Chapter 124: Humans In The Loop
"AI is like a child."
"AI is like a child."
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.
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.
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.
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.
This week, TypeRight explores what the research team at DEF is reading in the news, and other books we got our hands on!
This week, Typeright takes a dig into the new AI contender and what it means for us.
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.
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.
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.
Happy New Year. Hope the year 2025 truly be something that succeeds in making us regain “We The People”.
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Book Review: Fintech for Billions - Simple, Human, Ubiquitous
By Siddhant Pasricha
FIELD REPORT: Dharchula, Pittoragarh
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.
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.'
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.
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.
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.