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The Highs and Lows of Uganda’s Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019
Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 8 pp.
Negotiating Internet Governance
Deep Insights
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xix, 228 pp.
"This book provides an incisive analysis of the emergence and evolution of global Internet governance, revealing its mechanisms, key actors and dominant community practices. Based on extensive empirical analysis covering more than four decades, it presents the evolution of Internet regulation from t
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"This report specifically examines legal remedies for online attacks against journalists. It looks at three case studies, in Finland, France and Ireland, of female journalists who were viciously attacked online for their work and the ensuing attempts to hold the perpetrators accountable. From an ana
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A Global South Perspective on Alternative Spectrum Policy
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2019), 32 pp.
Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society
Cambridge: Polity Press (2019), vii, 194 pp.
"Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and analysis of unprecedented amounts of personal data. This requires us to fundamentally rethink our und
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How Social Media Taxes Can Burden News Outlets: The Case of Uganda
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019)
"In July 2018, the government of Uganda implemented a tax on individual users of social media platforms. In the first three months following the introduction of the tax in the country, internet penetration dropped from 47 percent to 35 percent. Given that a significant amount of news circulation now
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Data Politics: Worlds, Subjects, Rights
London, New York: Routledge (2019), x, 293 pp.
"Data has become a social and political issue because of its capacity to reconfigure relationships between states, subjects, and citizens. This book explores how data has acquired such an important capacity and examines how critical interventions in its uses in both theory and practice are possible.
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Social Media in Zimbabwe: A Toxic Tool or a Future Bridge to Peace?
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 10 pp.
"The rise of social media in Zimbabwe has brought with it a greater variety of platforms which offer people a means to express themselves. However, the democratisation of information and the increase in digital spaces have also come with greater state restriction and polarisation among Zimbabweans.
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Big Data, Not Big Brother: New Data Protection Laws and the Implications for Independent Media Around the World
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019), 28 pp.
"A year after a new wave of data protection regulations such as the European Union’s GDPR have come into effect, the websites of media outlets continue collecting great volumes of personal information—but often unintentionally, and typically for other parties. That so many media institutions hav
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"Since 2013, Bangladesh authorities have used draconian provisions in the Information and Communication Technology Act (ICT Act) to arrest scores of people for political and social commentary critical of the current Awami League government or its leaders. Those targeted have also included journalist
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Mapping Digital Rights and Online Freedom of Expression in East, West and Southern Africa
Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) (2018), 100 pp.
"This report maps the current landscape in respect of digital rights and online freedom of expression in East, West and Southern Africa. It looks at the trends regarding law and policy developments, as well as recent litigation, within these regions. The report focuses on 18 countries – 6 per regi
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Regulating Content on Social Media: Copyright, Terms of Service and Technological Features
London: UCL Press (2018), xi, 265 pp.
Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Ethiopia
Kampala: CIPESA (2018), 26 pp.
Schwacher Staat im Netz: Wie die Digitalisierung den Staat in Frage stellt
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2018), vi, 271 pp.
Self-regulation and ‘hate speech’ on social media platforms
London: Article 19 (2018), 31 pp.
"A number of recent legislative initiatives on ‘hate speech’, including most prominently the 2017 German NetzDG law on social media, make reference to some forms of self-regulation. Voluntary mechanisms between digital companies and various public bodies addressing ‘hate speech’ and other is
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Marco civil da Internet: Violações ao direito de acesso universal previsto na lei
São Paulo: Intervozes (2018), 53 pp.
"Como recomendações à reversão do atual processo em curso e para o respeito à legislação para a Internet em vigor no Brasil, sobretudo o Marco Civil da Internet, propomos: A inclusão do modelo de regime público para a prestação do serviço de conexão à Internet, especialmente na presta
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"It is precisely to counterbalance what are largely “outsider” views in the main edition of Global Information Society Watch that we wanted this companion edition to capture the origin stories, achievements and challenges of National and Regional IGF Initiative (NRI) in their own words. Their st
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Press Freedom and Nigeria's Cybercrime Act of 2015: An Assessment
Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 2 (2017), pp. 117-127
"This study assesses the Cybercrime Act 2015 and its implications for online press freedom in the liberal authoritarian state of Nigeria. Specifically, the study examines how the character of political leadership in Nigeria leads to wrongful application of the act to undermine the independence of th
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