“The emerging movement to confront these interwoven problems includes, for example, the Overlooked initiative by The New York Times which acknowledges the lives of remarkable individuals who were left out of the newspaper’s obituary section, primarily because of their gender, race, or social status, and Whose Knowledge, a “global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet”.”The emerging movement to confront these interwoven problems includes, for example, the Overlooked initiative by The New York Times which acknowledges the lives of remarkable individuals who were left out of the newspaper’s obituary section, primarily because of their gender, race, or social status, and Whose Knowledge, a “global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet”.”

Read more from Louis Bickford, founder/CEO, Memria, about how online discoverability intersects with invisibility and marginalisation of the Global Majority on the Internet. Whose Knowledge? is mentioned as one of the initiatives tackling the issues around discoverability online.

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