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Digital public goods platforms for development: the challenge of scaling
The information society, volume 38, issue 5 (2022), pp. 364-376
"In this article we consider the notion of digital global public good and articulate our understanding of it. Against this conceptual foil, we examine the development of DHIS2 (District Health Information Software Version 2), a global health platform inspired by public goods, focusing on the paradox...
What is an ideal internet to you? A global exploration of digital rights trends
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Pollicy
(2022), 56 pp., bibliogr. p.47-56
CC BY-SA
"This white paper seeks to provide an overview of the core thematic issues around digital rights and digital safety across the world. The content builds off a global mapping exercise of organisations and knowledge, predominantly focused on Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Eas...
The unfreedom monitor: data governance
Amsterdam:
Advox; Global Voices
(2022), 11 pp.
"Data governance is an integral aspect of digital authoritarianism because it incorporates any type of control, authority, and manipulation of data […]. Within the context of digital authoritarianism, data governance may incorporate both states and non-state actors that collaborate with states to ...
Künstliche Intelligenz: so lässt sie sich nachhaltiger gestalten
Berlin:
Algorithm Watch; Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung (iöw); DAI-Labor
(2022), 58 pp.
"Eine Zahl taucht immer wieder in der Diskussion zur Nachhaltigkeit von KI auf: Die Emissionen, die in der Forschungs- und Entwicklungsphase großer Sprachmodelle anfallen, entsprechen den Emissionen von fünf Autos während ihrer gesamten Laufzeit. Diese Zahl stammt aus einer wegweisenden Analyse v...
The chilling: what more can news organisations do to combat gendered online violence?
UNESCO; International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)
(2022), 42 pp.
" ... many newsroom reactions to gender-based online violence appear to have been non-existent, ad hoc, or inadequate. At times, they have even damaged the women journalists targeted. Large global news organisations sometimes identified as “best practice” exemplars by expert responders interview...
Financing mechanisms for locally owned internet infrastructure
Connectivity Capital; Association for Progressive Communication (APC); Internet Society; Connect Humanity
(2022), 134 pp., graphs, tables
"The digital divide is not a problem the market alone will solve. We need to do things differently. Globally there is a growing movement of community connectivity providers — including community networks, municipal networks, cooperatives, and social enterprises — connecting underserved communiti...
A taxonomy of internet shutdowns: the technologies behind network interference
Access Now
(2022), 45 pp., glossary p.39-45
"In this paper, we outline each of the various technical mechanisms for implementing a shutdown, and the options for mitigating each type. Our hope is that technologists and civil society groups working to end shutdowns will find this a useful technical resource to understand, prepare for, circumven...
Digital Africa: how Big Tech and African startups are reshaping the continent
Hamburg:
German Institute for Global and Area Studies
(2022), 13 pp.
"In summary, digitalisation is gaining momentum in Africa as the continent experiences significant improvements in its digital infrastructure and a vibrant startup ecosystem. To harness this momentum across society, African governments and their partners will need to strike the right balance between...
Artificial communication: how algorithms produce social intelligence
Cambridge, Mass.:
MIT Press
(2022), xiv, 184 pp., bibliogr. p.147-180, index
ISBN 978-0-262-04666-4 (hardcover)
CC BY-NC-ND
"Argues that what makes AI socially relevant and useful is not intelligence at all but something even more human: communication. If machines are going to improve their ability to address ever more important human issues, it will not be because they have learned to think like people, but because we h...
Digital inequality beyond the digital divide: conceptualizing adverse digital incorporation in the global South
Information technology for development, volume (2022), 17 pp.
"Digital systems are significantly associated with inequality in the global South. That association has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or related terminologies whose core conceptualization is the exclusion of some groups from the benefits of digital systems. However, wi...
Digital platform regulation: global perspectives on internet governance
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2022), xvii, 319 pp., illustr., index
ISBN 978-3-030-95220-4 (ebook); 978-3-030-95219-8 (print)
CC BY
"Once a specialised and niche field within internet and digital media studies, internet governance has in recent years moved to the forefront of policy debate. In the wake of scandals such as Cambridge Analytica and the global 'techlash' against digital monopolies, platform studies are undergoing a ...
