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Why Rest of World covers tech news globally

May 10, 2021

Posted by Chris Roush

Anup Kaphle

Anup Kaphle, the executive editor of technology publication Rest of World, writes about why it takes a global perspective.

Kaphle writes, “At Rest of World, we use technology as a lens to push readers out of their usual bubbles. Our stories — whether they’re about a grocery app in Turkey taking on the centuries-old practice of making local deliveries by passing wicker baskets through windows or the black market platform for illegal drugs in Ukraine — consistently show that regions around the world are innovating in ways we can’t imagine. And they’re not looking for permission from Silicon Valley anymore — if they ever were. The sooner we can learn the lessons from each of these stories — the good and the bad — the better prepared we’ll be for the future.

“It’s our mission at Rest of World to be a home for these stories — finding, evaluating, and interrogating the blind spots from Buenos Aires to Bengaluru, from Jeddah to Jakarta, and all across the non-Western world.

“We’ve built a network of tech reporters in countries that traditionally had none. This reporting gap is vast, and dangerous — important tech-driven changes being ignored or represented, like when TikTok failed to proactively start quashing violent and incendiary messages across its platform in Myanmar.”

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