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Addressing Hate Speech: Educational Responses
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 14 pp.
"This paper will discuss the challenges and opportunities of addressing both online and offline hate speech through education and recommend comprehensive approaches for effective educational strategies. Incorporating context-based teaching and learning practices that promote responsible global citiz
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Digital Technologies and Inclusion in Humanitarian Response
London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (2022), 29 pp.
"This paper brings together the key findings of research into digital humanitarian action and inclusion, asking what the impact of new digital approaches has been on how inclusion is understood and operationalised in humanitarian action. The Humanitarian Policy Group undertook three thematic case st
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E-Participation in Africa: Literature Review
Bonn; Addis Ababa: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); DataCipation Project (2022), 28 pp.
"E-participation is the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) or digital technologies to involve citizens in public decision-making with the goal of empowering citizens and for the benefit of society as a whole. It is part of e-governance, a term that refers to the use of ICTs in
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming? Russia’s Growing Presence in Africa and its Implication for European Policy
The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2022), 46 pp.
"The growth of Russia’s presence across Africa over the last decade has generated significant international concern, further exacerbated after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia’s engagement can affect the interests and policies of the European Union (EU) and its member states (MS) in Africa
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ICT accessibility overview: Assessment for the Africa region
Geneva: ITU (2022), vi, 50 pp.
"The aim of this report is to support ITU members and stakeholders from the Africa region in their efforts to achieve inclusive digital communities by assessing ICT accessibility as a key driver in achieving digital inclusion within the digital transformation process. The report provides an overview
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Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future
Oakland, Cal.: University of California Press (2022), 209 pp.
"Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone. By forcing data-hoarding companies to open access to their data, we can reinvigorate both our economy and our society. Authors Viktor
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The Unfreedom Monitor: Information
Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 22 pp.
"To summarise, three factors define information manipulation today in the observed countries. First, there is continuous enhancement of disinformation technical abilities to overcome the measures taken by IT platforms and make disinformation look more trustworthy, especially using AI. Second, grand
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Pastoral Communication in the Digital Age: Reality, Reflections and Response
Deep Insights
Signis (2022), 43 pp.
"In terms of the pastoral challenges presented by ICT, this paper demonstrates the need for the Church and her pastoral leaders to skillfully and wisely navigate the realm of technology in order to put this gift granted by God to the best use. This demands that pastoral leaders and faith communicato
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Silencing Voices, Suppressing Criticism: The Decline in Indonesia's Civil Liberties
Jakarta: Amnesty International (2022), 67 pp.
"Between January 2019 and May 2022, Amnesty International recorded at least 328 physical and/or digital attacks directed against civil society, resulting in a total of at least 834 victims. The victims include human rights defenders (HRDs), activists, journalists, environmental defenders, students,
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"GFMD's core mandate, as agreed in our Strategic Plan (2021-2025), is to promote policies, programmes, strategies and opportunities for the work of the journalism and media support sector to enhance journalism as a public good. To this end our members support small and medium-sized independent publi
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Narrative, Power and Polarisation: The Role of Influential Actors
Barcelona: Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT) (2022), 14 pp.
Trapped in a Web: The Exploitation of Personal Data in Hungary’s 2022 Elections
Human Rights Watch (2022), 94 pp.
"On April 3, 2022, Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party won a fourth term in national elections, cementing its dominance with a two-thirds majority that will allow it to continue traveling what critics of the party and many others would describe as the path of centralizing power and rolling back democrat
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Content Moderation and Local Stakeholders in Indonesia
London: Article 19 (2022), 77 pp.
"This research has shown that in the midst of the complex and diverse cultural context of Indonesia, growing use and misuse of social media in the country, and the complexity of ‘grey-area’ problematic content in the country, there has been a lack of meaningful and continuous dialogue between pl
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Principles for Effective Support to the Media Sector. Thirty-Third Session of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication, 24-25 November 2022, Item 10 of the Provisional Agenda
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 3 pp.
"This document offers a summary of a broad-based process underway in the wider media development community to develop principles for effective support to the media sector, and its relevance for the work of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC). The document includes
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A Treatment for Viral Deception? Automated Moderation of COVID-19 Disinformation
Universität Innsbruck (2022), 110 pp.
"This paper examines responses to disinformation, in particular those involving automated tools, from a human rights perspective. It provides an introduction to current automated content moderation and curation practices, and to the interrelation between the digital information ecosystem and the phe
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Meaningful Connectivity for Rural Communities: Geographic Barriers & Policy Strategies for Digital Inclusion
Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation (2022), 23 pp.
"This report details the urban-rural connectivity gap in nine low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and what that means for their potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals [...] Across all nine countries [Colombia, India, Indonesia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Mozambique, South Af
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Internet Shutdowns and Human Rights: Submission in Response to the Call for Comments by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights as Input for the Report on Internet Shutdowns and Human Rights to the Fiftieth Session of the Human Rights Council in June 2022
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2022), 29 pp.
"Temporary internet disruptions and shutdowns pose serious challenges to the exercise of a wide range of rights and therefore cannot be justified under any pretext, whether these relate to preservation of national security, safeguarding the public order, or countering disinformation, among others. A
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"The aim of this report is to provide a landscape scan of how an extremely diverse set of communities and movements are working at intersections of technology, digital rights, environmental justice and climate justice. The report’s primary audiences are grantmakers and practitioners working in or
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