‘Digital colonialism’: Why some countries want to take back control over their citizens’ data

Data localisation would force Big tech companies into becoming permanent entities on home soil and eventually paying home countries hefty taxes.

Jacqueline Hicks, The Conversation

· Oct 02, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Sri Lanka attacks: Research shows that cutting off social media doesn’t curb violence but fuels it

Internet blackouts deprive people of impartial information and crucial connections with loved ones, without delivering improved safety or stability.

Jan Rydzak, The Conversation

· May 02, 2019 · 09:30 pm

Cuba to allow citizens full internet access on mobile phones from Thursday

Cubans have one of the lowest rates of internet use in the world. Until now, citizens have had access only to state-run email accounts on their phones.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 05, 2018 · 01:12 pm

Steep prices are preventing internet access from spreading around the world

Half of the world should have had internet access by now.

Andy Extance

· Nov 10, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Villagers in Britain are building community broadband networks that rival speeds of big providers

Successive British governments have promised to roll out broadband coverage, but target dates have been pushed back. Villages have now taken it up on their own.

Lee Mannion, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Sep 03, 2018 · 08:30 pm

Africa’s offline gender gap is getting replicated online

Despite this, $400 million collected to close Africa’s digital divide is unspent.

Nanjira Sambuli

· May 17, 2018 · 09:30 pm

India's Internet shutdown: Most states block services without following Centre’s new rules

Six states issued termination orders following law and order crises in the past fortnight, but only two followed the 2017 rules.

Arunabh Saikia

· Apr 07, 2018 · 09:00 am

Average 4G speed poorest in India, shows OpenSignal report

This was despite the fact that the country has 86.26% 4G availability.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 22, 2018 · 04:05 pm

Social media shutdowns offset increased access to internet in India in 2017, finds report

Human rights group Freedom House found that more countries are now following Russia and China’s example of suppressing online dissent.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 15, 2017 · 12:39 pm

India’s pushing big to roll out 5G, but the process is unlikely to go at top speed

A massive corpus has been created to introduce the technology by 2020, but experts say it’s unlikely to come in any time soon.

Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com

· Oct 27, 2017 · 08:30 pm

India tops list of 19 countries worst affected by internet shutdowns

The country had 22 internet outages in 2015-'16, the same as Iraq, according to a study.

Devanik Saha, IndiaSpend.com

· Oct 27, 2016 · 05:30 am

India's GDP could be $1 trillion more by 2020 if all citizens go online

But even for 80% of the population to be able to afford internet access, data costs would have to fall by 66%, according to a Facebook-commissioned report.

Tanay Sukumar, IndiaSpend.com

· May 31, 2016 · 09:30 pm