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Ghana’s E-Learning Program During Pandemic Presents Access Challenges for Many Students

Mavis Zupork Dome, Daniel Armah-Attoh
Afrobarometer (2020), 9 pp.
"Afrobarometer findings show that radio and television are the most widely accessible platforms for students seeking to participate in MoE/GES e-learning programs, although rural and poor households are at a disadvantage when it comes to owning these devices. The data show relatively low rates of ac ... more
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Listening Into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri

Tripta Chandola
Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 149 pp.
"The essays collected here are based on two decades of engagement with the residents of the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi. The book presents stories of many kinds, from speculative treatises, via the recollection of a thousand everyday conversations, to an account of the making of ... more
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101 Online-Seminarmethoden: Methoden und Strategien für die Online- und Blended-Learning-Seminarpraxis

Hartmut Häfele, Kornelia Meier-Häfele
Bonn: managerSeminare, 2nd ed. (2020), 360 pp.
"Ein Fundus mit 101 praxiserprobten Methoden für die Vorbereitung, Durchführung und Evaluierung von Online-Seminaren. Zusammen mit leicht verständlichen technischen Anregungen bietet dieses Werk Anregungen für alle Weiterbildungsprofis, die die Möglichkeiten des Online-Lernens in ihre Seminarge ... more
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Limited Internet Access in Zimbabwe a Major Hurdle for Remote Learning During Pandemic

Simangele Moyo-Nyede, Stephen Ndoma
Afrobarometer (2020), 13 pp.
"The government of Zimbabwe is encouraging the use of digital platforms to provide remote learning services during the COVID-19 pandemic, but data showing that most households lack Internet access and reliable electricity suggest that many students will find it difficult or impossible to participate ... more
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Nachsynodales Apostolisches Schreiben 'Querida Amazonia' von Papst Franziskus an das Volk Gottes und an alle Menschen guten Willens

Franziskus (Papst)
Bonn: Sekretariat der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz (2020), 158 pp.
"Ich träume von einem Amazonien, das für die Rechte der Ärmsten, der ursprünglichen (autochthonen) Völker, der Geringsten kämpft, wo ihre Stimme gehört und ihre Würde gefördert wird. Ich träume von einem Amazonien, das seinen charakteristischen kulturellen Reichtum bewahrt, wo auf so unter ... more
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Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Demand Reduction Guidebook

RTI International
USAID Wildlife Asia; FHI 360 (2020), 69 pp.
"This Guidebook provides simple, easy-to-follow steps on how to use a social behavior change communication (SBCC) approach to plan, implement, and evaluate campaigns to reduce demand for wildlife products. To facilitate understanding and application, each step is illustrated by a case example from t ... more
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Saving Lives and Changing Minds with Twitter in Disasters and Pandemics: A Literature Review

Hamed Seddighi, Ibrahim Salmani, Saeideh Seddighi
Journalism and Media, volume 1, issue 1 (2020), pp. 59-77
"Twitter is a major tool for communication during emergencies and disasters. This study aimed to investigate Twitter use during natural hazards and pandemics. The included studies reported the role of Twitter in disasters triggered by natural hazards. Electronic databases were used for a comprehensi ... more
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Communication for Development (C4D): Advancing Positive Social and Behaviour Change. Supplement to the Global Annual Results Reports 2019

New York: UNICEF (2020), 50 pp.
"This supplement to the 2019 Global Annual Results Reports highlights achievements over the past year which illustrate concrete ways in which C4D approaches strengthen UNICEF programming. The report also highlights challenges identified and immediate priorities to address them. C4D contributes to ad ... more
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Human-Centred Design in Humanitarian Settings: Methodologies for Inclusivity
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London: GSMA (2020), 40 pp.
"To ensure that mobile solutions are designed inclusively in humanitarian contexts, it is important that target users are involved as co-creators of the future they want. A human-centred design approach is one way to ensure that users’ perspectives are fully integrated into programme design. This ... more
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Comunicación en tiempos del COVID-19

