Rest of World

Rest of World is a nonprofit newsroom focused on technology’s impact beyond the Western bubble. Rather than treating Silicon Valley as the default lens, it assigns reporters to examine how digital tools, platforms, and hardware reshape daily life and economies across Africa, Asia, China, Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa.

The site organizes coverage around four beats—Tech Giants, China Outside China, EV Revolution, and Innovation—and cross-cuts them with sections such as Access & Connectivity, Creators & Communities, E-commerce, Labor, Money, Politics, and The Platform Economy. Recent stories range from the real cost of running AI models in non-English languages to Red Sea conflict rerouting cloud infrastructure and BYD’s expanding EV shipping fleet.

It suits journalists, researchers, policy analysts, product teams expanding into emerging markets, and general readers who want context on AI adoption, electric vehicles, platform labor, and digital regulation outside the US and Europe. The reporting is free to read, with a newsletter for regular updates.

Use the beat and region filters to track a specific theme, and subscribe to the newsletter if you want a periodic digest instead of checking the homepage. The archive is useful for background research on markets where English-language tech media is thin.