April 25, 2022/ The Economist : Accelerating progress: Bridging the gap between investment and technological advancement
Jan 25, 2022/ WeContent: “If you’re not looking at the global south, you are putting your business at high risk”
Nov 20, 2021/ Times of India: Girls online have hacks against patriarchal wall
Nov 8, 2021/ Global Dev Blog: Will e-commerce revive Bangladesh’s artisanal economy?
Oct 24, 2021/ D+C Development & Cooperation: “The vast majority does not get any kind of sex education”
June 8, 2021/ VICE World News: This Harry Styles-Inspired Couple Is Going Viral For Exchanging Clothes and Kisses
June 3, 2021/ YourStory Interview: How creative design strategies help sustainability and inclusion
Mar 11, 2021/ Mashable Interview: What to expect when you’re expecting 8 billion internet users
Mar 5, 2021/ Rest of World Op Ed: AI isn’t going to save us: The AI solutions championed by tech titans promise to repeat a toxic history of self-defined goodness.
Mar 3, 2021/ Interview with Corporate Insights
Feb 5, 2021/ NRC Interview ‘Review: Caste: The lies that divide Us’
Feb 4, 2021/ MASHING UP Interview ‘Design of a fair society’
Feb 4, 2021/ CocoColor Japan Interview: ‘Diversity is beautiful. | Expanding World Internet Population: Diversity & Inclusion of the Next 1 Billion‘
Jan 31, 2021/ Mozilla Foundation Internet Health Report 2020
Jan 3, 2021/ VICE India Interview ‘Videos of Indian Women Doing Stunts in Sarees Keep Going Viral’
Nov 11, 2020/ Het financieele dagblad (Dutch) Interview ‘How do you reach a billion new customers? ‘By Listening To Them’
June 15, 2020/ ScrollStack: White saviors are here to stay (critique of Rutger Bregman’s article on ‘the real lord of the flies’)
June 13, 2020/ NRC Handelsblad (Dutch) Op-ed piece: Altijd maar weer die witte redders
May 14, 2020/ FAZ (German): Facebook is laying 37,000 kilometers of submarine cables around Africa
May 5, 2020/ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Foundation for Social Democracy): Technology for a social cause: TikTok and Asia’s mobile-first nations
Mar 25, 2020/ Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Foundation for Social Democracy): Digital Justice for the Next Billion
Mar 24, 2020/ Sight & Life magazine: Nudging the Next Billion
Mar 13, 2020/ Interview with Quartz India article, Inside the Chinese dating apps exploiting the loneliness of India’s men
Feb 23, 2020/ CIO magazine, Diversity darf kein Hindernis sein [German]
Jan 23, 2020/ Reviewed by D+C (Development & Cooperation magazine), No level playing field
Dec 1, 2019/ The Hindu: Traversing in an Emerging Field
Nov 24, 2019/ Interview with The Telegraph on the Next Billion and the rise of Irrational Design
Nov 5, 2019/ Op-Ed in Quartz on ‘The biggest myths about the next billion internet users’
Sept 7, 2019/ Beware of social media! Publication in Esakal (the most popular Marathi magazine) on the impact of the ‘Next Billion Users’ in rethinking social media.
Aug 26, 2019/ Forbes named Payal Arora the “Next Billion champion” as one of the key people to change tech in their article ‘10,000 People In Copenhagen Are About To Determine A Better Future For You’
Aug 11, 2019/ Africa Development news interview on the Next Billion Users
Aug 8, 2019/ iRights interview on the Next Billion users (German)
Aug 1, 2019/ YourStory interview: Why digital benefits need to be balanced with data privacy
July 27, 2019/ Engaget Book review: Hitting the Books: Modern surveillance and ‘the science of happiness’
July 24, 2019/ Strategy + Business Book Review: A new view of the fortune at the bottom of the digital pyramid
July 7, 2019/ Mag.de (German) Interview on book: What if social media belonged to the user?
July 7, 2019/ El Confidential (Spanish) Interview on book: Why do they use the internet in poor countries? Same reasons as we do.
June 24, 2019/ Imperica Op-ed piece: Can Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Libra empower the unbanked billions?
June 21, 2019/ NRC Handelsblad (Dutch) Op-ed piece: Facebook, be honest about your ambitions.
June 8, 2019/ The Economist review: How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use
May 14, 2019/ The Nation Book Review: The Race for Global Internet Access Is Not a Zero-Sum Game: Payal Arora’s The Next Billion Users turns a critical eye to the humanitarian push to connect the globe.
May 1, 2019/ Penguin India Book review: Busted! 8 Myths about the Billion Internet Users that are you Need to Know.
May 10, 2019/ Digital Society Forum (French) Book Review: The next billion users: an immersion in the internet of the poor.
April 21, 2019/ NRC Handelsblad (Dutch) Interview: The biggest misconceptions about how the next billion internet users spend their screen time.
March 6, 2019/ De Standaard (Dutch) Interview: That the poor use the internet primarily for entertainment? So what?
March 7, 2019/ Erasmus Magazine interview: People in developing countries want to do the exact same things we do on the Internet: listen to music and watch porn.
March 8, 2019/ Tech Crunch interview: Who are the next billion users and what do they want?
March 27, 2019/ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung FAZ Edition: Now the next billion users are online (German)
March 22, 2019/ Engineering & Technology Magazine (E&T) Book review: An uncomfortable challenge to the West’s collective superiority complex that questions the way we see technology in the connected world.
March 21, 2019/ Times Higher Education New and Noteworthy Review: Phone habits of the developing world; the cult of the cute; problems on the home front; game theories; and beggar thy neighbor.
Feb 23, 2019/ Vrij Nederland Interview: In poorer countries, people are not only online to improve their lives, they also want to watch porn (Dutch)
Jan, 2019/ BREAKER Interview: The Next Billion Tech Users are just like the rest of us.
Jan, 2019/ The Boston Globe Interview: The global poor go online for the same reasons you do by
Mar, 2015/ Deutsche Welle’s documentary Life Links Interview (German): Why a mobile tech revolution needs teachers
Sept, 2014/ National Public Radio (NPR) Interview by Anya Kamenetz on the Global Learning X-Prize: A 15 Million dollars space race for education
Dec, 2012/ EM.Online article on Receiving an Education Online where I was mentioned as one of the “best professors” for the Universiteit van Nederland initiative
Oct, 2012/ EM Newsletter article on Cross-discipline collaboration at ESHCC with Filip Vermeylen on new media and the art world
Aug, 2011/ Imperica (part of Perini Publications) Interview with Oxford-based UK transmedia company: Common Ground.
July 4, 2010/ Interview by Dr. Janelle Ward in The Broker: Discussion on the Hole-in-the-Wall initiative
2004/ Private property. Haight Ashbury Journal, 1(1), 17-21.
2003/ Train-tracks. Diversity and Distinction Magazine. Harvard University Student Press.
2003/ Belize. Gamut Magazine. Harvard University Student Press.
2003/ Old Tune. Gamut Magazine. Harvard University Student Press.
2001/ Sales Training Manual for Junior Consultants. Chalk & Vermilion Publishing.
1994/ Kerala Poetry
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