to Information?
This week on TypeRight, we take a look at the history of the Right to Information Act and what has become of it nineteen years later.
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Chapter 108: Taipei Report - APRIGF 2024
This week, in TypeRight, we share the field report from the Asia Pacific Regional IGF 2024, written by Jenny Sulfath, who represented DEF at the event. This year's theme was 'Evolving Ecosystems, Enduring Principles: Shaping Responsible Internet Governance.'
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Chapter 107: Yet Another Long Walk; Yet Another Datafication; Yet Another Exclusion
This is one of several images that marked one side of the COVID-19 Pandemic, as several thousand of India's migrant workers found themselves trapped in other cities across the country, with workplaces shut in the lockdown, wages frozen, and access to basic rations lost. As the lockdown stretched on, some workers managed to get on trains home, while others walked.
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Chapter 106: What We Talk About When We Talk About Disconnecting
As discussions roll in about a new law in Australia that empowers workers by disconnecting during non-work hours, this week at TypeRight, we think of what disconnecting means outside of First-World economies.
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Chapter 105: Dance of Democracy - Digital Narrative of Indian Election 2024
This Chapter of TypeRight has tried to track the digital narrative of the grand Indian Lok Sabha election vis-a-vis use of social media, campaign and propaganda of political parties through digital media and how the Indian digital consumers being targeted through medium and the messages.
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Chapter 104: Budget-ing the digital, '24.
What does this year's (2024) budgets mean for digital access and the divide?
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Chapter 103: When the Internet Redefined Radical Journalism - Use case WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
Last week, as Julian Assange finally left his 2x3 prison cell where he stayed in isolation for the past half a decade, this week's TypeRight goes back to see what the legacy the entire episode leaves behind on the Internet.
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Chapter Hundred-Two: AI-ed Platforms, Platformised AI
Many parts of our society have been changed by the fast development of the internet and digitization, especially in the realm of economics. This includes changes in company practices, changes in consumer behaviour (with consumers becoming prosumers), the introduction of digital platforms, and the establishment of the network economy.
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Chapter Hundred-One: The Grotesque Ghastliness of Gamified Gig-work
Salutes on International Workers' day!
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Chapter Hundred: Reviews of Digital Developments - Positives & Negatives
Digital Ecosystems and Social Impact: WSA 2024 Global Review of National Developments
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Chapter Nintey-Nine: Hatred in the Democracy; Women Cadre as Fact Checkers
Hate is a new business across digital platforms. Hate is a new strategy, political strategy. Hate is trending almost every day on social media platforms. Hate is most watched, most engaged, most shared, most reshared, and unchecked. The challenge is should hate be fought, challenged, or worked upon to be prevented? In this chapter of TypeRight, we would share our observations how is a termite to democracy, and we will also share how at Digital Empowerment Foundation, it is being taken at a national level to fight by preparing hundreds of cadres to become fact checkers and information councillors.
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Chapter Ninety-Eight: Social Media - Who was I made for?
In December 2023, Rishi Sunak, once again, made headlines for a bold and controversial policy proposition which seeks to ban social media usage for those under 16 citing mental health and well-being reasons. Shortly after the statement, Sunak was deeply criticised for the proposition and an article published in The Guardian went as far as calling the plan ‘silly.’ Since then, three months have passed, however, no further development has been observed on that front.
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Chapter Ninety-Seven: How Meta shadowbans Palestine into silence
Social Media platforms are the final frontier of all means of journalism and media. Any form of intended censorship through algorithm and bias cannot be a norm. The Shadowbanning of Palestine related news and information can be a great case in learning how censorship is practiced in the time of Platform dependencies.
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Chapter Ninety-Six: Dark clouds of digital trees in our lives and 21 years of DEF’s work with the marginalised
In this late New Years' chapter of TypeRight, we recap the developments of the past year across digital rights and access, and also take a look at our work on the same as we enter the twenty-second year of our founding.
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Chapter Ninety-Five: Big Brother snoops again? And other readings…
After initial reports of the Pegasus surfaced in 2021, and several denials by the state, last month we see fresh news of some new snooping. We take a look. And we also add several news and analyses for referential reading. Happy New Year 2024.
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Chapter Nintey-four: Women from the margins are leading the way!
‘Women Empowering Women’ documents the journey of several women who’ve fought against struggles and built their own enterprise from scratch. Their process of personal and social change along with gaining power and control over their life’s choices, is what makes their stories of empowerment worth giving a read. Digital empowerment for these women was like a multi-dimensional process which enabled them to unlock their true potential and identities. They developed businesses and were financially independent, which for them was a turning point in life. Digital Empowerment Foundation has helped them provide a platform for achieving functional digital literacy and is extremely delighted to see their growth as important individuals in society. On the basis of patriarchal views, women have suffered, but now they have the opportunity to succeed in all spheres of life and this is a testimony of such transformations.
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Chapter Ninety-Three: Access, Marginality
From the release of Bihar's Caste Census to national demands of a similar census, premier institutes witnessing caste-suicides and surveys confirming its prevalence, some developments of the past month prompt us to ask how far has digital access and equity gone for the marginalised communities?
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Chapter Ninety-Two: War, Disinformation, Internet Blackouts and Casualties
This week's TypeRight looks into internet blackouts, disinformation campaigns, and how they legitimise war and massacres, in relation to the recent incidents in the middle east.
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Chapter Ninety-one: The New Delhi Declaration and Digital Public Infrastructure
The G20 Conference concluded recently in New Delhi, under India's presidency with several accolades and a handful of criticism. This week we analyse the event for what it entails for digital public infrastructure. One of the points the preamble of the G20 New Delhi Leaders' Declaration commits to:
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