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Digital Inclusion
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ICT Policies
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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ICT Indicators
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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Mobile Phone Use: Women
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ICTs and Development
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Access to Media & Information
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Telecommunications
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Internet & Social Media Use: Women
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News Consumption & Information Sources of Media Users
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Indigenous Digital & Social Media Communication
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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ICT / Internet Projects (Development Aid)
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Community Telecommunication Networks
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Internet
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Economic Development: Role of ICTs & Media
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ICTs and Poverty Reduction
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Media Use, Media Consumption
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Browser
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Digital Media Landscapes
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Digital Market Concentration
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Search Engines
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Social Media
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Mobile Phone Markets
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ICT Regulation
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World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
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Access to Media & Information: Disadvantaged Groups and Minorities
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
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Audiences & Users
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Rural Communication for Development
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Facebook
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Information Society
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Schools
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
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Access to Media & Information: Indigenous Populations
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Mobile Phone Use: Migrants & Refugees
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Communication Rights
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Freedom of Expression
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Citizen Journalism, Community Journalism
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Free Basics (Facebook Internet Access Programme)
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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Democratization & Digital Media / Social Media
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Social / Digital Media and ICTs in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Management & Prevention
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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Online Learning, E-Learning
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ICT Effects & Impact
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ICT Financing
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Small Enterprises, Micro Businesses, Small & Medium Enterprises (SME)
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Open, Distance and Digital Education (ODDE)
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Satellite Communication & Information Services
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Telecommunication Companies, Mobile Phone & Fixed Line Operators
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Access to Media & Information: Migrants, Refugees, Diasporas
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Digital Advertising, Online Advertising
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Agricultural Information & Extension
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Agriculture & ICTs, e-Agriculture
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Digital & Social Media Use: Children
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Information Needs & Media Use: Refugees & Displaced People
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Nonprofit Organizations, NGOs
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Cybercrimes
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Email, Electronic Mail
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Internet and Development
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Internet / Social Media Law & Regulation
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Digital Financial Services, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payphone Business
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Social Media in Political Communication
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Online Services
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Artificial Intelligence
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Educational Use of ICTs / Internet
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Female ICT Sector Personnel / Professionals
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ICT Economics
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ICT Sector Development
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Countering Hate Speech, Disinformation & Propaganda
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Prices
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Gender Discrimination, Gender Inequalities
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Linguistic Diversity: Internet & Digital Media
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Media Landscapes, Media Systems, Media Situation in General
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Media Law & Regulation
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Influence of Media on Politics
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Communication & Media Indicators
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Mobile Phones in Rural Areas
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Social Development
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Technologies, Information & Communication Technologies
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Internet Bandwith, Broadband & Backbone Networks
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Telecommunication Industries & Markets
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Girls
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Empowerment
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Mobile Phone Advocacy & Campaigns
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Audience Research Methods
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Health Information Access & Use
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Media Use: Women, Female Media Audiences
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Radio Use: Women
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Radio Consumption, Radio Use, Radio Audiences
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Television Consumption, Televison Use, Television Audiences
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Authoritarian Regimes: Media Systems & Landscapes
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Independent & Oppositional Media in Authoritarian Regimes
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Campaigning: Experiences
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Child Abuse: Digital Media
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Girls and Media
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Christian Communication Ethics, Christian Media Ethics
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Data Protection: Law & Regulation
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Digital Rights
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Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
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Media Freedom, Press Freedom
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Community Informatics
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Community Radios
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Developing Countries
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Digitalization in NGOs, Civil Society & Development Organizations
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Local Development Planning
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Development Strategies
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Millenium Development Goals (MDG)
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Development Communication, Communication for Development (C4D)
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Development and Media
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Social Change & Media / Communication
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Convergence of Media
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Internet and Politics
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Online Communication
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Twitter & Microblogs
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YouTube
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ICT Business Management
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Software Industries
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Information Highway
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Documentation Systems
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Information Management
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Female Journalists & Media Workers
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Gender-Based Online Harassment & Sexual Threats
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Media Assistance: Gender Focus
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HIV / AIDS Communication
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HIV / AIDS (General)
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Globalisation: Impact on (Local) Media & Communication
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Satellite Television
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Francophonie
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UNESCO
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Journalism Education & Training
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News
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Corruption Reporting & Role of Media in Curbing Corruption
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Working Conditions of Journalists & Media Personnel
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Local Communication & Media
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Media Assistance
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Media Development Indicators
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Diversity & Pluralism in Media / Communication
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Information Ecosystems
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Information Exchange
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Digital Literacy: Youth
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Small States: Media Systems & Media Landscapes
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Frequency Allocation, Radio Frequency & Spectrum Management
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Regulatory Bodies
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Low-Cost Solutions, Low Budget Calculation
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Politics
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Democracy / Democratization and Media
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Election Campaigns: Social Media
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Propaganda
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Political Transition and Media
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Watchdog Role of the Media
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Press
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Newspapers
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Sustainability
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Public Service Broadcasting
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Radio Debates, Radio Talk Shows, Call-In Radio Programmes
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Radio Engineering & Technologies
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Media Effects
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Research in Media & Communication
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Communication Research Design
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Comparative Approaches & Methods in Communication Research
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Human Development Index (HDI)
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Rural Communication, Media in Rural Areas
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Social Aspects
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Inequalities
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Antennas
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Informatics
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Radio Broadcasting Equipment & Technologies
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Short Wave Radio (SW)
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Software
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Remote Work, Teleworking, Working from Home
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Telephone
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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh
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Bridging the Gender Gap: Mobile Access and Usage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Connected Women 2015
GSMA;Altai Consulting (2015), 128 pp.
