Digital Trade: Power, Rules, and the Future We Want
We are in a critical window. The WTO’s long-running e-commerce moratorium (which prevents customs duties on electronic transmissions) was extended onl...
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Sri Lanka's Digital ID Gamble: Building Trust in the Age of Digital Public Infrastructure
Digitising the economy is the right ambition, coming at the right time. Anyone who has stood in a queue for a basic service knows how much there is to...
Disrupting Sri Lanka’s Legal Practice: A conversation with Paralegal founder Elijah Hoole
Going to courts is a tedious option for many Sri Lankans. With a backlog of over one million cases, delays and challenges are rampant at every step in...
AI and Mental Health Care: Attempts at ethical innovation being forced to compete with entertainment chatbots
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is creating new realities for diverse industries, from IT to media to education and health. Chatbots – both specialised a...
Privacy or development: A trade-off in the modern world
“If something has the capacity to surveil and control, it will surveil and control,” says Renata Avila, the Chief Executive Officer of the Open Knowle...
Real World Impacts Of Online Hate Speech On Marginalised Communities Across South Asia
Webinar Summary The ‘Speaking Back: Countering Hate Speech Through Regional Research and Solidarity’ webinar, organised by the Digital Accountability ...
Putting People First in Sri Lanka's Digital Public Infrastructure Push
As Sri Lanka accelerates its efforts to build a digital economy, a quiet transformation is underway—one that could reshape how the state identifies, m...
The Free Speech Xperiment
In January 2025, the European Union demanded to see internal documentation about X’s “recommender system”, which makes content suggestions to users. T...
A Sophie's Choice: Regulating Social Media in Southeast Asia
Social media might feel like an endless stream of dance videos and conspiracy theories, but in Southeast Asia, it’s also at the heart of commerce, edu...
Move Fast – The AI Action Summit
The recent AI Action Summit in Paris over 10th and 11th of February 2025 didn’t deliver what those who advocated for guardrails and better regulations...
Modi 3.0 and Digital India: Past, Present, Future
From Aadhaar and UPI to AI-driven governance, digital technology has been at the heart of India’s transformation under Modi. Over the last decade, pol...