Andrew Blum and Carey Baraka, Rest of World, Sea Change, 12 May 2022 "Google and Meta’s new subsea cables mark a tectonic shift in how the internet works, and who controls it."

Antara News, Preparing Indonesians to be fully digitally literate

" World Bank data shows that Indonesia is experiencing a digital talent gap as the nation needs at least 9 million digital talents in 15 years, or an average of 600 thousand ...

The National, Google unveils $1.3m digital skills fund for Mena non-profits "The funds will be used to reach out to people from diverse backgrounds in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and the UAE."

AFP/Arab News, More than third of world has never used Internet: UN

"Some 2.9 billion people — 37 percent of the world’s population — have still never used the Internet, the United Nations said Tuesday, despite the Covid-19 pandemic driving people online."

Salaam Gateway, Africa lags in Digitalisation of Everything opinion

Safina Nabi, Vice, This Band Thought Their Biggest Hurdle Was the Patriarchy. It’s Actually the Internet. "As soon as Yousuf was introduced to the basics of Sufiyana Mausiqi by her father, she knew she wanted to keep the dying art form alive by connecting ...

Meaghan Tobin, Adi Renaldi and Jihan Basyah, Rest of World, Indonesia’s tech giants are battling to bring roadside stalls online

"“This is the first time that the mom-and-pop retailer, the small store (warungs), actually has a smartphone in their hand,” Ula’s ...

Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, The battle for control of Afghanistan’s internet, 7 Sep 2021 "“The internet is a microcosm of all these questions about what is the future of Afghanistan,” says Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at Kentik, a network observability ...

Arab News, Saudi Arabia is biggest 5G adopter in the Gulf, report shows

"Ookla, an Internet intelligence firm, revealed that the Kingdom had the most number of devices connected to 5G since its commercial release in 2019."

Sky News, Facebook and Google plan new undersea cables to connect southeast Asia and America

"The cables, named Echo and Bifrost, will be the first to directly connect North America to some of the main parts ...

Al Jazeera, Indonesia: Lessons from the online classroom "Jakarta-based newspaper journalist Agnes Theodora, 29, who together with 12 other reporters, has given more than 400 used smartphones and data packages from donors to hundreds ...