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Handbook on mainstreaming gender in digital policies
Geneva: ITU (2023), viii, 67 pp.
"The Handbook is a first-of-its-kind guide that gives insights into how we can best support policy-making processes that advocate gender equality. It illustrates the concrete actions that policy-makers can take and offers an actionable checklist that supports the process of gender-equal policy-makin
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Global Findings Bertelsmann Transformation Index BTI 2022
Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung (2022), 26 pp.
"As in previous years, the BTI 2022 has identified considerable regression worldwide with regard to trans-formation processes. The guiding principles of democracy and the market economy have been subjected to intense pressure and are being challenged by corrupt elites, illiberal populism and authori
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Remapping Cold War Media: Institutions, Infrastructures, Translations
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2022), ix, 312 pp.
"Cold War media cultures are typically remembered in terms of an East-West binary, emphasizing conflict and propaganda. Remapping Cold War Media, however, offers a different perspective on the period, illuminating the extensive connections between media industries and cultures in Europe's Cold War E
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Making Internet-Enabled Phones More Affordable in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
London: GSMA (2022), 43 pp.
"This report provides an overview of approaches and business models that are improving the affordability of handsets for various underserved populations in LMICs. It explores some of the nuances among these groups, considerations for meeting their different needs and variations between markets in Su
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"A summary of the forthcoming policy paper Greening Africa's news deserts: The search for sustainable local media in sub-Saharan Africa, soon to be published. The policy paper has been written with support from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Fojo Media Institute. It focuses on local and communit
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The Handbook of International Trends in Environmental Communication
New York; London: Routledge (2022), xxv, 514 pp.
"Bringing together theoretical, methodological, and practical chapters, this book presents a unique opportunity for environmental communication scholars to critically reflect on the past, examine present trends, and start envisioning exciting new methodologies, theories and areas of research. Chapte
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Use of Community Engagement Interventions to Improve Child Immunisation in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Campbell Systematic Reviews, volume 18, issue e1253 (2022), 118 pp.
"This systematic review examines the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community engagement interventions on outcomes related to childhood immunisation in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and identifies contextual, design and implementation features that may be associated with effectiv
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Digital Inequality Beyond the Digital Divide: Conceptualizing Adverse Digital Incorporation in the Global South
Information Technology for Development, volume 28, issue 4 (2022), pp. 688-704
"Digital systems are significantly associated with inequality in the global South. That association has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or related terminologies whose core conceptualization is the exclusion of some groups from the benefits of digital systems. However, wi
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Survival-Guide für lokale Medien: Wie der Journalismus Innovationen schafft, um nachhaltige Wege zur Unterstützung lokaler Gemeinschaften auf der ganzen Welt zu finden und gegen Desinformation vorzugehen
Potsdam; Wien: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung; International Press Institute (IPI) (2022), 20 pp.
"Die Schlüsselfragen für den Erfolg lokaler Nachrichtenmedien sind die folgenden: Lösen Sie ein Problem für ihre Zielgruppe? Identifizieren und füllen sie eine Nachrichten- oder Informationslücke für ihre Gemeinschaft bzw. Gemeinschaften? In diesem Bericht beschäftigen wir uns damit, wie Jou
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Global Media Ethics and the Digital Revolution
London; New York: Routledge (2022), 292 pp.
"An international team of contributors draw upon global and non-Western traditions to discuss the philosophical origins of ethics and the tension that exists between media institutions, the media market and political/ideological influencers. The chapters then unveil the discrepancies among internati
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Let Free Media Thrive: Selected Stories of 4 Years of Impact of the Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (2018-2021)
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 18 pp.
"The stories presented here are some examples of how the Multi-Donor Programme for Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) works to provide countries and their populations with the necessary tools to nurture a free and independent media. This includes promoting the adoption of policies
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Disinformation in the Global South
Deep Insights
Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell (2022), xxv, 237 pp.
"In many parts of the Global South, coordinated political disinformation campaigns, rumor, and propaganda have long been a part of the social fabric, even before disinformation has become an area of scholarship in the Global North. The way disinformation manifests in this region, and responses to it
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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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Born in the Fire: What We Can Learn from How Digital Publishers in the Global South Approach Platforms
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 33 pp.
"Based on interviews with a strategic sample of 11 publishers in eight low- and middle-income countries, the authors of this report analyse how various digital publishers across a range of Global South countries approach digital platforms: both big platform companies such as Google and Meta; rapidly
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Entwicklungspolitik: Eine Einführung in Zielsetzungen und Ergebnisse
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2022), xi, 268 pp.
"Entwicklung im Sinne der schrittweisen Entfaltung der eigenen und/oder der gesellschaftlichen Fähigkeiten und Anlagen geschieht vor allem durch eigene Handlungen (Selbsthilfe), kann aber auch gezielt gefördert werden. Was genau die Entwicklung von Volkswirtschaften und Gesellschaften ausmacht, wu
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Journalism in Emerging Economies and the Global South
Deep Insights
Thomson Reuters Foundation (2021), 141 pp.
"55 alumni of training programmes run by the Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) shared their experiences about living – and working – in the COVID era. These insights, coupled with extensive desk research and analysis, inform the narrative of this new report [...] COVID-19 has had a twin impact on
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Connectivity in the Least Developed Countries: Status report 2021
Geneva: ITU (2021), ix, 59 pp.
"In 2020, the 46 LDCs had a combined population of 1.06 billion people and are highly vulnerable, with low levels of human development. And yet, geography, population size and income vary within the group, and these different conditions affect digital development.
National data infrastructure is an
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Overlooking the Political Economy in the Research on Propaganda
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 2, issue special issue (2021), 14 pp.
"A thematic meta-analysis – of recent literature on online propaganda in the context of the Global South, and 20 Facebook-funded research projects in 2018 – shows that research is overwhelmingly focused on the psychological and behavioral impacts of propaganda. This research advocates for promot
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Affordability Report 2021: A New Strategy for Universal Access
Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation (2021), 28 pp.
"This report is the eighth edition of the Affordability Report. Released annually by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), the report summarises the state of internet affordability around the world and of the policies and regulations that affect it [...] The latest update of the Affordability
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From Digital Divide to Digital Justice in the Global South: Conceptualising Adverse Digital Incorporation
Manchester: Centre for Digital Development (2021), 13 pp.
"The connection between digital and inequality has traditionally been understood in terms of the digital divide or of forms of digital inequality whose core conceptualisation is exclusion. This paper argues that, as the global South moves into a digital development paradigm of growing breadth and de
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