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Featured
Free Access
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Key Guidance
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Quick Overview
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Top Insights
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Telecommunication Infrastructure
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Digital Inclusion
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ICT Policies
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Mobile Phone Use
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Freedom of Expression Online, Internet Freedom
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ICT Industries & Markets
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Electronic Commerce
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Digital Media Markets
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Digital Economies & Markets
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Gender and ICTs / Internet
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ICT Development Assistance
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
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Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
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ICT Indicators
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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Telecommunication Law, Regulation & Policies
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Mobile Phone Use: Women
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ICTs and Development
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Access to Media & Information
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Telecommunications
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Internet & Social Media Use: Women
8
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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Media Use, Media Consumption
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Community Telecommunication Networks
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Internet
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Internet Markets
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Economic Development: Role of ICTs & Media
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ICTs and Poverty Reduction
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Mobile Phone Markets
6
Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Browser
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Digital Media Landscapes
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Digital Market Concentration
5
Search Engines
5
Social Media
5
ICT Regulation
5
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
5
Access to Media & Information: Disadvantaged Groups and Minorities
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
4
Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
4
Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Rural Communication for Development
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Facebook
4
Information Society
4
Schools
4
COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
4
Access to Media & Information: Indigenous Populations
3
Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
3
Audiences & Users
3
Mobile Phone Use: Migrants & Refugees
3
Communication Rights
3
Freedom of Expression
3
Citizen Journalism, Community Journalism
3
Free Basics (Facebook Internet Access Programme)
3
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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WLAN Wireless Internet Access
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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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Community Radios
2
Nonprofit Organizations, NGOs
2
Cybercrimes
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Email, Electronic Mail
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Internet and Development
2
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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Education (General)
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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
2
Communication & Media Indicators
2
Mobile Phones in Rural Areas
2
COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Social Development
2
Technologies, Information & Communication Technologies
2
Internet Bandwith, Broadband & Backbone Networks
2
Telecommunication Industries & Markets
2
Advocacy & Empowerment: Girls
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Empowerment
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Mobile Phone Advocacy & Campaigns
1
Audience Research Methods
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Health Information Access & Use
1
Media Use: Women, Female Media Audiences
1
Radio Use: Women
1
Radio Consumption, Radio Use, Radio Audiences
1
Television Consumption, Televison Use, Television Audiences
1
Authoritarian Regimes: Media Systems & Landscapes
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Independent & Oppositional Media in Authoritarian Regimes
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Campaigning: Experiences
1
Child Abuse: Digital Media
1
Girls and Media
1
Christian Communication Ethics, Christian Media Ethics
1
Data Protection: Law & Regulation
1
Digital Rights
1
Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
1
Media Freedom, Press Freedom
1
Community Informatics
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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
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Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Digital Ethics, AI Ethics, Social Media Ethics, Data & Information Ethics
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Internet and Politics
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Internet and Society / Social Change
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Internet Shutdowns
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Net Neutrality
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Online Communication
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Digital Journalism, Online Journalism
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Political Blogging
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Online News
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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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Trust Building in Health & Emergency Communication
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Documentation Systems
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Information Management
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Libraries
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Media Viability & Financial Sustainability
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Poverty & Poverty Reduction
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Economic Policies
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Energy Supply, Electricity
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Industries, Industrial Development
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Labour, Labour Markets, Labour Laws, Working Conditions
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Livelihoods
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Market Liberalization, Economic Liberalization
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Traffic & Transport Infrastructure
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Education and Communication / Media
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Learning Processes
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Lifelong Learning
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Natural Resources
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Sustainable Development
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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Defamation of Religion (Blasphemy)
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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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Gender Relations
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Media Assistance: Gender Focus
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Health Data
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HIV / AIDS Communication
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HIV / AIDS (General)
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Indigenous Communication
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Indigenous Radio Broadcasting
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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
1
Corruption Reporting & Role of Media in Curbing Corruption
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Working Conditions of Journalists & Media Personnel
1
Local Communication & Media
1
Media Assistance
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Media Development Indicators
1
Diversity & Pluralism in Media / Communication
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Diffusion of Innovations
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Information Ecosystems
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Information Exchange
1
Digital Literacy: Youth
1
Small States: Media Systems & Media Landscapes
1
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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Democracy / Democratization and Media
1
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
1
Sustainability
1
Public Service Broadcasting
1
Radio Debates, Radio Talk Shows, Call-In Radio Programmes
1
Radio Engineering & Technologies
1
Manipulation
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Uses-And-Gratifications Approach
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Research in Media & Communication
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Communication Research Design
1
Comparative Approaches & Methods in Communication Research
1
Human Development Index (HDI)
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Sampling (Survey Methodologies, Statistics)
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Survey Methods
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Rural Communication, Media in Rural Areas
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Social Security
1
Inequalities
1
Antennas
1
Informatics
1
Radio Broadcasting Equipment & Technologies
1
Short Wave Radio (SW)
1
Radio Production Equipment & Technologies
1
Software
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Mobile & Wireless Communications Technologies
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Mobile Phone Apps
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Remote Work, Teleworking, Working from Home
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Telecommunication Licensing
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Telephone
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Urban Areas
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Design & Layout
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Language
Document type
Countries / Regions
Authors & Publishers
Media focus
Publication Years
Methods applied
Journals
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Universal Service and Access Funds: An Untapped Resource to Close the Gender Digital Divide
Washington, DC: World Wide Web Foundation (2018), 19 pp.
