Charles has been an Uber driver in Nairobi for nearly five years. But the last couple of years have been hard, with stubbornly high gas prices eating into his earnings. In...
Uber driver Emmanuel Bitok prepares for the day in the home he shares with his girlfriend Winny (23) in Nairobi’s Mathare neighborhood, Kenya, on October 16, 2020. Previously a workshop manager for a furniture company, Emmanuel began driving for Uber three years ago. Emmanuel checks the Uber app as he waits for his first ride of the day.
Uber came to Kenya, a country of densely populated cities without efficient public transport systems, and aggressively signed up drivers while simultaneously increasing ridership by dropping prices and making taxis a more affordable option.
In 2010, Uruguayan president-elect José Mujica made headlines for the bright blue mini-truck he rode to his inauguration ceremony. The vehicle, which looked like any ordinary pickup truck, was used...
When one of China’s once-popular electric vehicle startups went bust, car owners encountered an unexpected problem: Their vehicles went “offline.” Richard Qian didn’t know what to expect when he heard...
Jibran Gulzar was all set to move to London to pursue a master’s degree in 2019. On August 3 that year, he arrived in his hometown, Srinagar, to renew his...
Delivery riders leave to pick up their orders for delivery. In Kashmir, it’s often challenging to find delivery workers as the profession is not widely accepted. The team at Gatoes, as per one of the emplyees, is trying to chnage perceptions and make delivery work a respectable career choice.
Over the past two days, ride hailing apps Uber and Bolt have become battlegrounds for a conflict between Nigerians and South Africans over a beauty pageant contestant. Earlier this month,...
On the afternoon of August 19, Democrat Liam Keyes entered a TikTok battle. Against a blue background, the 19-year-old lashed out at his Republican opponent, fellow TikToker “Jackson,” who donned...
The average person spends almost four hours on their phone each day, scrolling through apps that offer endless entertainment and information. Rest of World has written extensively about the traditional...
Shortly after Diamantha Aweti Kalapalo posted a video of a funeral ceremony in her village on YouTube in 2016, the platform took it down for violating its policy on child...
By 7 a.m. each day, the state-run milk collection center in the village of Mekaguda is busy as dairy farmers stream in to deposit their stocks of raw milk. The...
Devita Ariyanti has been selling hijabs for four years from a small store in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta. Her biggest challenge used to be delayed shipments. Now, she is...
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