by Saskia Rowley | Jul 8, 2019 | Communication Rights
Accessibility and affordability are watchwords of the communication rights movement. Yet when it comes to digital access, governments have still not got their act together. The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) says that Africans face the highest cost to connect...
by Saskia Rowley | Jul 1, 2019 | Communication Rights
Article 19 – the international freedom of expression organization – has proposed creating Social Media Councils (SMCs) as a way of moderating content on social media based on a “multi-stakeholder accountability mechanism”. Article 19 argues: “In today’s world,...
by Saskia Rowley | Jun 24, 2019 | Communication Rights
San Francisco protest, February 2019. Photo: Sheila Fitzgerald/Shutterstock “Elected leaders in many democracies, who should be press freedom’s staunchest defenders, have made explicit attempts to silence critical media voices and strengthen outlets that serve...
by Saskia Rowley | Jun 17, 2019 | Communication Rights
Saeed Alnahhal explains how he has recently had an article published in a major Swedish newspaper, featuring refugees who’ve received support through the Goda Grannar project. Saeed himself came to Sweden as a refugee from Syria, and has received support through...
by Saskia Rowley | Jun 10, 2019 | Communication Rights
Every ten years or so the BBC comes in for criticism for being too partial or too impartial. Most recently The Observer newspaper ran an article titled “Is BBC news broken? And if so, how do we fix it?” (26 May 2019). Recalling earlier politically motivated attacks –...
by Saskia Rowley | Jun 3, 2019 | Communication Rights
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...