"Over 68% of countries in Africa have a Universal Service and Access Fund (USAF) in place; 62% of these funds are active. Just 3 of the 37 countries with USAFs have universal access policies that explicitly aim to connect women and girls through the fund. Just 23 African countries openly publish det
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Madagascar 2018: Mass media, communication et internet
Institut National de la Statistique (INSTAT) (2018), 6 pp.
Digital Resistance in the Middle East: New Media Activism in Everyday Life
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), xi, 194 pp.
"This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens’ lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred. Using ethnographic evidence and taking a comparative perspective, it presents a grass roots look at how new media use f
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
Top Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.
"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice
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Measuring the Information Society Report 2017. Vol.1
Geneva: ITU (2017), xi, 154 pp.
Beyond Access: Addressing Digital Inequality in Africa
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2017), 17 pp.
"Although most Africans remain disconnected from the Internet, and access to broadband services continues to be a central policy issue, the increased availability of broadband services alone will not reduce digital inequality on the continent. While the provision of access to the Internet remains a
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Afghan Information Ecosystems: A Design Research Approach
Internews; Sayara Research (2017), 82 pp.
"Afghanistan has made great strides in establishing media and communications outlets. However, very little is known about the ways in which Afghans actually engage in information exchange. To inform work with the media and effectively enhance access to information in Afghanistan, Internews commissio
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Free Basics in Real Life: Six Case Studies on Facebook’s Internet “on Ramp” Initiative from Africa, Asia and Latin America
Amsterdam: Global Voices (2017), 35 pp.
According to the executive summary "Facebook’s Free Basics program aims to help bridge the digital divide through a mobile-based platform that allows users to connect to a handful of online services free of charge [...] This paper highlights the following findings: Language: Free Basics does not m
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Media Use in the Middle East: A Seven-Nation Survey
Top Insights
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Harris Interactive (2017), 139 pp.
"Compared to five years ago, internet penetration rose in all six countries surveyed and most dramatically in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Smartphone ownership tracks closely with internet use in the six surveyed countries. Nearly all nationals in Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE own a sma
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Compromising Connectivity: Information Dynamics Between the State and Society in a Digitizing North Korea
Washington, DC: Intermedia (2017), 97 pp.
"The information and media environment in North Korea continues to evolve quickly. This report demonstrates that the depth and diversity of information and media access channels have grown markedly since the release of A Quiet Opening in 2012. More North Koreans have greater access to a larger varie
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Ascendant India, Digital India: How Net Neutrality Advocates Defeated Facebook’s Free Basics
Media, Culture & Society, volume 40, issue 3 (2017), pp. 415-431
"This article analyzes the 2015 campaign by net neutrality advocates against Facebook’s Free Basics service in India, and argues that their victory can be best understood by analyzing their privileged place in an India that imagines itself high tech and global. The advocates, predominantly tech wo
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Bridging the Digital Divide in Nigeria: A Case Study of ICT Access and Usage in Lagos Metropolis
Leicester: Master of Arts Thesis Department of Media and Communication University of Leicester (2017), 65 pp.
"This research assesses the access and usage of ICT (mobile and smart phones, personal computer, tablets and ipads) and internet by residents of Lagos in Nigeria, with emphasis on the availability and use of ICT for socioeconomic and political growth. ICT access and usage is indispensable in today's
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Redes comunitarias en América Latina: Desafíos, regulaciones y soluciones
Internet Society; Association for Progressive Communications (APC); FGV Direito Rio (2017), 45, xxviii pp.
"[...] El objetivo de este estudio no es solamente destacar el potencial de las redes comunitarias en términos de expansión de conectividad y sus externalidades positivas en materia social, cultural y económica; sino también destacar los elementos regulatorios que podrían optimizar su desarroll
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Internet Use Barriers and User Strategies: Perspectives from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Rwanda
Research ICT Africa; Mozilla Foundation (2017), 40 pp.
"The study tested the following hypotheses: the use of subsidised services only forms part of data use; people do not move beyond the use of subsidised services; using the internet first through subsidised services leaves people with less of an understanding of the Internet. Using subsidised data fo
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Internet: Smarte neue Welt
welt-sichten, issue 12 (2017), pp. 12-42
"Digitale Medien verbreiten sich über die Welt: Auch in Madagaskar verwenden Kinder Handys. In Kenia nutzt die Regierungspartei in Wahlkämpfen bereits die gleichen Datenanalysen, die in den USA Donald Trump geholfen haben, Präsident zu werden. Und in der Wirtschaft bewirken Daten und Internet-Pla
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Media Freedom on the Internet: An OSCE Guidebook
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2016), 110 pp.
Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
Top Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2016), 1021 pp.
"Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during antigovernment protests. Public-facing social media platforms like Fac
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Last Mile Connectivity in Emerging Markets
Developing Telecoms (2016), 28 pp.
"This report focuses on the difficulties faced by operators in emerging markets looking to deliver data bandwidth cost effectively to challenging locations, including remote communities and busy cities. While the challenges are myriad, improvements in technology are increasingly making the business
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Digital Discrimination: Political Bias in Internet Service Provision Across Ethnic Groups
Science, volume 353, issue 6304 (2016), pp. 1151-1155
"The global expansion of the Internet is frequently associated with increased government transparency, political rights, and democracy. However, this assumption depends on marginalized groups getting access in the first place. Here we document a strong and persistent political bias in the allocation
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Bolivia digital: 15 miradas acerca de internet y sociedad en Bolivia
La Paz: Vicepresidencia del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia; Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) (2016), 536 pp.
