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11 Aug 2025 In the face of genocide, no place for silence

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]The current Israeli regime is responsible for carrying out genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. This is the opinion of a United Nations Special Committee, Amnesty International, Médecins Sans Frontières, B’Tselem, and Physicians for Human...

28 Jul 2025 US exit from UNESCO underscores need for civil society to step up

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The US government just announced it will withdraw from UNESCO (again) effective December 31, 2026, stating that “[c]ontinued involvement in UNESCO is not in the national interest of the United States.” UNESCO'S statement in response was a diplomatic shrug, underlining that they were prepared anyway for...

A group of about 25 people sit and stand on the ground in front an earthen, thatched-roof building and watch something on a laptop screen sitting on a post. The light from the screen illuminates their faces in the dark.

15 Jul 2025 Financing digital justice: Turning vision into reality

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Advancing digital rights, connecting billions, and democratizing data will cost money. After the last week’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)+20 High Level Event it is clear: if we want to achieve digital justice and inclusion, we need to discuss how this process will...

30 Jun 2025 Beyond Connectivity – Advocating Community at the World Summit on the Information Society

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Today, 30 June, is “World Social Media Day” – a commemoration created by the website Mashable in 2010 that celebrates the transformative power of social media. That transformation – with all its positive and negative real world impacts – is part of the information eco-system under...

16 Jun 2025 All the lies, distortions, and fake news fit to print

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“All the news that’s fit to print” was a motto adopted by American newspaper publisher Adolph S. Ochs – an immigrant from Germany – when he took over The New York Times in 1895. It signified the newspaper’s commitment to accurate, impartial, and ethical news...

05 Jun 2025 The wild west of AI regulation

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The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act intended to deliver the President’s domestic agenda. Among the provisions is a 10-year moratorium on states from regulating artificial intelligence. It reads: “…no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce, during the...

21 May 2025 Communication justice must be at heart of decolonizing international development

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The availability of funding for international development is on the decline.The United States, the world’s largest international development donor in historical terms, recently announced massive foreign aid cuts. It also dismantled much of its institutional capacity to deliver development programs and humanitarian assistance and announced...

05 May 2025 World Press Freedom Day: A reminder to think local

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When I started to think about World Press Freedom Day (3 May) this year, my mind – and fingers on the keyboard – went first to the existential crisis facing the traditional media industry, battered as it is from so many economic, political, technological, and...

22 Apr 2025 Big Tech’s water grab

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Water and digital technologies – we can’t live without them. But while people in many parts of the world are running short of water, digital technologies are consuming more and more. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google operate data centres that take vast amounts of water from some...

07 Apr 2025 From therapy to coffee: Should we worry that AI is rewriting human roles?