Global Internet Governance & Democracy

Internet governance (IG) is the need to make sure that every part can work together in the digital space. Since the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) had lasting effects in building peace of global governance and upheld a crucial step in the development of tolerance and secularization across world politics. However, in the digital world inContinueContinue reading “Global Internet Governance & Democracy”

The rights agenda to self-determination – Counterproductive Western imposition to Third World nations

Commentary: The ‘rights agenda’ is a Western imposition and counterproductive to self-determination for most developing countries. The place of ‘rights’ in fostering development, including for those are most disadvantaged, either groups or individuals; particularly in developing countries and communities. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs The world of development has never become more delighted than this eraContinueContinue reading “The rights agenda to self-determination – Counterproductive Western imposition to Third World nations”

Social media magnified political polarization in the U.S

Divided democracy in the age of the Internet perhaps is a fact. Platforms such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon are the “Big Five” who are controlling people’s data across the world. Behind them, behind the politicians in relation with the people, what unites us all to look to a prosperous future for humanContinueContinue reading “Social media magnified political polarization in the U.S”

“War on Crime” was and is part of “the new Jim Crow”

There is really no understanding of the American political culture without race at the centre of it. Whether or not the definition of slavery is vanished out of our modern life, a variety of political transitions and reforms, it makes us question at the contemporary politics of race happening in the US. Have some fraudulentContinueContinue reading ““War on Crime” was and is part of “the new Jim Crow””

Trumpism – the political culmination of 60 years’ U.S Republican Party

… as a discussion The election of the 45th United States President in 2016 – Donald J. Trump and his best-known motto “Make America Great Again”, along with outright stricter standards on immigration policies during his candidacy in 2015. This is an inciting political tension, which sweeps the values of hundred years building the nationContinueContinue reading “Trumpism – the political culmination of 60 years’ U.S Republican Party”

Machine Learning & Facebook’s Newsfeed Algorithms: Be Caution!

MACHINE LEARNING YOU are about to give the computer a goal to build it. Why? Because it helps you to use it easier. In another word, you request a computer to work out an outcome for you. And then, the computer itself will learn how to code it, set it into an algorithm and bringContinueContinue reading “Machine Learning & Facebook’s Newsfeed Algorithms: Be Caution!”