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Kommunikation ist Mission

Fabrizio Colombo
Forum Weltkirche, volume 139, issue 4 (2020), pp. 18-23
"Kommunikation und die modernen Medien sind für ihn kein bloßes Instrument, sondern Teil des heutigen Lebensumfelds der Menschen. Seit vielen Jahren schult Fabrizio Colombo katholische Jugendliche, kirchliche Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter sowie Priester und Bischöfe in Afrika im Umgang mit dig ... more
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Drivers of data for development: Exploring the factors that enable availability and utility of open data for development in Africa

Amos Simche Lansana, Claude Migisha, Dickson Minjire et al.
Africa Open Data Network (AODN) (2020), 83 pp.
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Transparent for Whom? Dissemination of Information on Ghana's Petroleum and Mining Revenue Management

Põivi Lujala, Christa N. Brunnschweiler, Ishmael Edjekumhene
Journal of Development Studies, volume 56, issue 12 (2020), pp. 2135-2153
"The dominant transparency narrative in policymaking attributes a key role to the public: once citizens gain information, they are predicted to use it to demand better resource governance. Whether the public receives the available information in the first place, however, has not been scrutinised in ... more
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Sharing the Burden of Stories from the Tutsi Genocide. Rwanda: Écrire par Devoir de Mémoire

Anna-Marie de Beer
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xii, 300 pp.
"This book deals with literary representations of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Its focus is a transnational, polyphonic writing project entitled Rwanda: écrire par devoir de mémoire (Rwanda: Writing by Duty of Memory), undertaken in 1998 by a group of nine African authors. Anna-Marie ... more
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Growing the local book industry: The experience of a publishing collaborative in Rwanda

Save the Children (2020), 2 pp.
"In Rwanda, Save the Children collaborated with education ministries, publishing industry stakeholders, schools, book sellers and libraries in order to strengthen existing systems and increase output and availability of quality local language children’s books. This ‘whole chain’ approach addre ... more
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Situating Open Data: Global Trends in Local Contexts

Danny Lämmerhirt, Ana Brandusescu, Natalia Domagala, Patrick Enaholo (eds.)
Cape Town: African Minds (2020), xiii, 243 pp.
"This book provides empirical accounts to understand the situatedness of open data along the following themes: 1) open data practices; 2) the local implementation of global trends; and 3) open data ecosystems. Many chapters in this volume simultaneously address several of these themes. The thematic ... more
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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 ... more
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Evaluation du développement de l’internet au Bénin: Utilisation des indicateurs ROAM-X de l’Universalité de l’Internet de l’UNESCO

Alain Kiyindou
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 263 pp.
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Optimizing Pandemic Preparedness and Response Through Health Information Systems: Lessons Learned from Ebola to COVID-19

Arusch Lal, Henry C. Ashworth, Sara Dada, Laura Hoemeke, Ernest Tambo
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, volume 16, issue 1 (2020), pp. 333-340
"Strengthening health systems and maintaining essential service delivery during health emergencies response is critical for early detection and diagnosis, prompt treatment, and effective control of pandemics, including the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Health information systems (HIS) d ... more
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Central Project Evaluation: Further Education and Training for Media Professionals in Africa – DW Akademie, Kenya and Rwanda. Evaluation Report

Stefan Silvestrini, Furaha Hakizimana
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2020), 56 pp.
"The factors that led to the overall unsatisfactory assessment of the project can be summarised as follows: • The project was not anchored in any overarching reference framework. Accordingly, neither its contributions to the strategic objectives of the German development cooperation nor to any oth ... more
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Information Saves Lives: Ebola Outbreak in the DRC. End Line KAP Survey

USAID; Internews DR Congo (2020), 72 pp.
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Evaluation du développement de l’internet au Sénégal: Utilisation des indicateurs ROAM-X de l’Universalité de l’Internet de l’UNESCO

Paris: UNESCO (2020), 153 pp.
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État des libertés sur Internet au Tchad 2019: Cartographie des tendances en matière de contrôle de l’Internet par les pouvoirs publics, 1999-2019

Simone Toussi
Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 21 pp.
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Online surveillance and the repressive Press Council Bill 2018. A two-pronged approach to media self-censorship in Nigeria

Olunifesi Adekunle Suraj
In: Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship
Ingrid Fadnes, Anna Grøndahl Larsen, Roy Krøvel (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), pp. 80-99
"This chapter examines the perceptions of Nigerian journalists towards the Nigerian Press Council Bill 2018 and the governments’ online surveillance. The study employs survey and interview methods: 217 Nigerian media practitioners selected from print and online media responded to the questionnaire ... more
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Routledge Handbook of Environmental Journalism

David B. Sachsman, JoAnn Myer Valenti (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 421 pp.
"An increasing number of media platforms - from newspapers and television to Internet social media networks - are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural world and environmental risk. Despite the dramatic changes in the news industry that have tended to reduce the number o ... more
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Media and Information Literacy Index. Country Report Burkina Faso

Dennis Reineck, Luise Krumm
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 28 pp.
"Reliable, high quality information is a key priority for the young generation in Burkina Faso. Perhaps as a consequence of political insecurities and the prevalence of violent extremism, a majority of young people between 15 and 25 years seems very aware of the negative consequences of malevolent f ... more
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État des libertés sur Internet en République Démocratique 2019: Cartographie des tendances en matière de contrôle de l’Internet par les pouvoirs publics, 1999-2019

Arsène Tungali, Blaise Ndola
Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 20 pp.
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Silencing the Media and Chaining the Watchdog: Threats to Journalist Safety During Elections in Nigeria

Adamkolo Mohammed Ibrahim, Umaru A. Pate, Abdulsamad Muhammad Usman
In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Sadia Jamil (ed.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 214-240
"Over the last two decades, Nigeria has been struggling to consolidate its democratic processes to ensure peaceful campaigns and free and fair polls. But electoral processes require the free flow of verified electoral information and citizen's participation – phenomena that only free media can gua ... more
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Intervention or Collaboration? Redesigning Information and Communication Technologies for Development
Deep Insights

Anna Bon
Amsterdam: Pangea (2020), 359 pp.
"This thesis describes the search for and the design of a field-based approach to ICT4D. Ten years of field and action research in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana have led to a practical approach that guides design and development of information systems. It fosters knowledge exchange between people fr ... more
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Social Media and Elections in Africa. Vol. 1: Theoretical Perspectives and Election Campaigns

Martin N. Ndlela, Winston Mano (eds.)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xv, 237 pp.
"This book brings together fresh evidence and new theoretical frameworks in a unique analysis of the increasing role of social media in political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa. Supported by contemporary and historical cases studies, it engages with the main drives behind the variou ... more