mediadev library

Download (1)

WSIS+20: Reimagining horizons of dignity, equity and justice for our digital future

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2024), 98 pp.

Download (1)

Principles for community-centred connectivity initiatives

Alan Finlay, Carlos Rey-Moreno (eds.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Rhizomatica (2024), 6 pp.

Download (1)

A Framework for Developing Gender-Responsive Cybersecurity Policy: Assessment Tool

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2023), 40 pp.

"This assessment tool seeks to provide step-by-step advice and concrete recommendations for those wishing to develop a gender approach to cybersecurity policy. Building on APC’s previous work on a human rights approach to cybersecurity, online gender-based violence, and cybersecurity and gender, r ... more

Download (1)

Global Information Society Watch 2021-2022: Digital Futures for a Post-Pandemic World

Alan Finlay et al.

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2022), 268 pp.

"The pandemic made inequality, discrimination, exclusion and structural inequity more palpable, and rather than stagnating in indignation, it reactivated a sense of rebellion and contestation. The strength and sharpness with which we connect social justice, gender justice, environmental justice, eco ... more

Download (1)

Misinformation Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: From Laws and Regulations to Media Literacy

Peter Cunliffe-Jones, Assane Diagne, Alan Finlay, Sahite Gaye, Wallace Gichunge, Chido Onumah, Cornia Pretorius, Anya Schiffrin

London: University of Westminster Press (2021), 220 pp.

"The volume first examines the teaching of media literacy in state-run schools in seven Sub-Saharan African countries as of mid-2020, as relates to misinformation. It explains the limited elements of broad media and information literacy (MIL) included in the curricula in the seven countries studied ... more

Download (1)

Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Africa: A Rights-Based Survey of Legislation in Eight Countries

Hlengiwe Dube, Avani Singh (eds.)

African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition (2021), 372 pp.

"Of the eight countries surveyed here, only four have comprehensive data protection privacy acts in place: Kenya, South Africa, Togo and Uganda. But as these research reports suggest, this is not necessarily a strong indicator of whether a country is committed to privacy rights, or of the efficacy o ... more

Download (1)

Global Information Society Watch 2020. Technology, the Environment and a Sustainable World: Responses from the Global South
Top Insights

Alan Finlay et al.

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2020), 268 pp.

"The world is facing an unprecedented climate and environmental emergency. Scientists have identified human activity as primarily responsible for the climate crisis, which together with rampant environmental pollution, and the unbridled activities of the extractive and agricultural industries, pose ... more

Download (1)

Mapping Journalism Training Centres in Sub-Saharan Africa

Alan Finlay

Kalmar; Johannesburg: Fojo Media Institute; Wits Journalism Programme University of the Witwatersrand (2020), 115 pp.

"This report offers an overview of journalism training and education centres in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on 10 countries. Although the primary emphasis of this research was on institutions such as universities, schools, colleges and institutes, we took a loose definition of ‘centres’ to incl ... more

Download (1)

Cartographie des centres de formation en journalisme d'Afrique Subsaharienne
Top Insights

Alan Finlay

Kalmar (SE): Fojo Media Institute (2020), 57 pp.

External Link (11)

Continuing the Conversation: Lessons from APC's Subgranting Experience

Alan Finlay

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2020), 52 pp.

"Subgranting is a readily accessible source of short- to medium-term financial support for organisations. It offers a flexibility in disbursing funds that is not often found in donors. It catalyses change in organisations. It can serve as “seed funding”, allowing new organisations to become know ... n in an advocacy space. It allows for experimentation, innovation, and unpredictability. It allows organisations to strengthen the work they are already doing, and empowers them to seek funding elsewhere based on new experiences and knowledge. • Transparency in deciding how funds are disbursed is essential. APC has tried different models for subgranting, including a centralised decision-making model, which offers autonomy for member organisations to decide on a project’s focus within a broad framework of shared objectives; a decentralised model with a thematic focus, working with members and new partners; and a collective decision-making model, that is issue based, working with a network of like-minded activists. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, and the most appropriate mechanisms for transparency might depend on the size of the project or initiative, and the overall objectives of the subgranting work. • Clear communication is necessary for meeting concrete deliverables, for growing a community or network, and for transparency. Make sure meanings are aligned and shared, even in like-minded networks. This streamlines the process, avoids disappointment, and ensures clearer outcomes. • Subgranting can be used effectively for outreach to meet and work with new organisations at the local level, growing a network or membership base, and increasing the profile of an organisation at the grassroots level. • Thematically focused or issue-based subgranting programmes can encourage a greater level of interaction between organisations, and allow cross-border advocacy with the potential of amplifying advocacy impact. However, collaboration needs to be created – it does not happen on its own. It requires processes and specific considerations, such as the type of decision-making structure to follow, thatcreate the context for cooperation to happen." (Key lessons from APC’s subgranting work, pgae 50) more

Download (0)

State of the Newsroom 2017: Fakers and Makers

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Johannesburg: Wits Journalism University of the Witwatersrand (2018), iv, 60 pp.

"The fourth annual report looks at jobs in the newsroom, fake news and fact-checking journalism, and highlights the problem of threats to media freedom in South Africa. In a survey conducted across a range of newsrooms both big and small, it found that young, black women journalists are more likely ... more

Download (1)

Action Steps: A Decade of Civil Society Advocacy in the Information Society. A Baseline Review of the Global Information Society Watch Country Reports (2007-2017)

Alan Finlay

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 80 pp.

"This review looks back over 11 years of civil society advocacy in the information society – a total of 510 country reports published in Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) from 2007 to 2017. It covers a period of important global shifts, from the exponential growth and influence of social ... more

Download (1)

Communication Rights Ten Years After the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS): Civil Society Perceptions

Alan Finlay

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2013), 32 pp.

"This report responds to the opportunity provided by the WSIS+10 review which will culminate in 2015. Its purpose is to collate civil society perceptions of the changes that have taken place over the last ten years since the WSIS Declaration of Principles was adopted in 2003. The results are being u ... more

External Link (16)

Google Scholar (13)

WorldCat (12)

Reporting China in Africa

African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 3 (2013), pp. 1-160

Download (1)

Global Information Society Watch 2010: Focus on ICTs and Environmental Sustainability

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2010), 244 pp.

Download (1)

Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2009), 231 pp.

"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on ... more

Download (0)

Global Information Society Watch 2008: Focus on Access to Infrastructure

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos; Third World Institute (ITeM) (2008), 204 pp.

Download (1)

Assessing the Effectiveness of the Use of IDRC Research Results in the Acacia / Connectivety Africa Programmes: Creating a Learning Environment for Future Research Dissemination

Catherine N. Adeya-Weya, Alan Finlay, Leila Hassanin, Olivier Sagna

Tina James (ed.)

Dakar: International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), ix, 162 pp.

Global Information Society Watch 2020. Technology, the Environment and a Sustainable World: Responses from the Global South Top Insights

Cartographie des centres de formation en journalisme d'Afrique Subsaharienne Top Insights

Global Information Society Watch 2020. Technology, the Environment and a Sustainable World: Responses from the Global South
Top Insights

Cartographie des centres de formation en journalisme d'Afrique Subsaharienne
Top Insights