I seem to spend a lot of my working days reading, writing, and speaking about the harms and risks of our increasing digitalization, especially artificial intelligence. Granted, this all gets channelled into plans and actions to address harms and strengthen benefits: what individuals, institutions, networks can...
Saarbrücken (Germany) 2026 At the 47th Film Festival Max Ophuels Prize Saarbruecken, 19-25 January 2026, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, endowed with € 2500 by the Katholische Erwachsenenbildung Saarland - Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft e.V. and the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft für Evangelische Erwachsenenbildung im Saarland e.V., represented by the Evangelische Akademie...
Pamela Saab Ground Truth Solutions (GTS) works with crisis-affected communities around the world to ensure their voices shape the systems that are meant to support them. We’re an international NGO, founded in 2012 on a simple but powerful idea: people receiving aid should be in the...
Pinar Okur – Upinion Imagine a mother in a displacement camp, hundreds of miles from home. She has a smartphone in her hand – her lifeline to the world. But as she scrolls, she isn’t finding clarity. Instead, she finds many conflicting rumours: news that the...
Sriyanka Sahoo and Hemanta Kumar Dash Across several regions of eastern India, accusations of witchcraft continue to function as mechanisms of social exclusion and gendered violence. Women who are labelled as witches are often subjected to humiliation, physical assault, social boycott, and in extreme cases, murder....
Olga Paz Martinez, Marcya Hernández y Mónica Rodríguez Chaparro Internet representa una oportunidad para las personas; sin embargo, muchas poblaciones -especialmente mujeres, personas en zonas rurales, personas con capacidades diversas, personas mayores y poblaciones étnicas- enfrentan aún muchas barreras para acceder a los distintos servicios digitales...
Adrián López Angulo ¿Se imaginan que pueblos originarios de México estén operando su propia red de telefonía e internet móvil a nivel nacional? La historia que les quiero compartir se trata de cómo esa pregunta fue motor para el nacimiento de Wiki Katat y TIC OMV:...
Aniruddha Jena Across India’s marginalised regions, the struggle for communication justice is not only about access to media. It is also about who gets to speak in their own language, whose knowledge is treated as valid, and which communicative forms are allowed to endure in the...
Gustaff H. Iskandar The digital divide challenge remains a critical barrier to sustainable development in the Global South, with nearly one-third of the global population – approximately 2.6 billion people – remaining offline.1 This divide is not merely a lack of infrastructure; it is a complex...
It is a challenge to engage with digital communication technologies in ways that relate meaningfully to local community realities, and yet without undermining inherent values and traditional knowledge. In response, this issue of Media Development focuses on digital media literacy and cultural integrity to highlight...