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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 ...
Twitter Space: What’s next for the Aragalaya movement in Sri Lanka?
WEBDec 18, 2022 · Global Voices launched a Twitter Space on Thursday, August 4, to discuss the political unrest in Sri Lanka from March to July 2022, the nation's economic crisis, and the pro-democracy Aragalaya movement.. Find part one of the recording here and part two here.. The Twitter Space was moderated by Global Voices’ South Asia Editor Rezwan from Dhaka, Bangladesh and assisted by GV’s Associate ...
Yugoslavia wasn’t a Soviet ally—so why does that misconception …
WEBOct 26, 2019 · As part of its balancing act between the blocs, Yugoslavia was one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961. Unlike East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria, it was on the western side of the Iron Curtain, the so-called line dividing the Soviet-dominated zone from the rest of Europe.. The incorrect assertion that equates Yugoslavia with the Soviet Union has popped ...
Welcome to Global Voices! · Global Voices Community Blog
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 …
Philippines: “Jejemon” Translator and the Global Voices Manifesto
WEBAug 13, 2010 · Let’s try the Jejemon Translator. Usually, Filipino words are used in the Jejemon translation tool but let’s be different today and use the English language. Let us ‘jejemonize’ the Global Voices Manifesto. We believe in free speech: in protecting the right to speak — and the right to listen. We believe in universal access to the ...
What Role Did Brazilian Mainstream Media Play in the Murder of a ...
WEBMar 30, 2017 · If you ask any Brazilian about “Eloá’s hostage crisis”, they will probably know what you're are talking about.For a whole week in October 2008, the entire country watched on live television the kidnap and murder of 15-year-old Eloá Cristina, who was held hostage and later killed by her ex-boyfriend Lindemberg Alves, who was 22 at the time.
Argentina’s census to include questions on gender identity and ...
WEBMay 4, 2022 · Image created by Global Voices with Canva. For the first time, Argentina's upcoming census will ask questions on gender and ethnic identity. LGBTIQ+, Indigenous, and Afro-Argentine communities have celebrated the news as a landmark moment in terms of their recognition by the State and society. Under the slogan #Reconocernos (“Acknowledging ...
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 ...
What did the outside world in the 1930s know about the Soviet …
WEBDec 16, 2022 · Many Ukrainians marked the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor by sharing the memories passed on by their families about the experience of the man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. That got me wondering how informed the world at large was about it at the time. The Holodomor, a term that can be translated as “mass murder by hunger,” was part ...