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The price of the world in your pocket: A price only some can afford. 2024 Device Pricing
Alexandria, VA: Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (2024), 9 pp.
"The median price for a smartphone globally is US$92.59. The lowest regional median price is in Africa, at $60.23, while the highest is $101.88 in the Americas. The median global affordability (defined as price as a percentage of average monthly income) for a smartphone is 11%. Europe has the greate
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Digitalization in China: Who’s left behind?
Information, Communication & Society, volume 27, issue 6 (2024), pp. 1247-1265
"In an age of digitalization, who still refuses to use digital technology? Drawing on nationally-representative Chinese General Social Survey data, this article finds that about half of Chinese households do not actively use the Internet or epayment systems, despite their ubiquity. This article esti
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United Nations Activities on Artificial Intelligence (AI) 2023
Geneva: ITU (2024), xviii, 366 pp.
Challenge-Check
Act On!; JFF Institut für Medienpädagogik (2024), 2 pp.
Feel the influence
Act On!; JFF Institut für Medienpädagogik (2024), 2 pp.
Exploraciones posthumanas: Del algoritmo al robot plantoide
Buenos Aires: Teseo (2024), 194 pp.
"Este libro es el resultado de un trabajo colectivo llevado a cabo por cuatro filósofos que habitan diferentes puntos de Latinoamérica, reunidos a partir de su interés por el campo de tensiones que se despliega entre las tradiciones humanistas y las perspectivas poshumanistas. Los capítulos prob
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Cidadania digital e culturas do contemporâneo
Coimbra: Grácio Editor (2024), 187 pp.
Le prix des perturbations: Évaluation de l’impact économique des coupures d’Internet au Sénégal en 2023
Internews (2024), 25 pp.
"Ce rapport a constaté une baisse vertigineuse de 1,3 point de pourcentage du produit intérieur brut (PIB) global associé aux coupures d’Internet en juin 2023. Cela se traduit grosso modto par une perte de 76,8 millions de dollars américains (46,86 milliards de francs CFA). Cette perte a princ
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Artificial intelligence as planetary assemblages of coloniality: The new power architecture driving a tiered global data economy
Big Data & Society, issue October–December (2024), 7 pp.
"We present a framework for viewing artificial intelligence (AI) as planetary assemblages of coloniality that reproduce dependencies in how it co-constitutes and structures a tiered global data economy. We use assemblage thinking to map the coloniality of power to demonstrate how AI stratifies acros
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Designing for justice in freelancing: Testing platform interventions to minimise discrimination in online labour markets
Big Data & Society (2024), 19 pp.
"Online labour markets (OLMs) are a vital source of income for globally diverse and dispersed freelancers. Despite their promise of neutrality, OLMs are known to perpetuate hiring discrimination, vested in how OLMs are designed and what kinds of interactions they enable between freelancers and hirer
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Measuring Digital Development. Facts and Figures: Focus on Small Island Developing States
Deep Insights
Geneva: ITU (2024), v, 33 pp.
"In this special edition of ITU's Facts and Figures series, we explore the impressive progress and ongoing obstacles Small Island Developing States (SIDS) encounter amid the digital revolution. On the occasion of the fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4), our goal
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Using social media for agricultural information dissemination: The role of informant-recipient homogeneity
Journal of Developpment Effectiveness (2024), 28 pp.
"This study uses a randomised experiment targeting wheat producers in Ethiopia to examine the impact of providing market price information through Facebook on farmers’ sales behaviour. To identify the effect of informant homogeneity, we distinguished the informants’ nationality as either Ethiopi
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User empowerment through Media and Information Literacy responses to the evolution of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI)
Paris: UNESCO (2024), 16 pp.
"The goal of this policy brief is to demonstrate how stakeholders can apply the lens of Media and Information Literacy for all to Artificial Intelligence/Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI/GAI) to address its risks and opportunities in the information and digital ecologies. A special focus is on
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Assessing the digital readiness and communication ecosystem of rural youth: Methodological guidelines
Rome: FAO (2024), vi, 92 pp.
Conjuring a Blockchain Pilot: Ignorance and Innovation in Humanitarian Aid
Geopolitics (2024), 28 pp.
"When aid professionals adopt high tech pilot projects, ignorance, blind faith, misplaced trust, and authentic expertise all come into play. Based on ethnographic research in Jordan, I examine how a refugee aid organisation produces and applies a blockchain pilot. Innovative pilots help internationa
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Decoding Social Media’s Role in Taliban 2.0 and its Implications for Afghan Youth
Honolulu: East-West Center (2024), 8 pp.
"The Taliban retook control of Afghanistan on Aug. 15, 2021 after two decades of fighting on the ground and manipulating narratives online, particularly on social media. Their tactical use of social media was more evident in 2021 when they were advancing their territorial gains and posting on social
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The Global E-Waste Monitor 2024
Deep Insights
Bonn; Geneva: United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR); ITU (2024), 148 pp.
In 2022, a record 62 billion kg of e-waste was generated globally (equivalent to an average of 7.8 kg per capita per year); 22.3 per cent of this e-waste mass was documented as formally collected and recycled in an environmentally sound manner. In 2010, the world generated 34 billion kg of e-waste,
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Smarter, greener extractivism: Digital infrastructures and the harnessing of new resources
Information, Communication & Society (2024), 20 pp.
"The past several years have seen increased scholarly attention to the concept of ‘extraction’ and ‘extractivism’ as critical frameworks in the humanities and social sciences. These are not only concepts and processes through which to understand material extraction but also expanded formatio
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"The main conclusions drawn from the analysis of online opinions during natural disasters in Africa are highlighted below:
● Climate change is one of the main concerns of the African population in recent years. This climate problem is considered to be causing more and greater natural disasters on
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