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Data Governance in Zimbabwe: Opportunities and Challenges
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2023), 12 pp.
"Recent legislation on data linking national security and cybersecurity undermines the creation of a trustworthy data environment. Restrictions on information flows have immediate and medium-term costs to digital economic activity, which in turn have knock-on effects for the prospect of any subseque
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Online Repression and Tactical Evasion: Evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger Protests in Egypt
Democratization, volume 30, issue 2 (2023), pp. 325-345
"Following the 2011 Arab Spring, autocrats have sought to limit citizens’ ability to publicize offline protests over social media. In this article, we explore how users adjust to these restrictions. To do so, we analyse 33 million tweets sent from Egypt during the “Day of Anger” protests in Se
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Democratizing Digital: Landscape Assessment
Digital Frontiers; USAID (2023), 57 pp.
Navigating Freedom: Making Sense of Lebanon's Digital Discourse on Free Expression
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2023), 13 pp.
Digital constitutionalism: The role of internet bills of rights
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xii, 242 pp.
"Investigating the impact of digital technology on contemporary constitutionalism, this book offers an overview of the transformations that are currently occurring at constitutional level, highlighting their link with ongoing societal changes. It reconstructs the multiple ways in which constitutiona
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Country Report: Biometric Digital Identity Programs and Independent Journalism in Uganda
African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2023), 28 pp.
Restrictions on Internet Freedoms: Recommendations for Thai Policy-Makers and Civil Society
Bangkok: Asia Centre (2023), 16 pp.
A Global Digital Compact: An Open, Free and Secure Digital Future for All
United Nations (2023), 31 pp.
Freedom on the Net 2023: The Repressive Power of Artificial Intelligence
Washington, DC: Freedomhouse (2023), 45 pp.
"1. Global internet freedom declined for the 13th consecutive year. Digital repression intensified in Iran, home to this year’s worst decline, as authorities shut down internet service, blocked WhatsApp and Instagram, and increased surveillance in a bid to quell antigovernment protests. Myanmar ca
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Case law on content moderation and freedom of expression
New York: Global Freedom of Expression Columbia University (2023), 23 pp.
Information Ecosystem Assessment (IEA) on the Impact of Cyber Security Cybercrime Laws enacted by Southern Africa Governments on Media Freedom and Digital Rights
Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA); Internews; USAID (2023), 633 pp.
"In 2023, Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA) through its consortium partner, Internews, undertook the most comprehensive review yet of laws affecting media practice and the freedom of expression, including cyber laws, penal codes, constitutions and acts of parliament, in the sixteen Souther
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Digital Spaces, Rights and Responsibilities: Towards a Duty of Care Model in Southern Africa
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2023), 14 pp.
"In this article, the intersection between digital spaces, rights, and responsibilities in an interconnected platformising world is highlighted. Besides unpacking structural harms and unfreedoms accompanying this platformisation, it also proposes a duty of care model rooted in the African philosophy
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At the confluence of digital rights and climate & environmental justice: A landscape review
The Engine Room (2022), 90 pp.
Kazakhstan’s Bloody January: Digital Repression on the “New Silk Road”
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2022), 24 pp.
"In January 2022, Kazakhstan’s government shut down internet access for several days while enacting a violent crackdown on initially peaceful protests triggered by hikes in fuel prices. This policy brief examines Kazakhstan’s internet and media landscape, the (re)actions of civil society and the
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Guía para seguir comunicándonos ante bloqueos de internet
Digital Defenders Partnership (2022), 62 pp.
Derechos fundamentales en la nueva constitución para la era digital: Percepciones de la ciudadanía
Derechos Digitales (2022), 50 pp.
¿Quién defiende tus datos?
Derechos Digitales (2022), 86 pp.
How Big Data Can Bolster Autocratic Legitimacy (Via the Rhetoric of Safety and Convenience)
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2022), 14 pp.
"This Policy Brief examines the different ways in which big data collection serves autocratic agendas by hiding the oppressive potential of heightened surveillance through promises of enhanced safety, convenience, and modernisation. Political actors with autocratic agendas can package their governan
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Internet Freedoms in Thailand
Bangkog: Asia Centre (2022), iv, 29 pp.
Government Internet Shutdowns Are Changing: How Should Citizens and Democracies Respond?
Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2022), 45 pp.
"The most promising strategies to help citizens circumvent internet shutdowns do not involve deploying satellite internet devices or floating balloons. Instead, simpler solutions, such as encouraging citizens to download anticensorship apps or software ahead of time, are much more useful. But they d
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