by Saskia Rowley | Oct 19, 2026 | Comment, Communication Rights
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....
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 24, 2026 | Comment
The impact of data centres on the environment concerns everyone. Data centres consume massive amounts of electricity – often placing considerable strain on local power grids. Data centres generate significant heat and electronic waste, and millions of gallons of water...
by Saskia Rowley | Aug 10, 2026 | Climate Justice, Comment, Communication Rights
Meteorologists expect the El Niño now building in the Pacific Ocean to be the strongest on record, peaking between September and December. This recurring warming of surface ocean waters occurs irregularly every two to seven years, temporarily raising global...
by Saskia Rowley | Jun 29, 2026 | Comment
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...
by Saskia Rowley | May 18, 2026 | Comment, Digital Justice
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:...
