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To fully leverage our amazing network and enable our readers to explore the full reach of our cross-border, multilingual work, we are launching a new approach to our mission of amplifying the voices of those underrepresented in the digital sphere: Global Voices Spotlight.

In addition to our regular coverage, every month we will be choosing an urgent theme to explore in depth across all our regions. This range of perspectives will be grounded in our Global Voices values of human and digital rights — as always. It will also be complemented by collaborative articles, online panels, and analysis of key narratives using our Civic Media Observatory methodology. Cross-cutting essays will highlight the trends, exceptions, and insights we gain from exploring the vital issues of today with contributors from across the globe, rather than the narrow reporting that focuses on the rich, famous, and available for comment.

With these special, thematic issues, we will bring our readers new understanding, raise the profile of important topics, and illuminate connections across regions, borders, and languages. We’re confident that, in every issue, you’ll find more than one angle that you hadn’t considered before.

We’re excited to start this process with a collection of articles on how the use of, promotion of, and resistance to AI is playing out for the Global Majority, from the way AI is weaponized in elections and conflicts, to the consequences for low-resource languages, to the impacts on human rights, and much more.

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