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Design thinking in media development

Deutsche Welle DW Akademie, October 1 (2025)
"DW Akademie’s media development projects encourage participants to find fitting solutions to their problems. A design thinking process can guide them. Trainer Yulia Alekseeva explains what it takes to innovate." (Introduction)

Manual de buenas prácticas de responsabilidad social comunitaria

San José: Universidad de Costa Rica, Centro de Investigación en Comunicación (CICOM) (2024), 87 pp.
"El presente manual representa un importante y valioso esfuerzo por poner el foco en el relacionamiento con comunidades. Surge de una investigación de campo que resume acciones de empresas interesadas en conocer a sus grupos de interés externos y, de manera específica, a las comunidades a quienes ... more

Public Interest Communications: Strategy for Changemakers

New York; London: Routledge (2025), xii, 344 pp.
"Written by two practitioners with deep professional experience, this book introduces readers to public interest communications, which takes an evidence-based approach to using strategic communications to drive positive social change. Each chapter includes accessible, applicable insights, exercises ... more

The Media Viability Manifesto: A Common Framework for Joint Action

Bonn et al.: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie;Media Viability Manifesto Initiative (2024), 33 pp.
"The Media Viability Manifesto (MVM) provides an urgently needed common framework for joint action from the global media development community. Its aim is three-pronged: To foster conceptual clarity, to strengthen strategic collaboration between multiple stakeholders, and to align practical implemen ... more

Manifiesto sobre la Viabilidad de los Medios de comunicación: Un marco común para la acción conjunta

Bonn et al.: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie;Media Viability Manifesto Initiative;UNESCO IPDC (2024), 37 pp.
"El Manifiesto sobre la Viabilidad de los Medios de comunicación (MVM, por sus siglas en inglés) proporciona un marco común, urgentemente necesario, para la acción conjunta de la comunidad mundial de desarrollo de los medios. Su objetivo es triple: fomentar la claridad conceptual, reforzar la co ... more

Manifeste sur la viabilité des médias: Un cadre commun pour une action conjointe

Bonn et al.: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie;Media Viability Manifesto Initiative;UNESCO IPDC (2024), 37 pp.
"Le Manifeste sur la viabilité des médias (MVM) établit un cadre commun, dont le besoin est urgent, pour une action conjointe de la part de la communauté mondiale du développement des médias. Son objectif est triple : Promouvoir une vision claire, renforcer la collaboration stratégique entre ... more

Funding Journalism: A Guide for Canadian Philanthropy

Inspirit Foundation;Local News Research Project at Toronto Metropolitan University;Philanthropic Foundations Canada (2024), 27 pp.

Press Forward: A Guide for Local Funders

Press Forward (2024), 23 pp.

Impact Framework for Media Projects. Toolkit

International Media Support (IMS);Local Media for Democracy Project;European Federation of Journalists (EFJ);Journalismfund Europe;Centre of Media Pluralism (2024), 13 pp.
"The impact framework is a set of tools and guidelines that helps to define targets for, track, and assess the impact of activities under the supported media projects in a clear and organised way; it can also be used for other media projects. Its methodology embraces a user-centric approach, links p ... more
"This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations' datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodolo ... more
"The COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the new normal. Multipoint videoconferencing in particular has become a favored means for web-based forms of remote communication and collaboration without physical copresence. Takin ... more
"Carrying out regional consultations with multiple stakeholders can help establish a shared understanding of major challenges and build consensus about promising paths forward. They are particularly useful in complex environments with many different actors. This guide provides some practical guidanc ... more
"This exploratory study uses the Design Thinking framework and starts by mapping elements related to church growth from different works of literature and local successful churches’ experiences. Using this list of elements, a survey was designed to provide an overview of the existing internal resou ... more

Research Handbook on Design Thinking

Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2023), xiii, 327 pp.
"With thirty-six expert contributors representing a wide range of disciplines, this Research Handbook contains seventeen chapters structured into three thematic parts to explore the people, processes, and practices of design thinking. Method case studies demonstrate how design thinking has been impl ... more
"DW Akademie initiated a human-centered design (HCD) process as a starting point for a media development project in Ethiopia. The aim was to develop a better understanding and assess the current situation regarding misinformation and disinformation. The process with journalists and media experts fro ... more

Narrative Spices: An Innovational Guide for Flavourful Human Rights

Bogotá; Washington, DC: JustLabs;Fund for Global Human Rights (2022), 66 pp.
"This document is a different kind of guide. Meaning, it's less of a guide and more of an invitation. An invitational guide, if you will. For us, narrative research has become one door into a bigger, older, interrelated question about how we inspire one another to change. This document tries to conn ... more
"The aim of this Open Science and Peacebuilding Toolkit is to provide an open, living collection of resources for innovation hubs operating in conflict or post-conflict environments, creating a joint framework for open science and peacebuilding in action. It seeks to enable makerspaces across the wo ... more
"This note aims to support DT Global staff and partners to: understand DT Global's adaptive management framework; assess if and what level of adaptive management is required for a program; the difference between adaptive management and good program management; and initial steps to apply adaptive man ... more
"The How-to Note is a brief, user-friendly guide that helps program design teams understand and prioritize the Digital Principles most relevant to their work. Through a series of leading questions and worksheets, this digital activity design checklist provides actionable guidance for each Digital Pr ... more