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Giga: Empowering communities in Asia and the Pacific through school connectivity

Geneva: ITU (2021), ix, 92 pp.

"Giga, a joint collaboration between ITU and UNICEF, is an initiative to connect every young person in the world to information, opportunity and choice. Devised before the onslaught on COVID-19, the project addresses the underlying inequities in access to the Internet. However, it is also a platform ... for creating the infrastructure necessary to provide digital connectivity to an entire country, for every community and for every citizen. With schools as a focal point, Giga seeks to build robust digital ecosystems, so communities everywhere can cope with shocks such as COVID-19 and ensure that no one is left behind. To achieve this goal, Giga builds on four pillars: map, finance, connect, empower. Map. Mapping of schools helps identify the connectivity problems and gauge the magnitude of the challenge in each country. Top-down and bottom-up approaches to mapping school connectivity support this endeavour [...] Connect. There are various infrastructure and technology solutions available that could bring affordable connectivity to the unconnected schools identified by the mapping exercise, including established technologies such as Wi-Fi, satellite, and fibre [...] Finance. The selection of appropriate financing mechanisms depends on the magnitude of the challenge. The costing analysis can only take place after mapping connectivity gaps and determining fit-for-purpose connectivity solutions. Government budgets or universal service funds (USFs) could address small- to medium-sized connectivity gaps [...] Empower. Bringing connectivity to schools will have a limited impact if e-learning solutions are not in place and if educators do not have the digital skills to empower learners. There are many case studies from Asia and the Pacific of initiatives that aim to empower digital learning [...] Giga has made significant progress since its launch. It is already active in 17 countries in three regions. Countries in Asia and the Pacific are next to join the Giga initiative. Several countries have expressed interest, including Bhutan, Pakistan, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Fiji. Each country has its own opportunities and challenges in terms of extending connectivity. The review of policies, regulatory environment, school connectivity initiatives and availability of connectivity data in potential Giga countries and the assessment of use cases strongly indicate that there is significant promise for the expansion of Giga in the region." (Executive summary, pages vi-vii) more

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Church Media in Papua New Guinea

Media Development Initiative (MDI);ABC International Development;PNGAus Partnership (2021), 7 pp.

"The Church Media briefing provides a summary of the role and importance of church media in Papua New Guinea (PNG), with a view towards outlining its role, importance, management, and operational policies. Dedicated focus is also directed to how church media address information gaps around COVID-19. ... more

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Cybersafety: The experiences of Ni-Vanuatu women and girls online

Port Vila, Vanuatu: CARE Vanuatu (2021), 42 pp.

"The Girls Online (GO!) Cybersafety project (GO! Cyber) aims to equip young women and girls with the skills and resources to participate meaningfully and safely in cyberspace. The project is implemented by CARE Vanuatu and Sista with the support of Australia’s Cyber and Critical Tech Cooperation P ... more

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South Malekula: A smart island of Vanuatu. Preliminary study of needs and priorities

Geneva: ITU (2021), vi, 21 pp.

"The study identified resource gaps relating to broadband connectivity, affordability, digital literacy and skills, and priority digital services. It identified the need for reliable and quality telecommunication network coverage; digital literacy and skills training (sales and marketing resources a ... more

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Charting hxstories in Samoan visual and digital art

Léuli Eshraghi

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 2, issue Supplement (2021), pp. 8.1-8.8

"In this article, addressing the absences of cultural memory from existing institutional archives is accounted for in the development of new curatorial display territories, both online and in the gallery. The imperatives to claim new digital territories as extensions of homeland territories are cont ... more

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Biodiversity data as public environmental media: Citizen science projects, national databases and data visualizations

Mitchell Whitelaw, Belinda Smaill

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 2, issue 1 (2021), pp. 79-99

"Through a combination of scientific and community activity, our environment is increasingly registered and documented as data. Given the expanding breadth of this digital domain, it is crucial that scholars consider the problems it presents as well as its affirmative potential. This article, arisin ... more

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Conflict, COVID-19, climate change: The emergence and possible evolution of peace journalism

Kylie ObiNavuku, Levi Obijiofor

Australian Journalism Review, volume 43, issue 2 (2021), pp. 211-225

"Peace journalism is a concept conventionally applied to reporting on violent conflict. In recent years, however, there has been increasing consideration of the possible links with other crucial subjects such as climate change and COVID-19 reporting. To date, such an extension of peace journalism ha ... more

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Saving Journalism: A Vision for the Post-Covid World

Anya Schiffrin, Hannah Clifford, Kylie Tumiatti

Washington, DC: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), 36 pp.

