The technology being used to identify and punish protestors at recent anti-government rallies were pushed by historic tech trade links between the US and India

Data centres have existed since the 1990s so what is it about the new hyperscalers that is generating so many anxieties around livelihood, land rights and sustainability? We bring you an explainer

We spoke to researchers and practitioners across Bangladesh, India, and Bhutan to understand the promises and fallacies of linguistic diversity in AI, and the way ahead

India’s flagship maternity programme now banks on a robust digital chain, efficient apps and stable internet – none of which can be assumed in many Adivasi areas in Andhra Pradesh

Activists Joan Kinyua and Michael Geoffrey Asia about mental health and PTSD, unionising challenges in Kenya, and the racial logic that sustains the modern tech economy

In colonial data factories, the knowledge of women and young people is being systematically devalued and aspirations never allowed to scale

The dispersed nature of their work, opaque AI supply chains and deficient policy have invisibilised millions of digital gig workers in India

As beneficiaries become data points on the dashboard, Anganwadi workers in Tamil Nadu grapple with an overload of digital labor, being data collectors building a state’s health repository, and being subjects of surveillance

Anganwadi workers says their role has gone from deliverers of schemes to being data collectors for the government