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Digitalität tanzen! Über Commoning & Computing

Shintaro Miyazaki

Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 129 pp.

"Digitale Technologien sind eine Zumutung! Um dies zu ändern, sollten wir uns nicht von ihnen abwenden, sondern uns eingehender mit ihrer transformatorischen Macht befassen. Shintaro Miyazaki ruft dazu auf, die alternativen Rhythmen des kooperativen, solidarischen Zusammenlebens (Commoning) operabe ... more

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Promoting Newsafety from the Exile: The Emergence of New Journalistic Roles in Diaspora Journalists’ Networks

Porlezza, Colin, Rana Arafat

Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 9 (2022), pp. 1867-1889

"Diaspora journalists and digital media play an important role as stakeholders for war-ridden homeland media landscapes such as Syria. This study analyzes, from a safety in practice perspective, the physical and digital threats that challenge the work of Syrian citizen journalists examining the role ... more

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Reset Required? Evaluating the Media Freedom Coalition After its First Two Years

Mary Myers, Martin Scott, Mel Bunce, Lina Yassin, Maria Carmen Fernandez, Rachel Khan

University of East Anglia (UEA);City University of London;University of the Philippines-Diliman (2022), 69 pp.

"The purpose of this report is to evaluate the Media Freedom Coalition (MFC) in its first two years of operation, from 2019 to 2021. The MFC is a partnership of 50 countries working together to advocate for media freedom and the safety of journalists. Our independent report is based on over 100 inte ... more

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Effective consortia: A guide to emerging thinking and practice

Rachel Houghton, Niall Marriott, Joanna Pyres, Catherine Russ

Oxford; London: Partnering Initiative (TPI);Bond (2021), 71 pp.

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Online durch die Pandemie: Wie sich Glauben und Leben verändern

Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW)

Hamburg: Missionshilfe Verlag (2021), 228 pp.

"Mit Covid-19 hat sich eine todbringende Pandemie erstmals global verbreitet, mit weitreichenden Folgen auf allen Ebenen, auch für Mobilität und Kommunikation in Kirche, Mission und weltweiter Ökumene. Partnerschaftsreisen oder Auslandsjahre für junge Freiwillige sind ausgefallen, stattdessen si ... more

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Mapping Coalitions: Mapping Out Coalitions, Collaborations, Partnerships and Networks for Media and Civil Society in Sub-Saharan Africa

Haron Mwangi

Johannesburg; Kalmar: Consortium to Promote Human Rights, Civic Freedoms and Media Development (CHARM) Africa;Fojo Media Institute (2021), 35 pp.

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Performance Evaluation of USAID/Colombia Programa De Alianzas Para La Reconciliación

Olga Nazario, William Orlando Prieto, Juan Camilo Rivera

USAID;Democracy International, Inc (2021), vii, 26 pp.

"Colombia’s history of violence and armed conflict has eroded people’s trust in each other and trust, which ranks low among the components that Colombians consider important for reconciliation, is difficult to restore during the course of a project. Still, the Program of Alliances for Reconcilia ... tion (PAR) has achieved changes in perception that represent an important component in changing mindset that could eventually extend through the communities where participants live and work. Though implementers recognized positive effects on perceptions of reconciliation among participants, these further effects in communities may only be visible among non-participant indirect beneficiaries. Similarly, though PAR participants overwhelmingly reported positive effects of PAR participation on their behavior and some drivers of reconciliation, examples were limited to their personal thoughts and actions and not those of their communities. Without a baseline for comparison, the degree of shifts in attitudes and behaviors cannot be determined, but indications of changes in attitude paired with reporting of ongoing participation and continued use of skills indicate participants remain changed, at least in the short term, by their participation in PAR activities. DecidoSer workshops and the Ambassadors for Reconciliation initiatives are successful tools that provide the opportunity to identify lessons learned and good practices in the management of community changes beyond individual changes. DecidoSer is valuable not just for participants, but implementers (who are themselves members of communities whose contributions to reconciliation are worthwhile and necessary) as well, and the changes in trust and dialogue that contributed to improved business practices are a positive (and perhaps unexpected) result. Respondents generally saw the conceptual benefits of both DecidoSer and Ambassadors for Reconciliation for sustainability of reconciliation, though without specific evidence for believing this, or enough time to demonstrate it. Contrary to the notion that multi-sectoral relationships within a community might contribute to sustainability, the evaluation team did not find evidence of a correlation between PAR’s activities in a community and long-term engagement with other community actors." (Conclusions, page 28) more

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Coalitions for Change: Collective Action, Better Media Ecosystems

Michael Randall

Protecting Independent Media for Effective Development (PRIMED) (2021), 32 pp.