Understanding RT’s audiences: exposure not endorsement for Twitter followers of Russian state-sponsored media
The international journal of press/politics, volume 27, issue 1 (2022), pp. 220-242
"The Russian state-funded international broadcaster RT (formerly Russia Today) has attracted much attention as a purveyor of Russian propaganda. To date, most studies of RT have focused on its broadcast, website, and social media content, with little research on its audiences. Through a data-driven ...
At the confluence of digital rights and climate & environmental justice: a landscape review
Engine Room; Ford Foundation; Ariadne; Mozilla Foundation
(2022), 90 pp.
"The aim of this report is to provide a landscape scan of how an extremely diverse set of communities and movements are working at intersections of technology, digital rights, environmental justice and climate justice. The report’s primary audiences are grantmakers and practitioners working in or ...
Digitale Medien und Nachhaltigkeit: Medienpraktiken für ein gutes Leben
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS
(2022), xi, 277 pp., bibliogr. p.241-277
ISBN 978-3-658-36166-2 (print); 978-3-658-36167-9 (ebook)
CC BY
Other Editions: Habilitation Universität Bremen, 2020
"Wie nutzen Individuen, Nichtregierungsorganisationen und Unternehmen digitale Medien, um zu einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft beizutragen? Die Autorin rekonstruiert in dieser Open-Access-Publikation die sozial-ökologischen Folgen aktueller Digitalisierungsprozesse und zeigt anhand dreier Fallstudien...
Atlas der digitalen Arbeit: Daten und Fakten über die Beschäftigung der Zukunft
Berlin; Düsseldorf:
Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund; Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
(2022), 54 pp.
"Der Atlas der digitalen Arbeit blickt auf viele verschiedene Branchen: Auto, Chemie und Pharma, aber auch die Pflege und die öffentliche Hand. Es geht um grundlegende Fragen: Wie weit sind smarte Computer und Roboter in diesen Bereichen auf dem Vormarsch? Welche Folgen hat das für die Beschäftig...
Measuring digital development: facts and figures 2022
Geneva:
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
(2022), iv, 26 pp.
ISBN 978-92-61-37011-5 (pdf)
CC BY-NC-SA
"As the world welcomes its 8 billionth inhabitant, an estimated 5.3 billion people – roughly 66 per cent of the global population – are using the Internet. Yet some 2.7 billion people worldwide remain totally offline, with universal connectivity still a distant prospect in least developed countr...
Revisiting digital inclusion: a survey of theory, measurement and recent research
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Manchester:
Centre for Digital Development
(2022), 50 pp., bibliogr. p.42-50
"Focusing on the internet as a foundational technology, this paper begins by summarising recent developments in digital inclusion theory, particularly as this relates to developing countries. It sets out a framework of core components of digital inclusion - including access/use, quality of access/us...
Handbook of digital inequality
Cheltenham; Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar Publishing
(2022), xii, 386 pp., figures, index
ISBN 978-1-03-530898-9 (pbk); 978-1-78811-657-2 (online)
"International contributors assess a variety of key contexts that impact access to digital technologies, including contextual variations related to geography and infrastructure, as well as individual differences related to age, income, health and disability status. Chapters explore how variations em...
Government internet shutdowns are changing: how should citizens and democracies respond?
Washington, DC:
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(2022), 45 pp.
"The most promising strategies to help citizens circumvent internet shutdowns do not involve deploying satellite internet devices or floating balloons. Instead, simpler solutions, such as encouraging citizens to download anticensorship apps or software ahead of time, are much more useful. But they d...
Why aren’t women part of the conversation? A study of the gender gap in social media use in India, its causes and the implications for women’s empowerment
BBC Media Action
(2022), 12 pp.
"This report summarises learnings from BBC Media Action’s landscaping study of the gendered dimensions of social media access and use in India. It addresses 10 questions that have implications for designing digital solutions for women’s empowerment in India." (p.2)
