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- Cybersecurity primer: how to build cybersecurity into USAID programming (2021)
- A survival toolkit for journalists: how to protect yourself against digital surveillance (2022)
- Travel guide to the digital world: surveillance and international standards (2014)
- Digital contact tracing for pandemic response: ethics and governance guidance (2020)
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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 ...
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...
Privacy imperilled: analysis of surveillance, encryption and data localisation laws in Africa
Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA)
(2022), 67 pp.
CC BY-NC
"The right to privacy has come under increased attack in many African countries, with the proliferation of digital technologies being matched by state measures that negate this right. In the past few years, many countries across the continent have enacted various laws that permit surveillance, manda...
Die Zukunft von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung: Analysen und Empfehlungen zum Schutz der Grundrechte in der digitalen Welt
Springer Vieweg
(2022), xxiii, 304 pp.
ISBN 978-3-658-35262-2 (print); 978-3-658-35263-9 (ebook)
CC BY
"Die in diesem Open-Access-Buch zusammengeführten interdisziplinären Untersuchungen des „Forums Privatheit“ gehen der Frage nach, wie sich die Verwirklichungsbedingungen von Privatheit und Selbstbestimmung durch die Digitalisierung aller Lebensbereiche radikal ändern. Nahezu jede Lebensregung...
A survival toolkit for journalists: how to protect yourself against digital surveillance
Internews; Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA)
(2022), 24 pp.
"Surveillance of journalists has become a very topical and controversial issue that now requires attention at a number of levels – the level of the state, CSOs, and journalism organisations themselves. The systematic and arbitrary harvesting of journalists’ information, tracking and targeting of...
Gender approaches to cybersecurity: design, defence and response
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
(2021), 70 pp.
"This report outlines the relevance of gender norms to cybersecurity. It draws on existing research, supplemented by stakeholder and expert interviews, to assess gender-based differences in the social roles and interaction of women, men and non-binary people of all ages reflected in the distribution...
Cybersecurity primer: how to build cybersecurity into USAID programming
USAID; Digital Frontiers
(2021), 65 pp., abbrev. p.5-6
"This Primer is intended to increase awareness and provide a basic understanding of cyber threats, cybersecurity, and cyber resilience as they relate to development programming for USAID staff. It does not provide specific cybersecurity programming or operational recommendations or address technical...
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...
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
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...
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...
Protecting children from online sexual exploitation: a guide to action for religious leaders and communities
Bangkok; New York:
ECPAT International; Religions for Peace
(2016), 37 pp.
"It is our sincerest hope that this guide will have provided you with a greater understanding about online child sexual exploitation. We hope it has also given you a clearer realisation of the important role that you and your faith community can play in helping to prevent and end this crime. Togethe...
Red Intergeneracional para la Promoción del Uso Seguro de Internet: una mirada a la situación actual y una propuesta metodológica
la Niña y Adolescentes Instituto Interamericano del Niño; World Visión República Dominicana
(2016), 128 pp., glossary p.20-21
"La presente propuesta metodológica para la promoción del uso seguro del Internet producto de un acuerdo de trabajo entre el Instituto Interamericano del Niño, la Niña y Adolescentes (IIN-OEA) y World Visión República Dominicana aborda, en forma conjunta, los desafíos que, desde la perspectiv...
Travel guide to the digital world: surveillance and international standards
London:
Global Partners Digital
(2014), 98 pp., glossary p.80-84, web direct. p.86-87
"The internet has enabled an unprecedented ability to monitor and track people and information flows as highlighted in the 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden about online surveillance carried out by the United States’ National Security Agency. The revelations have kicked off debates across the wor...
Hotlines: responding to reports of illegal online content. A guide to setting up an internet hotline
London:
GSMA; Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content; International Association of Internet Hotlines (INHOPE)
(2014), 30 pp.
"As part of its ongoing commitment to fighting online child sexual abuse content and, in particular, to helping its members realise the objectives of the Mobile Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse Content, the GSMA has worked with INHOPE, Save the Children, ECPAT, IWF, Net Safe Latvia, Meldpunt, ICM...
Leaping over the firewall: a review of censorship circumvention tools
Washington, DC:
Freedom House
(2011), 75 pp.
"Internet censorship poses a large and growing challenge to online freedom of expression around the world. Censorship circumvention tools are critical to bypass restrictions on the internet and thereby to protect free expression online. Circumvention tools are primarily designed to bypass internet f...
Working towards a deeper understanding of digital safety for children and young people in developing nations
Cambridge, Mass.:
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
(2010), 32 pp.
"While the safety of children and young people in digital spaces has become an important issue of qualitative as well as quantitative research in the developed world and has led to a significant body of knowledge, the research efforts in the developing nations, with few exceptions, are still relativ...