"This learning brief provides an overview of the rites of passage that coalitions may experience as they attempt to chart their way through what is often unknown territory. The findings of the PRIMED workshop suggest that, via media development agencies, they can tap into a wealth of local and inter ... more

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M&E of Network Development

Nigel Simister, Alison Napier, Clare Moberly, Jenny Ross

INTRAC (2021), 5 pp.

"Network results can be divided into different categories, such as network vibrancy, network connectivity and network effects. Monitoring and evaluation tools and methods need to be chosen to assess each of these areas separately, depending on the need. Network surveys and social network analysis ar ... more

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The Internet Myth: From the Internet Imaginary to Network Ideologies

Paolo Bory

London: University of Westminster Press (2020), xiii, 153 pp.

"The Internet Myth retraces and challenges the myth laying at the foundations of the network ideologies – the idea that networks, by themselves, are the main agents of social, economic, political and cultural change. By comparing and integrating different sources related to network histories, this ... more

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Common Services for Communication and Community Engagement: National and Sub-National Platforms. A Status Update

CDAC Network (2020), 29 pp.

"It has been widely agreed that national platforms for Communication and Community Engagement (CCE) are essential for making progress toward greater participation and accountability in humanitarian response. A policy paper describing this in detail was produced by the CDAC Network in 2016, supported ... more

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A Framework for Assessing Success of National CCE Platforms

CDAC Network;Ground Truth Solutions (2020), 14 pp.

"This framework lays out the multiple elements needed to successfully build and assess the performance of a national Communications and Community Engagement (CCE) Platform. These Platforms enable a broad range of government and disaster response organisations to implement coordinated communication a ... more

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The Journey to Build Fiji’s National Communication Platform

Dan McClure

CDAC Network;Ground Truth Solutions (2020), 8 pp.

"Over the last two years, Fiji has worked to build a Communication and Community Engagement (CCE) platform that embeds advanced two-way communication capabilities in the national disaster response system. While it is common to think of “platforms” as a technology service, the intent here is much ... more

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Practical Experiences Building: A Government-Led CCE Platform in Vanuatu

Dan McClure

CDAC Network;Ground Truth Solutions (2020), 8 pp.

"Building effective CCE capabilities is particularly important in Vanuatu, a Pacific nation spanning 83 islands, which is vulnerable to natural disasters ranging from tropical cyclones and volcanic eruptions, to disease and agricultural threats. 2020 has been a particularly challenging year for its ... more

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#KeepItOn: Organising the Global Effort to End Internet Shutdowns

Sarah Pugh, Deborah Doane

International Civil Society Centre (2020), 7 pp.

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Evaluation of ICT4Democracy in East Africa Network: Assessing its Success in Improving Citizen Participation, Realisation of Human Rights and the Level of Transparency and Accountability of Government in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

David Jodnell, Dwan Kaoukji, David Musime

DBG Consultants (2019), 53 pp.

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Netz-Dinge: 30 Geschichten - vom Telegrafenkabel bis zur Datenbrille

Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2019), 171 pp.

"Die Vernetzung unseres Alltags schreitet immer schneller voran: Ist das Smartphone für viele zum unverzichtbaren Begleiter geworden, geht der Trend längst zum "Internet der Dinge", das etwa mittels Sprachassistenten den Menschen nicht nur unterstützt, sondern mitsamt seiner Umgebung unablässig ... more

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Evaluation of the Implementation of the Alliance to Better Protect Minors Online: Final Report

Vanessa Ludden, Fredrik Albert Hahn, Angeli Jeyarajah

Ramboll Management Consulting;European Commission (2019), 163 pp.

"This study evaluates the implementation of the Alliance to better protect minors online (‘the Alliance’). Officially launched in 2017, the Alliance is a multi-stakeholder platform through which companies make a series of commitments to address emerging risks that minors face online. The initiat ... more

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Cultural Crowdfunding: Platform Capitalism, Labour and Globalization

Vincent Rouzé (ed.)

London: University of Westminster Press (2019), vii, 118 pp.

"Relying on individual contributions coordinated by social media to finance cultural production (and carry out promotional tasks) is a significant shift, especially when supported by morphing public policies, supposedly enhancing cultural diversity and accessibility. The aim of this book is to propo ... more

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Peer to Peer: The Commons Manifesto

Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Alex Pazaitis

London: University of Westminster Press (2019), 91 pp.

"As capitalism faces a series of structural crises, a new social, political and economic dynamic is emerging: peer to peer. What is peer to peer (P2P)? Why is it essential for building a commons-centric future? How could this happen? These are the questions we try to answer, by tying together four o ... more