Asia ‘Digital colonialism’: why some countries want to take control of their people’s data from Big Tech October 28, 2019 0 Image credit: photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Written by Jacqueline Hicks There is a global standoff going on about who stores your data. At the close…
Activism Polarising Dissent: The constructed narrative of Singapore’s new ‘fake news’ law June 10, 2019 0 Written by Howard Lee and Terence Lee. Image Credit: singapore by Matt Madd/Flickr, Licence CC BY 2.0. On 8 May 2019, Singapore passed its fake news legislation.…
Cambodia Southeast Asia – drifting towards Digital Authoritarianism? March 15, 2019 0 Written by Jason Abbott. In the West, the principal concern of most digital activists relates to privacy issues surrounding the collection of data by governments…
Civil society Indonesia’s quest for tolerance: Everyday social media talk and spreading the ‘virus of peace’ March 14, 2019 0 Written by Dayana Lengauer. Tolerance in majority Muslim Indonesia is associated, among other things, with the national motto ‘unity in diversity’, state-recognised religious pluralism, and…
Activism Are social media destroying democracy in Southeast Asia? March 14, 2019 0 Written by Ross Tapsell. Recent literature has argued that social media use encourages authoritarianism. Ronald J. Deibert’s January 2019 article in Journal of Democracy argues…
Business Sanitising and scrutinising social media in Singapore – fake news or just politics? March 13, 2019 2 Written by Howard Lee and Terence Lee. Singapore seems ready to add another feather to its cap as the ‘hub capital’ of ASEAN after Facebook…
China Google’s China Problem September 7, 2018 1 Written by Min Jiang. Without virtue, the most complete collection of talents is worthless. – Chinese Proverb 2018: #Dragonfly Dragonfly is the code name for…
China The Chinese Cyber Sovereignty Concept (Part 2) September 7, 2018 0 Written by Niels Nagelhus Schia and Lars Gjesvik. This continues from part 1. International responses to China’s use of the concept of cyber sovereignty. The…
China The Chinese Cyber Sovereignty Concept (Part 1) September 7, 2018 1 Written by Niels Nagelhus Schia and Lars Gjesvik. Cyber sovereignty is a distinct concept from the more familiar term cybersecurity, which concerns protecting the infrastructure…
China Tech Giants’ Agenda Is at Odds with CCP Priorities September 6, 2018 0 Written by Severine Arsene. The digital may seem like a solution to all the problems of the Chinese government. By digitizing all sectors of the…
