COMMENT BLOG
A remark, a critique, an opinion…
Public memory, voice and visibility
People have been silenced and made invisible for centuries. In Milan Kundera’s novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979), the character Mirek observes, “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history....
Restoring trust in the global order starts with communication for all
What ails multilateralism today? A common thread is communication injustice.
The solution to everything?
A free press may not be the solution to everything for a just, sustainable planet, but it is an essential ingredient.
From the bottom up: Rethinking climate communication
We need a new approach to climate communication – a bottom-up perspective that sees communication as a right.
Data centres, rare earth minerals, and complacency
Data centers are here to stay. We may not be. There is still time – maybe – to act wisely.
El Niño and the fight over what it means
El Niño is already sharpening climate disinformation. The time is now to invest in community media. It is climate action.
The beautiful game in a connected world
Due to online misinformation, the lenses through which the beautiful game is viewed are layered with factors that have nothing to do with purely football.
3 conferences, 3 contrasts: Where does digital justice go from here?
Which UN forum for digital governance will have real impact? All of us must take action for digital justice to ensure questions are raised and local voices are heard.
Language loss and AI
Will Artificial Intelligence (AI) help or hinder the survival of minority languages into the next century? According to Ethnologue, a database of the world’s 7,168 living languages, almost half are endangered. Over 88 million people speak a language that may not...
Reclaiming the beautiful game – and communication – for the common good
The FIFA World Cup has kicked off across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. This year’s tournament is the largest edition in history, with 48 teams, 104 matches, and billions of people watching. For over a month, people around the world will be glued to their...
AI everything – Except humanity
“The pervasive technocratic paradigm in which we are immersed, and that is amplified by the digital revolution and AI, threatens to normalize an anti-human vision. In that vision, the fullness of life is equated with having more, reducing weakness, eliminating...
Digital justice – the good news
I seem to spend a lot of my working days reading, writing, and speaking about the harms and risks of our increasing digitalization, especially artificial intelligence. Granted, this all gets channelled into plans and actions to address harms and strengthen benefits:...
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