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How India’s increasing online scams are threatening the digital ...
WEBNov 10, 2023 — The launch of the Digital India campaign in 2015 marked the beginning of a digital revolution that has profoundly transformed India's socio-economic environment. From the shift to online classrooms to the widespread adoption of digital transactions for everyday shopping, many Indians now favour the convenience of digital payments. India has also taken the lead in online transactions as per ...
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WEBJun 6, 2018 — 5 Your voice matters! Global Voices (GV) is an international, multilingual, primarily volunteer community of writers, translators, academics, and human rights activists. Together, we leverage the power of the internet to build understanding across borders through our work in the GV Newsroom, Lingua, Rising …
Meet the Filipino Scientist Who Invented the Videophone in 1954
WEBOn March 30, 2016, the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) posted on Facebook a photo from 1954 of Filipino engineer Gregorio Y. Zara demonstrating his latest invention: a two-way television telephone, or videophone, patented as a “photo phone signal separator network.”. The post quickly became popular especially ...
Filipino Workers’ Lives in Paintings by Antipas ‘Biboy’ Delotavo
WEBMay 1, 2015 — Antipas “Biboy” Delotavo is a popular Filipino visual artist who has committed his art to revealing some of the harsh realities experienced by ordinary individuals in Philippine society. Aligned with other social realists who exposed the dark side of the dictatorship in the 1970s, Biboy continues to produce paintings that enlighten the ...
What is red-tagging and why it is dangerous in the Philippines?
WEBApr 27, 2023 — Human rights defenders in the Philippines have cried foul over the restoration of the PHP 10 billion (USD 178.56 million) budget for a government task force known for red-tagging activists and civil society organisations. The bicameral committee has decided to allot the sum in 2023 for the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) despite calls to defund and ...
About Advox - Global Voices Advox
WEBAbout Advox. Advox is a project of Global Voices. We are a global network dedicated to reporting on freedom of expression online and advocating for policies that support a trustworthy, free and open internet for all. We report on threats to online speech, share tactics for defending the work and words of netizens, and support efforts to improve ...
Spain’s official linguistic institution steps back from gender-neutral ...
WEBNov 13, 2020 — The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), a cultural institution dedicated to the linguistic regulation of the Spanish-speaking world, inaugurated the “Observatory of Words” portal on October 27. The portal is a provisional collection of terms and expressions that do not appear in the Spanish Language Dictionary (DLE) but have generated public ...
How ‘African’ is Northern Africa? - Global Voices
WEBMay 28, 2018 — Racism expressed by North Africans toward sub-Saharan Africans, however, does not justify its reverse. And the notion that “black” is the same as “African” is itself rooted in racism. For centuries, the term “Sub-Saharan Africa” has lumped together cultures and nations far more diverse and complex in terms of ethnicity, language ...
Community pantries inspire hope amid pandemic and economic …
WEBMay 5, 2021 — A community-initiated food bank, established to serve the hungry amid the pandemic and its economic fallout, has inspired various mutual aid efforts across the Philippines. More popularly known locally as “community pantries”, these food banks are spaces on the sidewalks or in plazas where people contribute food and other necessities to …