A libertarian ‘startup city’ in Honduras faces its biggest hurdle: the ...
WEBOct 5, 2021 · Roatán. The island of Roatán is approximately 65 kilometres off the northern coast of Honduras. O ne Friday evening last September, a squad of police officers arrived in Crawfish Rock, a secluded fishing village on the Caribbean island of Roatán, where homes of weather-worn clapboard painted pastel hues perch atop cement pilings.
TikTok is repeating Facebook’s mistakes in Myanmar
WEBA video posted to TikTok on March 3rd threatening to shoot protesters. Now, members of Myanmar’s digital-rights community say that TikTok, a social media platform valued at $50 billion, is repeating these mistakes. These individuals described the company to Rest of World as a “black hole” that had not made inroads with civil society nor hired enough Burmese-speaking experts to enable it ...
Data leaked by Anonymous hacktivists has put Sri Lankans at risk …
WEBMay 10, 2022 · Leaked data by the hacker collective has put regular Sri Lankans at severe risk of cybercrime. As massive protests against Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa entered their eighth week, last month the hacktivist collective Anonymous stepped up to show support — in ways that have left cybersecurity experts and the general public alarmed ...
Who is Harsha Sai? Meet India’s MrBeast - Rest of World
WEBMar 21, 2023 · Harsha Sai is India’s most popular stunt philanthropist — a YouTube genre where generous acts of kindness are turned into spectacles garnering millions in views and ad revenue. Originally pioneered by MrBeast in the U.S., the model has been localized by Sai. But the economics of running a MrBeast-style channel in India are harder due to low ...
The Nigerian fintech boom, by the numbers - Rest of World
WEBSep 23, 2021 · The total has risen sharply, from 223 billion naira ($541.7 million) in 2016 to 1.4 trillion ($3.4 billion) in 2020. Abubakar Idris was a Rest of World reporter based in Lagos, Nigeria. Understand the country’s booming fintech sector with five key stats.
Nigeria’s filmmakers turn to YouTube for distribution - Rest of World
WEBDec 11, 2023 · Another popular Nigerian filmmaker, Seun Oloketuyi, decided to start releasing his movies on YouTube in 2022, after battling piracy for years. “All it takes is just one person going to the market to buy one copy of the CD and send it to the U.K. and the U.S.,” he told Rest of World. “The person in these countries makes multiple copies and ...
Why Amazon really built a new warehouse on the U.S.-Mexico …
WEBSep 10, 2021 · Stark photos of a new Amazon warehouse in Tijuana standing directly beside a dilapidated housing development with dirt roads have gone viral over the last few days. The pictures, taken by photographer Omar Martínez, depict Amazon’s signature arrow logo towering over makeshift homes made out of tarps and scrapwood — to many, a dystopian symbol of modern inequality.
SafeBoda, Easy Matatu are changing Uganda’s transit - Rest of World
WEBAug 2, 2022 · Uganda had put in place one of the continent’s toughest pandemic lockdowns, which lasted nearly two years. More importantly, the rules were stringently applied to prevent boda bodas from carrying passengers. “The economy was already struggling before Covid-19 and then it got a lot worse,” said Michael Wilkerson, founder of …
These vending machines sell internet access five minutes at a time
WEBJan 17, 2022 · The sound of clinking coins fills a narrow alley in Metro Manila. In the backstreets of Pasig City, children stream in and out of a corner shop, noisily exchanging bills for pesos before stampeding next door to a row of mini-internet vending machines: pisonets. “Pisonets are necessities,” said Madeleine Casim …
How a brand new Mexican digital outlet became President López …
WEBApr 27, 2021 · I t was December 2019 when Carlos Loret de Mola got on a plane bound for New York City. Four months earlier, the Mexican journalist had quit his job as a prime-time news anchor on Televisa, Mexico’s TV hegemon. Lacking the support but also freed from the constraints of a traditional outlet like Televisa, where he had been for fifteen years, Loret de Mola suddenly was on the brink of the unknown.