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Hate Network: Hate Speech on Social Media Platforms in the Palestinian Context and its Impact on Their Digital Rights
Arab Center for Social Media Advancement (2021), 46 pp.
Public Participation: An Assessment of Recent ICT Policy Making Processes in Kenya
KICTANet (2021), 29 pp.
"This report assesses the extent to which the public participated in three recent ICT policy and law-making processes. These include the National Information Communications and Technology (ICT) Policy, 2019, the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act, 2018, and the Data Protection Act, 2019 [...] Gener
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Mapping and Analysis of Privacy Laws and Policies in Africa: Summary Report
CIPESA (2021), 12 pp.
Digital Rights in Zimbabwe, UPR Submission, Session 40
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2021), 10 pp.
¿Quién gobierna internet?
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 42 pp.
Digital Rights in Closing Civic Space: Lessons from Ten African Countries
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2021), 251 pp.
Watching the Watchmen: Content Moderation, Governance, and Freedom of Expression
London: Article 19 (2021), 86 pp.
Taming Big Tech: A Pro-Competitive Solution to Protect Free Expression
London: Article 19 (2021), 42 pp.
"In this policy, ARTICLE 19 outlines how open markets, competition, and users’ empowerment can help address current freedom of expression challenges in online content curation. We offer practical solutions on how to achieve these objectives through a pro-competitive instrument: the unbundling of t
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Regulating Disinformation in Europe: Implications for Speech and Privacy
UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law, volume 6 (2021), pp. 9-36
"This article examines the ongoing dynamics in the regulation of disinformation in Europe, focusing on the intersection between the right to freedom of expression and the right to privacy. Importantly, there has been a recent wave of regulatory measures and other forms of pressure on online platform
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Online surveillance and the repressive Press Council Bill 2018. A two-pronged approach to media self-censorship in Nigeria
In: Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship
Ingrid Fadnes, Anna Grøndahl Larsen, Roy Krøvel (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), pp. 80-99
"This chapter examines the perceptions of Nigerian journalists towards the Nigerian Press Council Bill 2018 and the governments’ online surveillance. The study employs survey and interview methods: 217 Nigerian media practitioners selected from print and online media responded to the questionnaire
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Perspektiven digitaler Governance in China: Zwischen Verbesserung sozialer Teilhabe und politischer Kontrolle
Hanns Seidel Stiftung (2020), 40 pp.
The Last-mile Internet Connectivity Solutions Guide: Sustainable Connectivity Options for Unconnected Sites
Geneva: ITU (2020), xviii, 137 pp.
"There are several overarching reasons why billions of people remain offline, ranging from a lack of network infrastructure availability and affordable Internet services to gaps in skills and ability, the availability and cost of personal devices, and a perceived lack of relevancy. For example, over
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Rural Broadband Policy Framework: Connecting the Unconnected. A Rural Broadband Policy Framework providing guidance to address the 'Digital Divide'
Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); CIPESA (2020), 15 pp.
"The internet has revolutionised the way that many of us live our lives, enabling new forms of communication, fostering online communities, fuelling economic growth, and facilitating all manner of entertainment. Yet about half of the world’s population remains offline, and only about 19% of the Le
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Online Hate Speech: Introduction Into Motivational Causes, Effects and Regulatory Contexts
Key Guidance
DeTACT; Media Diversity Institute (2020), 71 pp.
Defending freedom of expression: Fake news laws in East and Southeast Asia
Top Insights
Bangkog; Manila: Asia Centre; Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD). (2020), 61 pp.
"This report compares the impact of legislation in countries with multiparty legislatures and independent government institutions, and countries with one dominant political force and an absence of independent national institutions. It finds that in the former countries, provisions are included to sa
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Regulación para combatir la desinformación: Estudio de ocho casos internacionales y recomendaciones para un enfoque democrático
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2020), 32 pp.
"El análisis revela los desafíos al proceso de construcción de soluciones reguladoras que protejan derechos y sean efectivas para promover el acceso a información confiable. La desinformación está profundamente entrelazada con los procesos políticos y sociales, y no es posible pensar en soluc
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Secuencia e hitos de la polémica ley de las TIC en Colombia
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2020), 9 pp.
"La ley TIC (tecnologías de la información y las comunicaciones) 1978, aprobada en julio de 2019 por el Congreso de la República de Colombia, es fruto de numerosas polémicas que desencadenaron movilizaciones, debates ciudadanos y cuestionamientos públicos. ¿Cuáles fueron sus ejes de discusió
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Analysis of Ethiopia’s Hate Speech and Disinformation Prevention and Suppression Proclamation No.1185/2020
Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 4 pp.
"Although the Proclamation has good intentions of curbing hate speech in Ethiopia, it fundamentally restricts freedom of expression online and the right to information. Further, the proclamation has a chilling effect on online and offline rights, which could lead to self-censorship. For instance, jo
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Who Moderates the Social Media Giants? A Call to End Outsourcing
New York: New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights (2020), 28 pp.
"Content moderation—the process of deciding what stays online and what gets taken down— is an indispensable aspect of the social media industry. Without it, online platforms would be inundated not just by spam, but by personal bullying, neo-Nazi screeds, terrorist beheadings, and child sexual ab
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Discurso de odio en América Latina: Tendencias de regulación, rol de los intermediarios y riesgos para la libertad de expresión
Santiago de Chile: Derechos Digitales (2020), 24 pp.
"En gran parte de América Latina existen normas que buscan regular los actos de discurso, ya sea a través de normativas contra el discurso de odio, o mediante la penalización de los “delitos de honor” (cuyo traslado al ámbito civil y la correspondiente despenalización, dicho sea de paso, es
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