Chapter 124: Humans In The Loop
"AI is like a child."
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Chapter 123: What Privacy? What Journalism? Press Freedom in the Age of DPDP
The United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day, a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom. In this chapter, we use insights from the discussion we had in a session at WSA Congress 2025 in Hyderabad, by Nikhil Dey of MKSS and Sangeeta Barooah of Press Club of India on the intersection of the new Data Protection Bill and what it means for journalism and media in general.
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Chapter 122: Sharing, Development, People, and the Question of Redistribution -A Report from Development Policy and Practice Conference 2025
The Development Policy and Practice Conference 2025 brought together academics, lawmakers, and practitioners to talk about the most important problems of our time. The world is still trying to figure out how to deal with issues like inequality, social justice, and development. The meeting, which took place at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) in Hyderabad, India, gave people a chance to talk about important issues and work together to make policies that would help with problems in government, economic inclusion, and social justice. The main idea of the meeting was "Sharing, Development, People, and the Question of Redistribution." The next panels and discussions looked at how tax policies, climate change, healthcare, education, and legal changes all affect each other. This gave everyone a chance to see development and fairness from a wide range of angles. In this blog post, we'll talk about the most important things we learnt from the conference, including the most important problems and possible answers that came up during the discussions.
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Chapter 121: Digitally excluded, then and now
What’s the meaning of Digital Exclusion. Unfortunately India and its larger mass is more digitally excluded than included. Let’s try to understand by live examples from past and present.
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Chapter 120: Youth and the Internet - Reflections from the 7th Youth IGF Forum
This week's typeright is based on reflections by Maitri Singh, from DEF's Research and Advocacy Division, who attended the 7th Youth IGF forum last month at IIM Bangalore.
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Chapter 119: What are we Reading in 2025?
This week, TypeRight explores what the research team at DEF is reading in the news, and other books we got our hands on!
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Chapter 118: Open AI is not so Open, but Chin[A](I) might be?
This week, Typeright takes a dig into the new AI contender and what it means for us.
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Chapter 117: Town Halls X Trump Towers
Two years ago, Elon Musk acquired Twitter, rebranded it X, and some of us thought it was the not one of his better business deals. Now, Elon, the 21st century reactionary of Silicon Valley, stands at the cusp of having access to the US government in ways unprecedented by the tech-elite so far. This week, Typeright takes a look.
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Chapter 116: UN's Global Digital Compact - Youth, Women and Unconnected from Rural India
In order to promote a common goal for the future of digital technology, the United Nations has introduced a proposed international framework called the Global Digital Compact (GDC). It sets up guidelines for online human rights protection, data security, digital inclusion, and worldwide solidarity and accountability in the digital sphere.
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Chapter 115: (Once) We (were) The People - Gender, AI & Community: Voices from 8th CNX 2024
Since the first conference in 2017, the Community Network Xchange (CNX) has become a gathering place for those who work with or are interested in community networks to discuss issues like economic and social sustainability, increasing Wi-Fi availability, and connecting Indigenous communities. Every year, practitioners from different nations meet and share their knowledge and experience. This year, the Pacific Asia Conference of CNX met at T-Hub, Hyderabad, coinciding with the DEF-organised Digital Citizen Summit 2024, and had case stories from India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Philippines and Nepal along with multiple sessions on understanding the intersections between community networks enabled digital development and gender inclusion, climate action, cultural and language preservation, integration of AI practices for digital inclusion and solidarity practices.
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Chapter 114: We (are not) The People - Vignettes from the Sixth Digital Citizen Summit - Voices from the Ground
Happy New Year. Hope the year 2025 truly be something that succeeds in making us regain “We The People”.
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Chapter 113: In the Shadow of Coal Dust -The story of Just Transition and Economic Diversification of Jharkhand’s Bokaro and Ramgarh
Coal dust preserves within my cells
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Chapter 112: People are ubiquitous; Technologies are not
Book Review: Fintech for Billions - Simple, Human, Ubiquitous
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Chapter 111: The Totopara Tribes are Linguistically Endangered and Unconnected
By Siddhant Pasricha
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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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