Look back at 2024 through some of our biggest stories, from the rise of WhatsApp vigilantes in India to the struggles of gig workers around the globe.

The global struggle over how to regulate AI > Big AI companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI and Amazon, have come out hard against comprehensive regulatory efforts in the West — but are receiving a warm welcome from leaders in many other countries.

President-elect Donald Trump pledges to escalate the trade war, but non-Western nations have targeted China with tariffs, too.

Jan 14, 2025 · Innovation. The billion-dollar ideas built outside the West amid political instability, economic uncertainty, and inconsistent systems — and what success and failure costs

Sep 30, 2024 · Technology has transformed how we spend, study, live, eat — even how we sleep. And for the 6.75 billion people around the world who consider themselves religious, technology is also changing their faith.

Dec 11, 2024 · Before the fall of 2023, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees relied on phone calls, emails, and in-person meetings to communicate with its staff in Gaza, UNRWA director of communications Juliette Touma told Rest of World.Then, on October 7 that year, Hamas attacked Israel, killing around 1,200 people. Israel responded with a massive and ongoing military campaign ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Tech Giants. The efforts of U.S. tech heavyweights to grow their businesses outside the West, and how they’re winning, losing, and ignoring consequences in emerging markets

Apr 23, 2024 · Rest of World is an award-winning nonprofit publication that focuses on how tech is transforming the daily lives of billions of people across emerging markets. Our reporting spotlights communities and countries that have long been dismissed and underestimated by mainstream Western media. Over 4 billion of the world’s 5 billion internet users live in non-Western countries.

Dec 10, 2024 · In Bangladesh, matchmaking is so popular on the platform that some have nicknamed it “Halal Hinge.”In India, WhatsApp has 400 million monthly active users; a 2022 study by the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford showed that more than half the population trusted WhatsApp as a news source. In Nigeria, WhatsApp TV broadcasts entertainment, cooking, and sports to people directly from ...

Mission. Rest of World is a nonprofit publication that challenges expectations about whose experiences with technology matter.We connect the dots across a rapidly evolving digital world, through on-the-ground reporting in places typically overlooked and underestimated.