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”.
Coal dust preserves within my cells
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.
What does this year's (2024) budgets mean for digital access and the divide?
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.
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.
Salutes on International Workers' day!
Digital Ecosystems and Social Impact: WSA 2024 Global Review of National Developments
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.
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.
