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10 Facts to Counter Encryption Myths
Access Now (2021), 23 pp.
"There is no question that we must address the issues of child safety, disinformation, national security, and criminal activity in the digital age. However, even if the stated end goal for mandating encryption backdoors is legitimate, the means must be necessary and proportionate. Deliberately intro
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Media and Information Literate Citizens: Think Critically, Click Wisely!
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed. (2021), 403 pp.
"This pioneering curriculum presents a comprehensive competency framework of media and information literacy and offers educators and leraners structured pedagogical suggestions. It features various detailed modules covering the range of competencies needed to navigate today’s communications ecosys
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Practicing Sovereignty: Digital Involvement in Times of Crises
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 430 pp.
"This book frames digital sovereignty as a right to be claimed and a process constantly in the making, as a condition of the ability to critically partake in the digital transformation. Emphasizing a political and transformative significance of the term, this interdisciplinary publication gathers sc
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Situational Analysis of Digital Security in Cameroon
Internews (2021), 14 pp.
"Based on the needs assessment, a high proportion of women in Cameroon face online violence and are increasingly concerned about their safety in digital spaces. However, many of these respondents are unaware of any legal protections offered to them. Additionally, they believe that they lack the appr
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State of the Digital Nation: The Digital Rights Report 2020
Foundation for Media Alternatives (2021), 121 pp.
"We structured the report by beginning with an overview of the digital environment in the Philippines in 2020 before delving into the impact of technology on human rights: the key events, challenges and accomplishments, then a forecast of 2021 and 2022. These are divided into the following key thema
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Digital Technologies and War
International Review of the Red Cross, volume 102, issue 913 (2020), pp. 1-444
Connecting with Confidence: Literature Review
UNHCR (2020), 23 pp.
"Specifically, the review focuses on the means, barriers, and associated cybersecurity and privacy concerns that refugees face around connectivity. This includes but is not limited to mobile connectivity and social media, particularly in displacement contexts. While these subjects may at times inter
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Putting Cybersecurity on the Rights Track
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2020), 61 pp.
"This document is a compilation of the outcomes of the research component of a small project entitled “Putting cybersecurity on the rights track” that the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) implemented during the course of 2019 with the participation of APC members." (About this pr
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Data Imperialism: The GDPR's Disastrous Impact on Africa's E-Commerce Markets
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, volume 53, issue 2 (2020), pp. 684-711
"The European Union (EU) recently passed the General Data Protection Regulation-a sweeping regulatory framework that sets a new global standard for the collection, storage, and use of personal data. To ensure far-reaching compliance with the GDPR, the EU has adopted a strict take-it-or-leave-it appr
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#UnderPressure: Digital Civil Society
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2020), 56 pp.
"The Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) supports civil society actors worldwide in their advocacy for democracy and peace, encourages dialogue within civil society and contributes to the protection of minorities and persons at risk. With the fellowships of the CrossCulture Programme (CCP), ifa
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"Divisive Internet regulation is fragmenting the formerly worldwide web into numerous shards that follow their own rules. The US, the EU and China are influential in shaping regulation even beyond their own jurisdictions, with consequences for human rights, particularly in Africa. This paper argues
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Digital Rights in Africa
African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition (2020), 297 pp.
"This publication is a compilation of 19 articles by African researchers, academics, journalists and human and digital rights activists on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on digital rights in Africa. The articles were commissioned by the African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms (AfDec
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Security should be there by default: Investigating how journalists perceive and respond to risks from the Internet of Things
In: 2020 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW)
IEEE (2020), pp. 240-249
"Journalists have long been the targets of both physical and cyber-attacks from well-resourced adversaries. Internet of Things (IoT) devices are arguably a new avenue of threat towards journalists through both targeted and generalised cyber-physical exploitation. This study comprises three parts: Fi
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Politizar la tecnología: Radios comunitarias y derecho a la comunicación en los territorios digitales
Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Jinete Insomne (2020), 206 pp.
"Como se podrá observar en cada una de las páginas del texto, en realidad las tecnologías están diseñadas para incrementar los mecanismos de penetración del capitalismo y otras formas de dominación en cada una de las esferas de nuestras vidas. En este sentido, es menester observar las relacio
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