Every month, Global Voices will be choosing an urgent theme to explore in depth across all our regions. This range of perspectives — as always, grounded in our Global Voices values of human and digital rights — will 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 that we gain from looking at the vital issues of today with contributors from across the globe, instead of 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 one of these, you’ll find more than one angle that you hadn’t considered before.

We’re excited to start this 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.

We can only publish as many articles as we can afford. Donate now, and help us share more stories, insights, and analysis with you on this crucial topic!

Donate to our “Human Perspectives on AI” Spotlight issue, and get more of the coverage you value!

Rewards

Each individual donation of $25 or more will receive an eBook copy of the full Spotlight issue once it’s complete.

Stretch goals (cumulative)

$1,000: An additional Undertones column analyzing narrative trends – we have more ideas for fascinating narrative analysis stories than we can produce at our current budget, help us add another one!

$1,500: An additional online panel, bringing together experts, journalists, and analysts to discuss an aspect of the theme!

$3000: A podcast including follow-up interviews with editors and contributors, highlighting some of the most interesting stories in the Spotlight issue)

$10,000: An additional article from each of our regions. Most of our editors have far more article ideas on this topic than they can complete in their paid hours. Help us pay them more, and you get more fantastic insights into [theme]!

$15,000: Surprise! Based on the topic and our learnings from it so far, we’ll choose an add-on that we think will add the most to our understanding of the Spotlight theme.

Any funds that don’t make it to a stretch goal level will still be used to support the Global Voices newsroom!

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