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Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures 2019
Geneva: ITU (2019), ii, 11 pp.
"Welcome to the first of ITU’s Measuring Digital Development series of statistical and analytical publications that replace the annual Measuring the Information Society Report. Facts and figures 2019 offers a snapshot of the most important ICT indicators, including estimates for the current year.
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Media Influence Matrix: Romania. Technology, Public Sphere and Journalism
Budapest: CEU School of Public Policy, Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 23 pp.
"Convergence of services usually affects the quality and price of services offered by providers. However, this has not been the case in Romania yet. People benefit from a very competitive market and enjoy fairly cheap services, but the implications of convergence on the content made available to con
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Research Evidence for the Relationship Between Corruption and Civil Liberties
Transparency International (2018), 8 pp.
"Corrupt individuals have proven very adept at finding ways to get around formal constraints, which is why grassroots and bottom-up approaches to fighting corruption tend to be more sustainable in the long run than isolated institutional and legal reform. Often, well-intentioned laws are poorly enfo
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Connected Women: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2018
Deep Insights
London: GSMA (2018), 28 pp.
"In low- and middle-income countries women are 10% less likely than men to own a mobile phone. Over 1.2 billion women do not use mobile internet. There is a significant gender gap in mobile usage - particularly for more transformational services. Women in South Asia are 26% less likely to own a mobi
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The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2018
Washington, DC; Geneva: World Bank; ITU (2018), vi, 240 pp.
"In 2016, there were more than 7.3 billion mobile-cellular subscriptions worldwide. Globally, 3.5 billion people were using the Internet, of which 2.5 billion were from developing countries. Mobile-broadband subscriptions have risen constantly to reach 3.6 billion, while the number of fixed-broadban
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Measuring the Information Society Report 2018. Vol.1
Geneva: ITU (2018), xi, 189 pp.
The Mobile Economy: Latin America and the Caribbean 2018
London: GSMA (2018), 57 pp.
"By mid-2018, there were 442 million unique mobile subscribers across Latin America and the Caribbean, accounting for 68% of the population. The region is characterised by varying levels of mobile subscriber penetration. A number of countries (such as Chile, Uruguay and Argentina) are approaching sa
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Defending Independent Media: A Comprehensive Analysis of Aid Flows
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2018), 37 pp.
"When donors provide assistance to the media sector, they frequently back projects that aim to strengthen the media’s contribution to good governance in some way or another. This kind of funding is consistent with recent declarations made by the international community on the importance of protect
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Measuring the Information Society Report 2017. Vol.1
Geneva: ITU (2017), xi, 154 pp.
El libro en cifras: Boletín estadístico del libro en Iberoamérica
Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2017), 20 pp.
"Undécimo número de El libro en cifras, que apareció por primera vez en junio de 2012, con un objetivo: retratar en cifras la situación del libro, la lectura, las bibliotecas y el derecho de autor en Iberoamérica. Desde entonces, dos veces al año, este boletín ha venido ofreciendo informes so
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Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profiles: Trends in International Trade in Creative Industries
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) (2016), vii, 161 pp.
"International trade in creative industries showed sustained growth in the last decade. The global market for traded creative goods and services totaled a record $547billion in 2012, as compared to $302 billion in 2003. Exports from developing countries, led by Asian countries, were growing faster t
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Public Financing for Film and Television Content: The State of Soft Money in Europe
Strasbourg: European Audiovisual Observatory, Coucnil of Europe (2016), 108 pp.
"In total, a yearly average of EUR 2.53 billion went to the 214 funds in a sample including 33 countries (Albania and Russia could not be tracked for this indicator) between 2010 and 2014 (a proportioned average of 196.2 funds a year, since not all the funds tracked existed over the entire period).
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Ericsson Mobility Report
Ericsson (2016), 31 pp.
"In this Ericsson Mobility Report, we continue to describe the evolution towards the Networked Society. Between 2015 and 2021, the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to increase at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent, making up close to 16 billion of the total forecast 28 billion
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Digital Discrimination: Political Bias in Internet Service Provision Across Ethnic Groups
Science, volume 353, issue 6304 (2016), pp. 1151-1155
"The global expansion of the Internet is frequently associated with increased government transparency, political rights, and democracy. However, this assumption depends on marginalized groups getting access in the first place. Here we document a strong and persistent political bias in the allocation
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Diversity and the Film Industry: An Analysis of the 2014 UIS Survey on Feature Film Statistics
Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2016), 39 pp.
"Based on data collected from 97 countries through the UIS 2014 Survey on Feature Film Statistics, the following observations on diversity can be made: In 2012, the number of feature films greatly increased throughout the world, and the following year a new production record was hit: 7,610 movies. H
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"This report provides an overview of a decade of killings of journalists, media workers and social media producers, between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2015. The extent of the risks faced by those exercising their right to express opinions and disseminate information is demonstrated by the figure
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Measuring the Information Society Report 2016
Geneva: ITU (2016), 256 pp.
"This annual report presents a global and regional overview of the latest developments regarding information and communication technologies (ICTs), based on internationally comparable data and agreed methodologies. It aims to stimulate the ICT policy debate in ITU Member States by providing an objec
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