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Platform Problems and Regulatory Solutions: Findings from a Comprehensive Review of Existing Studies and Investigations
Quick Overview
Paris: UNESCO; Research ICT Africa (2023), 17 pp.
"The proliferation of hate speech and disinformation on online platforms has serious implications for human rights, trust and safety as per international human rights law and standards. The mutually-reinforcing determinants of the problems are: ‘attention economics’; automated advertising system
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The State of ICT in Uganda
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2019), VII, 26 pp.
"It is evident that Uganda will need to do some things differently to ensure improved outcomes. Addressing inconsistencies in policy that affect the sector is critical. Each policy that impacts the sector, regardless of the Ministry that develops it, should be evaluated before implementation within
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The State of ICT in Mozambique 2018
Research ICT Africa (2019), iv, 15 pp.
The State of ICT in In Nigeria 2018
Research ICT Africa (2018), 118 pp.
The State of ICT in In South Africa
Research ICT Africa (2018), 123 pp.
Beyond Access: Addressing Digital Inequality in Africa
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2017), 17 pp.
"Although most Africans remain disconnected from the Internet, and access to broadband services continues to be a central policy issue, the increased availability of broadband services alone will not reduce digital inequality on the continent. While the provision of access to the Internet remains a
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Gender Assessment of ICT Access and Usage in Africa
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), 39 pp.
"What is clear from the Research ICT Africa (RIA) Household and Individual Access and Usage Survey is that the diffusion of ICT is highly uneven concentrating in urban areas and leaving some rural areas almost untouched. Access to these technologies is constrained by income as is usage, and as they
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The Poverty of ICT Policy, Research, and Practice in Africa
Information Technologies & International Development, volume 6, issue Special edition (2010), pp. 79-88
"In responding to some of the major narratives in the literature on information communication technologies and development, this article attributes the relatively poor ICT policy outcomes in Africa, particularly regarding the deployment of information and communication technologies for poverty allev
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