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Cameroun
Dakar; Johannesburg: Projet pour l’observation et le plaidoyer sur la gouvernance en Afrique (AfriMAP); Initiative de la Société Ouverte pour l’Afrique Occidentale (OSIWA); Programme média des fondations pour une société ouverte (Open Society Media Program – OSMP); Open Society Foundations (2012), xi, 91 pp.
"Le rapport sur la radiodiffusion publique au Cameroun observe que le pays a fait ses preuves en matière de libéralisation des médias depuis l'aube du millénaire, mais qu'en dépit de ses plus de 80 stations de radio et de ses cinq chaînes de télévision nationales, des problèmes subsistent.
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Financially Viable Media in Emerging and Developing Markets: Kenya
Paris; Nairobi: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2012), 41 pp.
"Kenya has been the scene of sweeping technological innovations, but these have often benefited solely affluent urban and foreign markets. Poorly developed infrastructure and program design have delayed benefits for the broader Kenyan public. In addition, Kenya’s innovations have proven difficult
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Cameroon
Dakar; Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA); Open Society Foundations; Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2012), xi, 88 pp.
"The report on public broadcasting in Cameroon, observes that the country although has a strong track record of media liberalization since the dawn of the millennium, but despite its more than 80 radio and five national television stations challenges remain. Cameroon’s record of upholding press fr
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Medienförderung in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (ZfAS), volume 5, issue 1 (2012), pp. 31-39
"Die Entwicklungen in Nordafrika und auf der Arabien halten uns eindrücklich vor Augen, dass Meinungs- und Pressefreiheit Motor für gesellschaftliche Umbruchsituationen sind und wesentlich zur politischen Teilhabe beitragen können. Vor dem Hintergrund der weltweiten Verbreitung neuer Informations
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Freedom of Expression, Media and Digital Communications: Key Issues
EPRD Policy & Development; European Commission (2012), 35 pp.
"Key recommendations: Explore ways of integrating EU diplomatic power alongside its development programmes in order to support freedom of expression and independent media and communicaitons; Enhance coordination between the different operational arms of the EU; Utilise EU’s convening power to brin
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Mapping Digital Media: News and New Media in Central Africa. Challenges and Opportunities
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 65 pp.
"In this report, Marie-Soleil Frère surveys the news landscapes of DRC, Burundi, and Rwanda. Marshaling an impressive range of data, she examines patterns of production and consumption, the often grim realities of law and regulation, the embryonic state of media policy, the role of donors, and the
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Tunisia: From Revolutions to Institutions
Washington, DC: infoDev Information for Development Program (2012), 121 pp.
"The study “Tunisia: from revolutions to institutions” stresses how technology-oriented small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) can generate economic expansion and job growth, including in the economically-isolated interior provinces. Tunisian ICT companies are likely to find an attractive marke
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The Role of Crowdsourcing for Better Governance in International Development
Praxis: The Fletcher Journal of Human Security, volume 27 (2012), pp. 47-70
"This paper, originally produced in longer format for the World Bank Group, is meant to be a primer on crowdsourcing as an informational resource for development, crisis response, and post-conflict recovery. Inherent in the theoretical approach is that broader, unencumbered participation in governan
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Public Service Broadcasting in the MENA Region: Potential for Reform
Paris; Bellaterra: Panos Paris; Observatori Mediterrani de la Comunicació (OMEC) (2012), 263 pp.
"The present study is a review of the mission of public service broadcasting in eight countries of the Middle East and North Africa. It examines the books of specifications and the legal frameworks that regulate public broadcasting as well as it looks into the means made available to implement it. F
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Tunisian Media in Transition
Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2012), 27 pp.
"The Tunisian media is still a venue for manipulation, intimidation, and bias. Media outlets are becoming the main stage for the fierce political and ideological battle between the country’s opposing camps: conservative Islamists and secular elitists. Ennahda, the Islamist winner of the first free
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Using ICT to Promote Governance
DANIDA (2012), 40 pp.
"In the fall of 2011, Danida commissioned a study with the objective of examining strategic opportunities for using ICT for promoting governance and democratization efforts within development assistance; and exploring opportunities for ICT in the present Danish portfolio of development programs and
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The Sustainability of Community Broadcasting in Namibia: An Assessment and Plan of Action
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 83 pp.
"The study found that, in their struggle to generate the income for day-to-day running costs, stations become detached from their communities, and end up competing - usually unsuccessfully - with better-resourced commercial broadcasters. The solution, the study suggests, is to invest in strengthenin
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Educomunicação: O conceito, o profissional, a aplicação. Contribuições para a reforma de ensino médio
São Paulo: Paulinas, 2nd ed. (2011), 102 pp.
The Value of Libraries for Research and Researchers
London: Research Libraries UK (RLUK); Research Information Network (RIN) (2011), 64 pp.
"This report presents the findings of a systematic study of the value of the services that libraries in the UK provide to researchers, and of the contributions that libraries from a wide range of institutions make to institutional research performance. The aim was to identify the key characteristics
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Independent Media in Exile
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 43 pp.
"This report offers four recommendations for addressing some of the complex challenges of independent media in exile: donor groups should expand and formalize coordination of their exile-media support [...]; organizations providing international media training should actively seek to train exile-med
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Overview Report: Measuring Media Development
Washington, DC: Internews; World Bank Institute (2011), 16 pp.
"The Media Map Project is investigating the relationships between media and development, and analyzing the impact of media development assistance in specific contexts. The project undertakes a three-pronged approach. Part 1, Quantifying Media is an extensive quantitative analysis of macro data, appl
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The Right to Information and Privacy: Balancing Rights and Managing Conflicts
Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), viii, 44 pp.
"The right to privacy and the right to information are both essential human rights in the modern information society. For the most part, these two rights complement each other in holding governments accountable to individuals. But there is a potential conflict between these rights when there is a de
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Africa’s Evolving Infosystems: A Pathway to Security and Stability
Washington, DC: National Defense University Press (2011), iii, 57 pp.
"Linked by mobile telephony and supported by geographical information systems, civil society networks now have unprecedented opportunities to develop security-monitoring programs, provide information needed for effective health care, create banking services, and provide farmers with market informati
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