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Meaningful connectivity for rural communities: geographic barriers & policy strategies for digital inclusion

Ana María Rodríguez Pulgarín; Teddy Woodhouse

Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation (2022), 23 pp.

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"This report details the urban-rural connectivity gap in nine low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and what that means for their potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals ... Across all nine countries [Colombia, India, Indonesia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Mozambique, South Afri... more

Let free media thrive: selected stories of 4 years of impact of the multi-donor programme on freedom of expression and safety of journalists (2018-2021)

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 18 pp.

"The stories presented here are some examples of how the Multi-Donor Programme for Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) works to provide countries and their populations with the necessary tools to nurture a free and independent media. This includes promoting the adoption of policies... more

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Digital inequality beyond the digital divide: conceptualizing adverse digital incorporation in the global South

Richard Heeks

Information technology for development, volume (2022), 17 pp.

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"Digital systems are significantly associated with inequality in the global South. That association has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or related terminologies whose core conceptualization is the exclusion of some groups from the benefits of digital systems. However, wi... more

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Global findings Bertelsmann Transformation Index BTI 2022

Hauke Hartmann; Peter Thiery

Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung (2022), 26 pp.

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"As in previous years, the BTI 2022 has identified considerable regression worldwide with regard to trans-formation processes. The guiding principles of democracy and the market economy have been subjected to intense pressure and are being challenged by corrupt elites, illiberal populism and authori... more

Affordability report 2021: a new strategy for universal access

Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation (2021), 28 pp.

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"This report is the eighth edition of the Affordability Report. Released annually by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), the report summarises the state of internet affordability around the world and of the policies and regulations that affect it ... The latest update of the Affordability D... more

Let free media thrive: stories of impact of the multi-donor programme on freedom of expression and safety of journalists

Paris: UNESCO (2021), 18 pp.

"The collection of stories presented here aims to highlight the impact of the MDP's (Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists) MDP’s actions over the course of this challenging year. Through testimonies from beneficiaries and partners who aspire to improve freedom o... more

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Visualität und Weltpolitik: Praktiken des Zeigens und Sehens in den Internationalen Beziehungen

Gabi Schlag; Axel Heck (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), xii, 347 pp.

ISBN 978-3-658-29970-5 (pbk); 978-3-658-29971-2 (pdf)

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The decolonial turn in media studies in Africa and the Global South

Last Moyo

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvi, 308 pp.

ISBN 978-3-030-52832-4 (ebook); 978-3-030-52831-7 (print); 978-3-030-52833-1 (print); 978-3-030-52834-8 (print)

"This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South. Last Moyo argues that the academic project in African Media Studies and other non-Western regions continues to be shaped by Western modernity's histo... more

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Digital inequalities in the Global South

Massimo Ragnedda; Anna Gladkova (eds.)

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, ... more

Dialling in the law: a comparative assessment of jurisprudence on internet shutdowns

Aayush Rathi; Arindrajit Basu

Association for Progressive Communication (APC); Cyrilla (2020), 23 pp.

ISBN 978-92-95113-31-2 CC BY-NC-SA

"This report and the associated workbook seeks to contribute to the discourse in three ways. First, we hope to open an extensible documentation and overview of practices, experiences, and resources on the legitimisation of, and resistance to, state-backed internet shutdowns across the world. Second,... more

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Developing cultural industries: learning from the palimpsest of practice

Christiaan De Beukelaer

Amsterdam: European Cultural Foundation (2015), 192 pp., abbrev. p.15-17, bibliogr. p.163

"Christiaan scrutinizes existing concepts of cultural and creative industries, as applied in public policies in African countries and largely inluenced by programmes of intergovernmental development agencies. He then searches for empirical evidence of their true value for human development. He looks... more

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Bits and atoms: information and communication technology in areas of limited statehood

Steven Livingston; Gregor Walter-Drop (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), xi, 195 pp., bibliogr. p.173-185, index

ISBN 978-0-19-994161-2

"Contributors to the volume explore various questions concerning the opportunities and constraints for governance associated with the startling growth in digital technologies in the Global South. In areas of limited statehood, places where the reach of the state is limited and weak, can mobile phone... more

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Working towards a deeper understanding of digital safety for children and young people in developing nations

Urs Gasser; Colin Maclay; John Palfrey

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... more

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Handbook of research on overcoming digital divides: constructing an equitable and competitive information society

Enrico Ferro (ed.)

Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2010), xxxvi, 737 pp., illustr.

ISBN 978-1-60566-700-3 (ebook); 978-1-60566-699-0 (print)

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Media law assistance: establishing an enabling environment for free and independent media to flourish

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2007), 23 pp.

"The working group considered how international media development programs—particularly those that are U.S.-supported—have succeeded or failed, discussed best practices, and made recommendations. Journalist Ann McFeatters served as the rapporteur for the meeting. The discussion focused on severa... more