Digital inclusion is about more than internet access. It is also about communities creating, sharing and sustaining media on their own terms.
📖 Read the story: https://www.apc.org/en/news/community-interest-medias-contribution-digital-inclusion-learning-experience
📄 Read the pulication: https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/community-interest-media-emerging-concepts-and-practices-global-majority-and-friends
From community radio & podcasts to community networks, the publication explores practices from across the Global Majority that strengthen meaningful connectivity through local knowledge, participation & agency.
"On their own terms" is the whole fight. Community radio has held that line for decades — a station owned by the people who make it. Now the tools are turning synthetic, and the question stays the same: do you own the thing, or rent it from a box you can't open?