"Dozens of plans to help save journalism have emerged since the Covid-19 pandemic decimated media outlets around the world. This report summarizes some of the trends we’ve seen and evaluates where they currently stand. Most promising are Australia’s efforts to get Google and Facebook to pay for ... more

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Supplementing Emergency Warning Messsages to Encourage Readiness to Act: The Effect of Colour and Icons

Dominique A. Greer, Paula Dootson, Sophie A. Miller, Vivienne Tippett

Melbourne: Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC;Queensland University of Technology (2021), 52 pp.

"An online survey was conducted in which participants were exposed to one of 16 mock emergency warnings about either a bushfire or a riverine flood and were then asked a series of questions relating to their demographic characteristics, message comprehension and effectiveness, threat appraisal, copi ... more

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Cyber Capabilities and National Power: A Net Assessment

London et al.: International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (2021), 174 pp.

"This report sets out a new methodology for assessing cyber power, and then applies it to 15 states: Four members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance – the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia; Three cyber-capable allies of the Five Eyes states – France, Israel and Japan; F ... more

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A Year in the Life of Fiji’s Beleaguered National News Media: Insights from the 2016 State of the Media Report and Some Potential Implications of ‘Development Journalism’

Shailendra B. Singh

Journalism, volume 22, issue 2 (2021), pp. 553-570

"This case study on the state of the media in Fiji in 2016 highlights some problems of development journalism in the practical, applied sense. The case study looks at the changing nature of journalism in post-coup Fiji, reputed to have the South Pacific’s toughest media law. The analysis is conduc ... more

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Fiji Media, Language and Telecommunications Landscape Guide

Caroline Austin

Australian Aid (AusAID);CDAC Network (2021), 26 pp.

"This guide is a living document that is meant to be used as a starting point when planning and undertaking a campaign prior to (if possible) and during a disaster. It is intended to support the work of the Fiji government and the Fiji Communication and Community Engagement Working Group (CCEWG) in ... more

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The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2020
Quick Overview

Care International (2021), 25 pp.

"The analysis is based on online media coverage in five languages throughout the year. CARE sees a concerning trend of crises being neglected year after year. Six out of the ten crises are located on the African continent. The Central African Republic has appeared in the ranking for five consecutive ... more

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A Way Forward: Pacific Media Consultation Report 2021. Building the Capacity of Media Associations to Assess Regulatory Environments and Strengthen Professional Journalism in the Pacific

Kate Bice

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2021), 8 pp.

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Community Broadcasting Foundation Annual Report 2021

Parkville (AU): Community Broadcasting Foundation (2021), 51 pp.

"We are proud champions of community media – Australia’s largest independent media sector. Our funding helps connect people living in major cities, regional towns and remote communities across the country. It ensures the millions of people who tune in to their local community-owned and operated ... more

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Listening In: Community Media and the Politics of Listening
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Tanja Dreher, Poppy de Souza

Sydney: University of New South Wales, Media Future Hub (2021), 64 pp.

"'Listening in' analyses political voice and political listening against the backdrop of the media diversity debates. We focus on community media in Australia with its’ stated commitments to media diversity and to amplifying voices that are rarely heard in the mainstream. We ask to what extent the ... more

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Indigenous Digital Life: The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media

Bronwyn Carlson, Ryan Frazer

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 259 pp.

"Indigenous Digital Life offers a broad, wide-ranging account of how social media has become embedded in the lives of indigenous Australians. Centring on ten core themes-including identity, community, hate, desire and death-we seek to understand both the practice and broader politics of being Indige ... more

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Sound Communities in the Asia Pacific: Music, Media, and Technology

Lonán Ó Briain, Min-Yen Ong (eds.)

New York City: Bloomsbury Academic (2021), 272 pp.

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Freedom on the Net 2021: The Global Drive to Control Big Tech
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Washington, DC: Freedom House (2021), 41 pp.

"1. Global internet freedom declined for the 11th consecutive year. The greatest deteriorations were documented in Myanmar, Belarus, and Uganda, where state forces cracked down amid electoral and constitutional crises. Myanmar’s 14-point score decline is the largest registered since the Freedom on ... more

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Media Resource Manual

Ambrose Pereira, Abigail Seta, Nigel Akuani, Rosemary Yambune, Jessica Oa

Catholic Bishops Conference Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, Social Communications Commission (2021), 35 pp.

The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2020 Quick Overview

Listening In: Community Media and the Politics of Listening Top Insights

Freedom on the Net 2021: The Global Drive to Control Big Tech Top Insights

The 10 Most Under-Reported Humanitarian Crises of 2020
Quick Overview

Listening In: Community Media and the Politics of Listening
Top Insights

Freedom on the Net 2021: The Global Drive to Control Big Tech
Top Insights