Spain takes a stand: Regulating Big Tech to protect children
According to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, social media platforms have become a “toxic, unpunished world” that “children were never meant to navigate...
09 February, 2026
The red thread in the news
Recent headlines I read run from the latest attempts by Donald Trump to own Greenland to Taylor Swift becoming the second–youngest ever inductee...
26 January, 2026
Trust, civic engagement, and shared responsibility in the digital age
Germany’s far-right political party Alternative für Deutschland recently relaunched a youth wing called Generation Deutschland. One of its posters portrays a young blond...
12 January, 2026
How far are we on the path to a people-centric, inclusive, and development-oriented Information Society?
After all, that is the vision of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), whose +20 outcomes will be finalized by UN...
15 December, 2025
Subjugating news and information to partisan interests
In 1960s Britain it was common for travelling salesmen (hardly ever women) to go from door to door selling subscriptions to the Encyclopaedia...
01 December, 2025
Will you take 16 days to help stop tech-facilitated gender-based violence?
When a woman was elected as the new member of parliament for my area, I was appalled at the misogyny and abusive comments...
25 November, 2025
Let’s not forget that climate change is a justice issue
Over the past few years, climate change has become a lighting rod issue in many countries of the Global North. Populist right-wing figures like...
03 November, 2025
Time to get serious about AI extractivism
In recent years, a lot has been said about the “extractivist” nature of today’s digital information ecosystem. While there has been some focus...
20 October, 2025
Shutting down the Internet subverts democracy
The Internet is the world’s digital lifeline. For the approximately 5.6 billion people connected to the Internet (some 70% of the global population),...
06 October, 2025
The flatline: Gender equality in media still just a dream
A Beijing+30 reflection Exactly 30 years ago today, hope for a new dawn for women and girls was palpable. Governments and civil society that had...
22 September, 2025
Reinventing multilateralism through communication rights
Have you ever read through the agenda of a United Nations General Assembly? The 80th regular session of the General Assembly opens tomorrow, 9...
08 September, 2025
The importance of the right to memory
Visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is harrowing. It records, in photos, artifacts, quotes, and stories, the days and months following the dropping...
25 August, 2025