Nino Todua When we speak about the digital future, we often imagine technology first: fast internet, new platforms, artificial intelligence, automated systems, or applications that make everyday life easier. But from the perspective of Georgia, the digital future is not only a question of technological progress....
In his visionary book La technique published in 1954, French philosopher Jacques Ellul wrote, “Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option, but a necessity imposed on all...
Data centers are here to stay. We may not be. There is still time – maybe – to act wisely....
With El Niño sharpening climate disinformation, the time is now to invest in community media – the key channels informing people and building trust....
Will artificial intelligence (AI) help or hinder the survival of minority languages into the next century? According to Ethnologue, a database of the world’s 7,168 living languages, almost half are endangered. Over 88 million people speak a language that may not survive this century except in...
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....