Tech Writing

Coda Story

China’s Digital Wall Around Tibet

May 2019

Tourism from China provokes an Internet crackdown in Thailand

March 2019

OneZero

How to Break Free of Amazon During Quarantine and Beyond

May 2020

My Year Without Google

Sept 2019

WhatsApp Won’t Save Facebook

Mar 2019

There Is Literally No Excuse to Keep Using Facebook

Sept 2018

Pressland

Big Tech’s Next Challenge: Powerful State Media Networks

Oct 2019

How Indonesia Beat the Misinformation Scourge (For Now)

June 2019

Engadget

China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants

Feb 2018

The missing trade war against China’s digital protectionism

Sept 2017

Technology is failing to create transparent supply chains

July 2017

The high-tech war on Tibetan communication

June 2017

Shareable

How the ICDE is working to advance platform cooperativism: Q&A with Trebor Scholz

Aug 2019

How nonprofits are organizing tech workers for social change

July 2018

Bringing platform cooperatives to Japan: Q&A with Mathias Sager

July 2018

Moeda: The Cooperative Cryptocurrency That Aims to Advance Financial Inclusion

Dec 2017

Meet g0v, the Open-source, Digital Community Transforming Democracy in Taiwan

May 2017

How a Cooperative in Indonesia is Bridging the Digital Divide

Apr 2017

Q&A: LibreTaxi's Roman Pushkin on Why He Made a Free, Open-Source Alternative to Uber and Lyft

Mar 2017

Five (More) Reasons to #DeleteUber — And Some Ethical Alternatives

Feb 2017

The Daily Dot

The slow creep of internet shutdowns

Mar 2018

Why hasn’t there been a new Couchsurfing?

Oct 2017

The slow creep and chilling effect of China's censorship

Aug 2016

Can satellites help save the world’s rainforests?

Apr 2016

Can we build a humane alternative to Uber?

Feb 2016

Why your favorite apps are designed to addict you

Jan 2016

The story behind the Indian Ocean tsunami warning system

Dec 2015

Why Facebook’s Internet.org faces backlash in India

May 2015

Mobilisation Lab

Changing global fishing: How pet lovers helped take on Thai Union

Mar 2018

Video campaigning: Empowering the right people in a world of infinite video

June 2018

Localising a global campaign: Divestment in Japan

May 2017

Organising a people’s movement to #BuyTwitter

Jan 2017

Mapping an end to fires in Indonesia with Kepo Hutan

May 2016

An open (and open source) campaign takes on Facebook

March 2016

Blooming digital democracy in Taiwan’s Sunflower movement

Jan 2016

Creating global impact with digital storytelling

Oct 2015

Triple Pundit

Facebook Chooses Governments and Profits Over Users’ Freedom and Information

Aug 2016

Amazon: No. 1 for Counterfeits, Cardboard Waste and More

July 2016

Uber’s Unethical Astro-Turfing: A Sign of Things to Come?

Aug 2015

The First Domino Falls in the Gig Economy: HomeJoy Shuts Down

July 2015

SciDev.net

Success of ASEAN integration hinges on interconnectivity

April 2015

Fallout from NSA surveillance hits media freedom in Asia

December 2013

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