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ICT4D 3.0? Part 1—The components of an emerging “digital-for-development” paradigm
Electronic journal of information systems in developing countries (EJISDC), volume 86, issue 3 (2020), 15 pp.
"What has changed in the decade or so since the ideas of a new “ICT4D 2.0” phase were first mooted? This paper reviews those changes, based on a new framework model. At a foundational level, it looks at recent and current trends in digital technologies, data, processes and the implications these...
2020 child online safety index
DQ Institute
(2020), 15 pp.
"The Child Online Safety Index (COSI) measures the level of online safety for children across the world based on six pillars: Cyber Risks, Disciplined Digital Use, Digital Competency, Guidance & Education, Social Infrastructure, and Connectivity. Each of these pillars are formed by 2-8 focused areas...
Mobile internet connectivity 2020 Sub-Saharan Africa factsheet
GSMA
(2020), 2 pp.
"There are now more than 3.8 billion mobile internet subscribers globally, representing 49% of the world’s population. However, adoption has not been equitable, with mobile internet adoption standing at 26% in Sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2019. The region accounts for almost half of the global...
Digital inequalities in the Global South
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2020), xvii, 372 pp., 20 illustr., index
ISBN 978-3-030-32706-4 (pdf); 978-3-030-32705-7 (print)
"This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits, ...
Exclusión y deriva: dinámicas fronterizas de la digitalidad
México, DF:
Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México; Taurus; Fundación Telefónica
(2020), 192 pp.
ISBN 978-607-319-006-0
"[Este libro] presenta ocho capítulos que se muestran críticos frente a las posibilidades y promesas de la cultura digital, denunciando que la red ha reproducido las formas de desigualdad del mundo analógico. Los autores proponen una reflexión crítica frente a ciertos discursos que se presentan...
¿Y la juventud hoy? Juventud trashumante y nomadismo cultural en Venezuela
Caracas:
Fundación Centro Gumilla
(2020), 62 pp., bibliogr. p.51-53
ISBN 978-980-250-085-7
"En este ensayo, preferimos utilizar la palabra “trashumante” para referirnos sobre todo a la característica del desplazamiento de pobladores jóvenes a zonas de productividad cambiante dentro y fuera del país, adjudicando la de “nómada” a la dimensión cultural de las nuevas generaciones...
Internet y pandemia en las Américas: primera crisis sanitaria en la era digital
Ciudad de Panama:
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS); Democracia Digital
(2020), 286 pp.
ISBN 978-9962-8528-2-7
CC BY
Reaching 50 million women with mobile: a practical guide
London:
GSMA; Altai Consulting
(2020), 41 pp.
"The persistent gender gap in mobile access and use is already well documented, as are the significant benefits of closing it. Across low- and middle-income countries today, women are eight per cent less likely than men to own a mobile phone, 20 per cent less likely to use mobile internet and 33 per...
Digital contact tracing for pandemic response: ethics and governance guidance
Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press
(2020), xiv, 139 pp., bibliogr. p.103-126
ISBN 978-1-4214-4061-3 (pbk); 978-1-4214-4063-7 (ebook)
CC BY-NC-ND
"There is no “one size fits all” approach to digital contact tracing technologies (DCTT). Technology design should not be static, but it should be capable of evolving depending upon local conditions, new evidence, and changing preferences and priorities. Technology companies alone should not con...
Measuring digital development: facts and figures
Geneva:
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
(2020), 17 pp.
ISBN 978-92-61-32511-4
"Facts and Figures 2020 reveals that people in rural areas continue to face greater challenges than people in urban areas in terms of remaining connected during the lockdown, especially in developing economies. Large swathes of the rural landscape are still not covered by mobile broadband networks, ...
ICT aid flows from China to African countries: a communication network perspective
International journal of communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1-25
"The challenge in evaluating China’s foreign aid has always been the unavailability of reliable data sets. This study constitutes the first analysis of the AidData data set from a communication network perspective. It examines China’s development aid to Africa in the ICT sector from 2000 to 2014...
Meaningful connectivity: a new standard to raise the bar for internet access
Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)
(2020), 18 pp.
"The meaningful connectivity standard is a tool to raise the bar for internet access and set more ambitious policy goals for digital development. It sets minimum thresholds across the four dimensions of internet access that matter most to users. These are: regular internet use - minimum threshold: d...
Checklist for the development of portals for international development
Knowledge management for development journal, volume 14, issue 1 (2019), pp. 83-94
"This guideline has been developed by the authors in a collaborative manner over the period May 2018-May 2019 in consultation with the Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev) community. It is designed to provide guidance for development organizations who are setting up portals –also known as...
Operational handbook for child online safety centres
Belgrade:
Save the Children
(2019), 67 pp.
"The Operational Handbook for Contact Centres for online safety of children contains action guidelines as well as knowledge, procedures and rules for successful work through the helpline for providing quality assistance and support to children, youth, families, professionals, teachers and others wor...
The age of surveillance capitalism: the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power
London:
Profile Books
(2019), viii, 691 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-78125-685-5 (pbk); 978-1-78283-274-4 (ebook)
"The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us. The heady optimism of the Internet's early days is gone. Technologies that we...
Smartphone ownership is growing rapidly around the world, but not always equally: in emerging economies, technology use still much more common among young people and the well-educated
Pew Research Center
(2019), 46 pp.
"Mobile technology has spread rapidly around the globe. Today, it is estimated that more than 5 billion people have mobile devices, and over half of these connections are smartphones. But the growth in mobile technology to date has not been equal, either across nations or within them. People in adva...
Measuring digital development: facts and figures 2019
Geneva:
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
(2019), ii, 11 pp.
ISBN 978-92-61-29521-9
"Welcome to the first of ITU’s Measuring Digital Development series of statistical and analytical publications that replace the annual Measuring the Information Society Report. Facts and figures 2019 offers a snapshot of the most important ICT indicators, including estimates for the current year. ...
Telecommunications reclaimed: a hands-on guide to networking communities
Internet Society
(2019), 255 pp., illustr., glossary p.239-249, bibliogr. 250-255
ISBN 978-92-95113-15-2
CC BY-SA
"This book is a guide on how to build a community network, a shared local telecommunications infrastructure, managed as a commons, to access the internet and other digital communications services. It was written collectively by a group of community network pioneers in Europe, activists and researche...
Social theory after the internet: media, technology, and globalization
London:
UCL Press
(2018), xi, 196 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.176-188, index
ISBN 978-1-78735-122-6 (pdf); 978-1-78735-123-3 (pbk)
CC BY
"Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a soph...
Klinische Cyberpsychologie und Cybertherapie
Wien:
facultas
(2018), 246 pp., index
ISBN 978-3-8252-4894-9 (print); 9783838548944 (online)
"Das Werk vermittelt verständlich und anschaulich den aktuellen Stand des Wissens zum Einsatz neuer Medien in der Klinischen Psychologie und Psychotherapie. Neben dem Wandel psychologischen und psychotherapeutischen Denkens und Handelns beleuchten die AutorInnen auch die daraus entstehenden ethisch...
