Koo and Parler or Gab are operating under different socio-cultural contexts with differing implications on how users understand and utilise social media.
There is definitely a millennial-disruptor signature in the entire episode that is not exactly “carpe diem” in spirit.
It will be a challenging road ahead to achieve global governance and it will require substantial political will. India can play a leading role.
If this is a moment that will change the Internet, how will that process proceed from here? And for whom will it change?
To regulate entities and aid in better rulemaking, it is important to get the nomenclature right.
Governments are now required to adapt regulation in an agile fashion to ensure the protection of public goods throughout endeavours of economic growth and international collaboration.
A flawed business model that monetises hate and finds it more lucrative to polarise opinions — rather than bridge them — needs to be upended, before resorting to merely deplatforming sources of hate speech.
The decisions social media platforms take about the content and users they host can affect livelihoods, political processes, and major public policy decisions in jurisdictions far removed from the ones they are legally headquartered in. ...
The first step to prepare India to become a global leader in creative industries is an exercise in imagination — picturing what entertainment will look like ten years from now, and thinking of what we need to do to excel at it.
The role of powerful online platforms in the free speech debate is front and centre in the American reckoning. Dipayan Ghosh answers three questions.
There have been clear attempts from both the public and private sectors to change the use of their media outlets from entity-based benefits to public-awareness services.
2020 has seen the rapid uptake of technology in both the formal and informal sectors with many formal employers adapting strategies that have allowed people to work from home.
In the coming years, many will be watching to see whether mobile network operators will manage to retain the 2.8 million new mobile money subscribers with affordable fees.
One thing is for sure, the future of work is digital.
The peculiar technological and corresponding economic features of digital markets have rendered the ‘soft touch’ regulation largely insufficient.
As we enter the new decade, it is critical that nations and communities be able to realise the transformative potential of emerging technologies, in a way that balances short-term growth and long-term consequence. ...
While the geopolitical contestation in emerging technologies will continue, the importance of strengthening policies towards network security cannot be ignored.
Minilateral forums and nontraditional groupings will fill a global policy vacuum, enable deeper, nuanced debates, and help public discourse and debate spread beyond the US, China, and Europe circle.
There is high urgency for new international legislation which would prevent unfriendly actors from using contemporary technologies for psychological wars and suppression of so-called hostile societies through information violence.
Any new framework for non-personal data must consider that data is not just an economic resource to be commodified, neither is it an instrument of sovereign leverage for the state against private players.
Social media is straddling between saving freedoms at one end, and censoring content by restricting access to extremist groups and those who are potentially dangerous for societies at the other end.
The defining aspect of technology and innovation in the 2020s isn’t an algorithm or an invention, it’s a choice.
Perhaps, the most integral step towards inclusivity in the fourth industrial revolution is trust.
The hanging question that needs to be addressed globally would be how to ensure the current competitive discourse on AI optimisation can move forward.
Balfour is director of Carnegie Europe. Her fields of expertise include European politics, institutions, and foreign and security policy. ...
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Rahul Batra is a geopolitical analyst with extensive experience at the intersection of digital platforms and international affairs. ...
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