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Across the Global South, Digital Public Infrastructure is being sold as a leap forward for inclusion and modern governance. But as Pamodi Hewawaravita reveals, these systems often deepen exclusion, entrench surveillance, and blur the line between public good and private control.
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Miraj Chowdhury examines how the Trump administration’s alliance with Big Tech is reshaping not just US regulation but global digital governance — with far-reaching consequences for rights, power and accountability.
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From app removals in China to quiet compliance in Hong Kong, Benjamin Ismail traces the rise of platform-enabled censorship and the complicity of global tech giants in enabling digital authoritarianism.
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Sam de Silva (SD), founding producer of Balance, and Sam Chua (SC), founding curator of Seapunk Studios, discuss how imagination, fiction and decentralised design can open up new ways of thinking about power, technology and resistance.
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In India, the rise of Hindu nationalism is both political and digital. Connecting grassroots mobilisation to click farms and vigilantes, Aishik Saha reveals the merger between digital capitalism and political ideology, and why reimagining the internet infrastructure is now a democratic imperative.
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From Friendster to Facebook, discreet blogs to divisive feeds, Katherine Francisco shares her emotional journey through the rise — and rupture — of digital communities.
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Lizzie O’Shea examines Australia’s uneven approach to tech regulation, highlighting the gap between public support for stronger safeguards and a political system swayed by industry influence and the global power of Big Tech.
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The traditional approach to fighting censorship can be an exhausting technical game. By focusing on a needs-first approach, Patrick Boehler discusses how the fight against censorship and oppression must provide information essential for daily life.
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In this essay, Pradipa P. Rasidi traces how Indonesia’s pro-democracy volunteers and civil society actors helped build the country’s digital influence industry.
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As debates over AI safety, ethics and regulation intensify, Ranjitha Kumar and Vinay Narayan examine how Global South actors are carving out their own approaches — not by trying to win the AI arms race but by reimagining the game entirely.