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Myanmar’s military coup has pushed its fledgling digital economy to the brink of collapse

pubsub.do.nohost.me / Rest of World · Thursday, 15 April, 2021 - 10:00

Seng Lu runs a convenience store in Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State in the northeast of Myanmar. Like thousands of other small shopkeepers across the country, she offers more...

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La sorpresiva elección de Perú revela profundas divisiones digitales

pubsub.do.nohost.me / Rest of World · Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 - 20:35

Cuando CNN anunció los resultados de la primera vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales en Perú el pasado 11 de abril, la imagen que usaron fue llamativa. O, más bien, la...

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Peru’s presidential election upset reveals deep digital division

pubsub.do.nohost.me / Rest of World · Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 - 17:15

When CNN announced the results for the first round of Peru’s presidential election on Sunday, April 11, the image they used was striking — or rather, the one they didn’t use....

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Singapore’s most expensive Facebook link

pubsub.do.nohost.me / Rest of World · Wednesday, 14 April, 2021 - 10:00

On November 7, 2018, Leong Sze Hian, a financial advisor and blogger, shared an article on his Facebook page, without comment. The article, published by Malaysian website The Coverage, alleged...

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Young Burmese activists are broadcasting anti-coup messages on pirate radio

pubsub.do.nohost.me / Rest of World · Tuesday, 13 April, 2021 - 11:05

In a safehouse in Yangon last Thursday morning, a small group of 20-somethings gathered to assemble a portable radio transmitter. For several hours, they broadcast translations of international news into...

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Fighting brain drain and creeping authoritarianism in Russia’s techno-utopian village

pubsub.do.nohost.me / Rest of World · Tuesday, 13 April, 2021 - 08:00

It emerged as a dot on the horizon but soon morphed into a small autonomous vehicle trundling along an icy path lined with piles of gleaming snow. Touched with frost,...

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“We’ve made no progress”: Silicon Valley investors are still ignoring women-led startups

pubsub.do.nohost.me / Rest of World · Monday, 12 April, 2021 - 13:00

Claire Díaz-Ortiz will not be baited. Not that this early Twitter employee, angel investor, and, as of April 2021, venture capitalist founder won’t answer the tough questions, she just won’t...

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Singapore’s government critics are crowdfunding their defamation fines

pubsub.do.nohost.me / Rest of World · Friday, 9 April, 2021 - 15:30

For the last four years, blogger Roy Ngerng has been paying Singapore’s prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, $75 USD (SGD100) a month. In May 2014, Ngerng, who is also an...

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Clubhouse brings the Zimbabwean diaspora closer together

pubsub.do.nohost.me / Rest of World · Friday, 9 April, 2021 - 12:00

Clubhouse turned me into a lurker. An eyes-wide-open and ears-at-attention lurker. I first heard about the app in February 2021, from my Twitter feed. A conversation of note –– about...