Google Nigeria has released a voice assistant with a nuanced and representative English accent. This effort to regionally customise the service may help to address the growing calls for inclusivity across sectors, ensuring people around the world have tools suited to their needs.

With a population of over 1.3 billion, the chances of feeling lonely in India may seem slim. But for the country’s 26.8 million disabled people, the emotional effects of exclusion are very real, especially when it comes to relationships. How is dating start-up Inclov serving this community’s needs?

Cheap handsets and low mobile data costs have helped India become WhatsApp’s biggest market, boasting more than 200 million active users. Yet while many use it simply to message loved ones or colleagues, group chats are proving to be fertile ground for political content and ‘fake news’.

Fantasy sports in India has seen huge growth in the run up to 2017, with the overall userbase growing ten-fold. The sense of belonging that fantasy sports can create, as well as growing internet penetration across the country, is helping place many Indian sports fans into the virtual hotseat.