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Areej Akhtar for GenderIT.org

Mirror, mirror on the phone: How social media beauty filters impact South Asian women

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EngageMedia guest writer

Risking health for mobility? Limitations of Indonesia’s pandemic management tool

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Anonymous

For queer people in Pakistan, pride flags on social media may be doing more harm than good

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Community Networks Schools and Mamaila Community Network win award for participatory design of information and communications technologies

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Leila Nachawati Rego

APC at the 2022 Asia Pacific Regional IGF: Promoting a community-led internet

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Local Access: Can community networks help people to harness the power of digital tools?

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Vaishnavi and Anish Mishra

How the economically marginalised navigate digital adoption in India amid the pandemic

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Trang Le

Vietnam’s Zalo Connect: Digital authoritarianism in peer-to-peer aid platforms

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Shruti Arora for GenderIT.org

Digital technologies in the abortion rights movement

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Harindrini Corea

In Sri Lanka, state-sponsored disinformation and suppression of dissent taint COVID-19 response

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Siti Rochmah Desyana

PeduliLindungi: To care for and protect?

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Shafali Jain

A case for community networks

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APCNews

Local Access: Women cultivating community networks

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Hija Kamran for GenderIT.org

The case of selective morality, sexist laws and online censorship in Pakistan

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Sarbani Banerjee Belur and Saisudha Sugavanam

An indignant and idealistic young radio jockey in India empowers herself and others through community radio

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Andrew Lowenthal

EngageMedia: Introducing the "Pandemic of Control" series