Current Director of Rising Voices. I have also worked as Regional Editor and Spanish Language Editor for Global Voices, as well as a volunteer author. I have been part of GV since 2005.
Latest posts by Eddie Avila
17 February 2020
#MarginalizedAadhaar: Is India's Aadhaar enabling more exclusion in social welfare for marginalized communities?
India's biometric-based digital ID Aadhaar seems to bring more exclusion to marginalized communities rather than solving it.
30 January 2020
CGNet Swara is using Bluetooth to source content and share news with Indian villages
CGNet Swara is helping groups that have been largely ignored by mainstream media use Bluetooth to create content and share CGNet-produced news, music and other programmes with their communities.
2 December 2019
Exclusion in access to public information for marginalized groups in India
Subhashish Panigrahi highlights the challenges and opportunities relating to access to public information for marginalized groups in India.
27 November 2019
The Indian state of Odisha publishes online dictionaries in 21 indigenous languages
India is home to over 780 languages and approximately 220-250 languages have died over the last 50 years.
26 November 2019
Museums of the mind: Why we should preserve endangered languages
Sustaining endangered languages involves transforming how speakers are perceived in their communities, how languages are portrayed in the local and national media, and how the matter is treated by governments.
24 November 2019
Quichua, a language that sets us free
"Quichua was for me a language with which I cohabited, but I didn’t really know."
The struggle of the Bolivian feminist chola is now online
Yolanda Mamani, a feminist chola who started fighting for her rights as a child domestic worker, now take her talkative style to her radio show, blog and YouTube channel.
22 November 2019
Interview with Erick Huerta, a researcher helping to bring internet access to indigenous communities in Mexico
A project to build and strengthen the communication and technological autonomy of indigenous peoples and communities.
15 September 2019
Filipino community radio stations struggle to survive amid attacks and difficulties
"If the marginalized are underserved by the mass media establishment, they must be allowed to be their own voice."
6 September 2019
Unified under one font system as Myanmar prepares to migrate from Zawgyi to Unicode
Myanmar hopes to complete its migration from its use of Zawgyi font to the adoption of a unified system of fonts that conform to the international standard called Unicode.
15 August 2019
Tech innovators in Tanzania connect 5,000 tutors with students in new online platform
Smartclass, a new online platform that connects tutors to students of all ages, is changing the learning environment in Tanzania.
25 May 2019
“If big tech companies won’t solve the problem for us, then we can do it ourselves.”
My 92 year old grandfather, like Nigerians of his generation, can read and write in Yorùbá. But since they are not 'literate' in English, they are digitally excluded.
23 April 2019
Meet Adebayo Adegbembo, the host of the @DigiAfricanLang Twitter account for April 24-30
Learn more about Adebayo Adegbemb, the host of @DigiAfricanLang Twitter account during April 24-30, 2019. He'll be sharing his perspectives on the Yoruba language in a social media campaign focusing...
