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Unabhängige Expertenkommission „Kinder- und Jugendschutz in der digitalen Welt“: Bestandsaufnahme
Berlin: Bundesministerium für Bildung, Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (2026), 128 pp.
"Diese Bestandsaufnahme ist in der ersten Arbeitsphase der Unabhängigen Expertenkommission „Kinder- und Jugendschutz in der digitalen Welt“, zwischen Oktober 2025 und Februar 2026, von den 18 Mitgliedern der Kommission verfasst worden. Die Kommission hat drei Arbeitsgruppen gebildet, die jeweil
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Digital Media Shadowing Democracy: Technology, Communication, and Power
Gothenburg: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg (2026), 282 pp.
"The book’s message is brief: Liberal democracies are at risk. Democratic decay has numerous causes, but technological innovations and profit-driven dynamics are shaping societal relations in ways that intensify disagreements and polarisation, undermining informed citizenship. The growing number o
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"A collection of research on digital media regulatory interventions across Africa, an area that has largely been overlooked in the literature. It considers a range of perspectives from scholars within and outside Africa on the subject, providing a compendium on digital media regulation on the contin
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Governing Digital China
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2026), xx, 273 pp.
"China's approach to digital governance has gained global influence, often evoking Orwellian 'Big Brother' comparisons. Governing Digital China challenges this perception, arguing that China's approach is radically different in practice. This book explores the logic of popular corporatism, highlight
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The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication
Deep Insights
London; Thousan Oaks (Cailf.) et al.: Sage (2026), 800 pp.
"Spanning activism, governance, labor, industry, everyday life, and research methods, the handbook offers a critical and interdisciplinary survey of the field. It explores how the internet and digital media have reshaped political participation, civil society, and national identity; how state regula
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Toward AI Governance Alignment in Africa, Middle East, and Türkiye (AMET) Region
Global Center on AI Governance (GCG) (2026), 54 pp.
"The analysis begins by identifying the core “centric approaches” that guide Artificial Intelligence (AI) national strategies. These include security-anchored models driven by state control, innovation-led frameworks that prioritise competitiveness, rights-based regimes centred on fundamental pr
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Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2025), 261 pp.
"Governing the Digital Societypresents a range of governance approaches, focusing on online platforms, artificial intelligence, and the public values that underpin these technologies. The authors position themselves at the forefront of their disciplines, offering perspectives from law, critical data
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Pathways to Inclusion: Advancing Civil Society’s Role in AI Governance: Evidence from and for the Global Majority
Geneva: Globethics Publications (2025), 58 pp.
"This policy brief investigates the role of civil society on AI Governance with particular attention to the Global Majority. The research question explores whether civil society serves as an effective counterbalance to concentrated power in the AI ecosystem to ensure AI systems reflect diverse publi
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Inclusive and Secure Artificial Intelligence: A Global Perspective on Policy and Technical Developments
Deep Insights
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2025), 84 pp.
"As AI systems are developed and deployed, they often reflect and reinforce dominant cultural norms, marginalizing non-Western languages, epistemologies, and communities. This report explores the systemic risks associated with algorithmic bias, digital colonialism, and cultural homogenization, while
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Trust, Responsibility, and Digital Governance: Regulation of AI and Blockchain Technology from a Capacity-Based Perspective
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2025), 229 pp.
"Numerous ethical guidelines and regulatory frameworks have been developed to assess and shape digital systems. However, these efforts often rest on the dubious assumption that individuals and organisations possess the necessary capacities to assess such systems in terms of justice, reliability, and
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"The AI Policy Playbook offers a practical guide for governments in Africa and Asia to develop responsible and context-specific AI policies. Drawing from real-world policymaking experiences in seven countries, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, India, and Indonesia, the playbook shares less
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The revised SADC toolkit on universal access funding and universal service fund implementation 2024
Geneva: ITU (2025), xi, 76 pp.
"In 2011, working with the Communications Regulators’ Association of Southern Africa (CRASA),1 the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in cooperation with the European Commission (EC) published a toolkit on universal access funding and universal service implementation to provide guidance o
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Big Tech Must Go! Digital Giants are Destroying our Democracies and Economies. We will stop them
Deep Insights
Frankfurt; Chicago: Campus Verlag; University of Chicago Press (2025), 285 pp.
"Digital monopolies shape ever larger parts of our lives. The platforms are increasingly controlling the public formation of political opinion and at the same time abolishing our free market economy. Digital expert Martin Andree shows in detail how far the hostile takeover of our society by the tech
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Companion Document: The Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms and Generative Artificial Intelligence
Paris: UNESCO (2025), 34 pp.
"The Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms outline a set of responsibilities, duties, and recommendations relevant to the governance of generative AI. These include fostering an enabling environment for freedom of expression and access to information; establishing independent governance
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State of digital development and trends in the Americas region: Challenges and opportunities
Geneva: ITU (2025), v, 51 pp.
"This publication provides an in-depth look at digital development across the region, revealing both substantial progress and areas where challenges persist. Internet use is widespread, with nearly nine in ten people online. In a milestone achievement, the Americas is the only region to have fully b
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State of digital development and trends in the Africa region: Challenges and opportunities
Geneva: ITU (2025), iv, 49 pp.
"This publication reveals that the gap between ambition and reality remains wide. Mobile broadband coverage has expanded rapidly, offering most of the population the possibility of going online. And yet, only 38 per cent of the population currently uses the Internet—the lowest rate among all ITU r
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"This toolkit advocates taking a Human Rights-based approach to data governance. This means ensuring that data practices—across the full data lifecycle from collection to (re()use— should respect, protect, and fulfill the rights and freedoms of individuals and communities. This also entails trea
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State of digital development and trends in the Arab States region: Challenges and opportunities
Geneva: ITU (2025), iv, 53 pp.
"This report offers a comprehensive snapshot of the region’s digital landscape, highlighting both remarkable progress and persisting challenges. Ninety-five per cent of the population in this region is covered by mobile broadband networks, and more than half of the countries have already achieved
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Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries: How the Global South and Emerging Power Alliances Are Reshaping Digital Governance
Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press (2025), xxix, 282 pp.
In a world where digital development and policymaking are dominated by Silicon Valley tech giants, the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - play an increasingly important role. With forty percent of the world's population and twenty-five percent of global GDP, these nat
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Safeguarding Media Freedom in the Age of Big Tech Platforms and AI: Policy Manual
Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2025), 147 pp.
"With this Policy Manual, we provide guidance for building an information space free from oligopolistic control, resilient to manipulation, and supportive of independent, pluralistic media. This Policy Manual proposes both structural reforms and targeted mitigation measures – focusing on media vis
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