World Wide Web or webs of intrigue?

World Wide Web or webs of intrigue?

In its 2019 report, the Internet Society asks whether the Internet economy is consolidating and, if it is, what the implications might be. The independently-run Internet Society promotes the development of the Internet as a global technical infrastructure, a resource...
Support for local media

Support for local media

Subscribers to The Guardian in the UK recently received a message of appreciation from the Editor-in-Chief, Katherine Viner. She announced that after a three-year “turnaround” strategy the newspaper had hit its goal of breaking even – making a small profit that has...
Seeing and hearing people who matter

Seeing and hearing people who matter

It is more and more evident that communication and information issues are intrinsically connected to questions of sustainable development and human dignity. In “Want Social Change? Give Communities More Agency” (IPS, 3 May 2019) Ashif Shaikh writes that in India no...