Digital rights: Iran steps up internet crackdown one year after Mahsa Amini death
SANAM MAHOOZI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that one year after nationwide protests erupted in Iran, people suffer rolling internet blackouts, but create an online freedom community to fight for digital rights…
Third culture kids: How the internet is changing the way missionary families engage with education
DAVID ADAMS reports…
Senegal government cuts mobile internet access amid deadly rioting
Dakar, SenegalReuters Senegal’s government has cut access to mobile internet services in certain areas because of deadly rioting in which “hateful and subversive” messages have been posted online, it said in a statement on Sunday. The West African country has been rocked by three days of violent protests in which 16 people have died, one […]
“Group weirdness”
In any group, most people are pretty conventional. They fit in the 80 per cent of the standard bell curve. PICTURE: Toa Heftiba/Unsplash Then you have the artisans, the alternatives, the out-of-the-box thinkers. Groups need these unconventional people to ensure we don’t succumb to group-think. This is a profound design of God. We need people […]
Sight Helpdesk: What is ChatGPT?
ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence text generator, is being hailed as the future of work, but not everyone is convinced. ADAM SMITH, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Lebanon in crisis: Emergency numbers and suicide hotlines falter
TALA RAMADAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the impacts of Lebanon’s ongoing economic crisis with people there now at risk losing access to two more essentials – their mobile phones and the internet…
Essay: The Metaverse – a danger to children and probably you too
MAL FLETCHER argues that, for young people, the metaverse will create real dangers – in the form of sexual abuse, financial scams and harmful social interactions…
Sight Helpdesk: Older Americans are given the wrong idea about online safety – here’s how to help them help themselves
Information technology researchers NORA MCDONALD and HELENA M MENTIS, explore – in an article published on The Conversation, what tools older people can use to maintain online safety…
Sight Helpdesk: Four reasons your fibre internet could be slow – and five tips to speed it up
In an article published on The Conversation, OMPRAKASH KAIWARTYA and MUFTI MAHMUD, of Nottingham Trent University, look at, with some specific reference to the UK context, what could be slowing your internet speed…
Calls for new laws as tech fuels “explosion” of online sex abuse
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation As a schoolgirl, Sarah Cooper became close to an online buddy called “J”, bonding over a love of pop singers like Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj, and confiding about problems at home. Some two years later he sold her into sexual slavery. Cooper, from the US city of Boston, told how […]