Instituto para el Desarrollo Rural de Sudamérica (IPDRS); Acción Cultural Loyola (ACLO) (2020), 15 pp.
"En el caso de la población rural, prácticamente 70 % percibe que no tiene suficiente información, en el caso de la población urbana este porcentaje es menor a 50 %. Confrontando esta información con los medios y la disponibilidad, la explicación más razonable es que no se trata necesariament ... more
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Social Media and Vaccine Hesitancy: New Updates for the Era of COVID-19 and Globalized Infectious Diseases

Neha Puri, Eric A. Coomes, Hourmazd Haghbayan, Keith Gunaratne
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, volume 16, issue 11 (2020), pp. 2586-2593
"Despite major advances in vaccination over the past century, resurgence of vaccine-preventable illnesses has led the World Health Organization to identify vaccine hesitancy as a major threat to global health. Vaccine hesitancy may be fueled by health information obtained from a variety of sources, ... more
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Media Policy in a Pandemic: Lessons from Moldova, Ukraine and Latvia

Anastasia Nani, Lolita Buka, Gina Lentine
Washington, DC: Freedom House (2020), 8 pp.
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Journalism and the Pandemic: A Global Snapshot of Impacts

Julie Posetti, Emily Bell, Pete Brown
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University (2020), 30 pp.
"Our report demonstrates that journalists are working in a severely pressured financial, physical and psychological environment during the pandemic. This will be the most enduringly difficult professional period many have experienced during their careers. There is the added complication of an inform ... more
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Video for Change Impact Toolkit
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EngageMedia; Video4Change Network (2020)
"This toolkit shows you step-by-step how to create impact projects using video. It is designed for documentary video-makers, journalists and organisations using video to engage and create change in their communities. EngageMedia has produced this toolkit in partnership with the Video4Change Network: ... more
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COVID-19: The Role of Judicial Operators in the Protection and Promotion of the Right to Freedom of Expression: Guidelines

Joan Barata
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 13 pp.
"Judges and courts, both at national and regional levels, will find these guidelines useful to ensure the application of international and regional human rights standards of freedom of expression and privacy when ruling on cases involving States’ responses to the COVID-19 outbreak that have an imp ... more
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Rapid Review: Vaccine Hesitancy and Building Confidence in COVID-19 Vaccination

Tabitha Hrynick, Santiago Ripoll, Megan Schmidt-Sane
Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP) (2020), 18 pp.
"This brief draws on social science literature and informal interviews with experts to illustrate that vaccine hesitancy is more complex and context-specific, and often reflects diverse, everyday anxieties – not just, or even primarily, exposure to misinformation or anti-vaccine campaigners. Based ... more
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Guidance for Covering Suicide and Self-Harm in Documentaries

Samaritans (2020), 5 pp.
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From Distrust to Solidarity: How Can We Inform People About Coronavirus? Recommendations

Igor Balynskyi, Nataliya Gumenyuk, Denys Kobzin, Angelina Kariakina, Peter Pomerantsev
Lviv; London: Public Interest Journalism Lab; Lviv Media Forum; London School of Economics and Political Science (2020), 17 pp.
"The audience has clear requests concerning the presentation of information and the range of themes. In our opinion the following observations are most important: There is a need to separate useful information in the media from “information noise”, as the latter can raise anxiety. Trust is felt ... more
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How Best to Communicate on Migration and Integration in the Context of COVID-19?

OECD (2020), 9 pp.
"In the context of the COVID 19 pandemic, effective communication on migration and integration has helped governments achieve crucial policy objectives: First, in order to limit the spread of the virus, governments need to provide all parts of the population, including migrants, with timely and accu ... more
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Guidelines on Distance Education During COVID-19

Burnaby, Canada: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2020), 14 pp.
"The Guidelines provide practical directions for the use of distance education tools and practices to support teaching and learning and offer suggestions on the use of appropriate technology to address the social and pedagogical issues of learning in a crisis situation. The purpose is to provide a r ... more