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by Stephanie Nicolle A Sri Lankan gig worker, popular for his delivery vlogs, begins filming another package run. Strong winds shake his motorbike as he rides along the Southern coastline, prompting him to briefly stop. His phone receives an alert: Cyclone Ditwah is imminent, and his route is at high
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by Irma Garnesia This essay is based on interviews with journalists, editors, lawyers, fact-checkers, activists, and digital rights advocates between May and August 2025 as part of the Australian National University’s ‘Information Abundance in Southeast Asia’ project. It contends that Indonesia’s current digital ecosystem systematically leaves women vulnerable
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by Vaishali Soni The Promise We Logged Into Advertising. Agenda. Anxiety. Brainrot. Diabolical. Doomscrolling. Echo chambers. Polarising. Unavoidable. Voice. In 2025, Point of View organised multi-city consultations across India — Goa, Bangalore, Mumbai, Delhi, and Hyderabad — with women, gender-diverse people, sex workers, people with disabilities, designers, technologists, and researchers to reimagine
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by Samik Kharel Over three months after a Gen Z uprising toppled Nepal’s government, the revolution has not ended. What began in September 2025 as protests against a sweeping ban on major social-media platforms has since evolved into something far more complex- an ongoing struggle over political meaning, legitimacy,
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by Divine Nwobodo Chidera In a shared workspace in Yaba, Lagos, a software developer is training a small language model to understand Yoruba proverbs. The system translates the words accurately, yet consistently misses the wisdom hidden in pauses, tone, and cultural context. “It understands the sentence,” she says, “but not