Have you experienced an Internet blackout? Such incidence might occur when a city is hit by natural disaster or facing cyberattack. The outage of Internet service experienced by the people of Myanmar recently did not happen because of any such reasons above however, but about politics.

In this episode, Edmon Chung, the CEO of DotAsia Organisation, and Angela Arkandhi, NetMission ambassador — a university student from Indonesia who is passionate about Internet governance and digital policy — are going to explore how the Internet shutdown refrains us from exercising our rights. What are the compromises between tackling the dissemination of false information and ensuring freedom of speech online? Is Internet shutdown not an open-air prison for those who are experiencing it?

Billions of people connect to the Internet for solely to connect be on social media nowadays. In many aspects, social media has become one of the most important tools to keep us engaged and connected, especially during COVID.

This episode, we explore three areas that young people are most concerned about during the pandemic — education, career, and future., What can we learn from the pandemic and how can we do better once we return to the new normal.