"Women on average are 14% less likely to own a mobile phone than men, which translates into 200 million fewer women than men owning mobile phones. Women in South Asia are 38% less likely to own a phone than men, highlighting that the gender gap in mobile phone ownership is wider in certain parts of
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ICT Facts and Figures
Geneva: ITU (2015), 8 pp.
"In 2015 there are more than 7 billion mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide, up from less than 1 billion in 2000. Globally 3.2 billion people are using the Internet of which 2 billion are from developing countries. ICTs will play an even more significant role in the post 2015 development agenda a
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Panorama des médias en ligne: Algérie, Égypte, Jordanie, Liban, Maroc, Palestine, Syrie, Tunisie
Paris: CFI Coopération Médias (2015), 78 pp.
"La présente étude, menée entre juillet 2014 et janvier 2015, est basée sur plus de 45 entretiens approfondis, sur 130 candidatures reçues par CFI dans le cadre de sa compétition EBTICAR-Média1, soutenue par l’U.E., ainsi que sur l’analyse de nombreux rapports, articles et essais. Cette
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Online Media Overview: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia
Paris: CFI Coopération Médias (2015), 27 pp.
"This document is an abridged version of a wide-ranging survey conducted between July 2014 and January 2015, which attempts to provide an overall view of the complex, ever-changing and fluid landscape of the online media in the Arab world. It is based on over 45 in-depth interviews, 130 applications
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More or Less Equal: How Digital Platforms Can Help Advance Communication Rights
Geneva: Globethics.net (2014), 158 pp.
Sub-Saharan Africa: Universal Service Fund Study
London: GSMA (2014), 95 pp.
"The following report examines Universal Service Funds (‘USFs’) in 23 Sub-Saharan African (‘SSA’) countries These USFs are examined in a global context i.e., taking into account their characteristics and performance when measured against an additional 46 USFs in the Arab States, the Americas
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Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa
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The Sub-Saharan African Media Landscape: Then, Now and in the Future
Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.
"Over five years Facebook has grown from practically no users in Sub-Saharan Africa to become the most widely used social media platform. In the four countries where face-to-face surveys were carried out for this research, between 14% (Tanzania) and 27% (Ghana) of all respondents were using it [...]
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Face-To-Face Survey Overview Summary Results
London: Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.
"Mobile ownership in all of the four surveys [in Ghana, Nothern Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania] was around 90%, making the mobile phone the most widely owned device media device, both used as a media carrier (radio) and a media in its own right (Internet, SMS) [...] Radio remains the dominant medium
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Ignorance is Bliss! Internet Usage and Perceptions of Corruption in a Panel of Developing Countries
International Journal of Communication, volume 8 (2014), pp. 2561-2577
"In a world of open-ended access to social media, the ability of governments to control information is slipping away. It is plausible in countries with limited Internet access for citizens to remain ignorant of the true amount of corruption. We built a cross-country panel of 124 developing nations t
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ICT Facts and Figures
Geneva: ITU (2014), 8 pp.
"The new figures show that, by the end of 2014, there will be almost 3 billion Internet users, two-thirds of them coming from the developing world, and that the number of mobile-broadband subscriptions will reach 2.3 billion globally. Fifty-five per cent of these subscriptions are expected to be in
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Baseline Study Report on Women Access to Information Through Mobile and Media Communication Services
Liberia Women Media Action Committee (LIWOMAC);United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) (2014), 38 pp.
"Out of a total 400 participants, 374 respondents, representing 93.5%, know how to use cell phones, while 26, representing 6.5%, have no knowledge whatsoever about cell phone usage. This finding is indicative of a relatively high knowledge of mobile phones utility. The result also indicates that Lon
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Supporting Internet Freedom: The Case of Iran
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 24 pp.
"The aim of this report is not to question the value of supporting Internet freedom in closed societies such as Iran. Rather, the intent is to provide a picture of how difficult it is to achieve progress in such countries. In times of tightening budgets for media development work, it is worth consid
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Cross-National Comparative Perspectives from the World Internet Project
In: The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies
William H. Dutton (ed.)
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), pp. 216-236
"This chapter reviews the diffusion, uses, and impacts of the Internet worldwide and over time. The World Internet Project has been intended to become the vehicle for tracking what happens as households and nations adopt and use the Internet. The study of the connection between the Internet and soci
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The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in International Perspective
London: Routledge (2013), 324 pp.
"This book provides an in-depth comparative analysis of inequality and the stratification of the digital sphere. Grounded in classical sociological theories of inequality, as well as empirical evidence, this book defines “the digital divide” as the unequal access and utility of internet communic
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The World in 2013: ICT Facts and Figures
Geneva: ITU (2013), 8 pp.
Media Use in the Middle East: An Eight-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar;Harris Interactive (2013), 97 pp.
"In assessing attitudes toward the media, one notable finding was a vote of confidence for improved quality of news media reporting between 2011 and 2013 with a majority of adults agreeing that it has improved in six of the eight countries surveyed. This optimism is also reflected in overall percept
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Connecting People for Development: Why Public Access ICTs Matter
Seattle: University of Washington Information School, Technology & Social Change Group (2013), 240 pp.
"Libraries, telecenters, and cybercafés play a critical role in extending the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to a diverse range of people worldwide. However, their ability to contribute to development agendas has come into question in recent times. The Global Impact S
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Belarus: Pulling the Plug. Policy Paper on Digital Challenges to Freedom of Expression in Belarus
London: Index on Censorship (2013), 24 pp.
