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Connected Resilience: Gendered Experiences of Meaningful Connectivity through a Global Pandemic
Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (2024), 57 pp.
"Looking at patterns between those with meaningful connectivity — defined as having daily internet use with 4G-like speeds, owning a smartphone, and an unlimited access point at home, work, or a place of study — and those with just basic or no internet access at all, we saw key distinctions betw
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Good Practices for Subsea Cables Policy: Investing in Digital Inclusion
Alexandria, VA: Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (2024), 19 pp.
"A thriving digital economy depends on all people being able to connect to the internet. Achieving global connectivity requires maintaining and growing the vast network of subsea cables that connect most around the world to the internet. This brief provides an introduction to the current policy and
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The price of the world in your pocket: A price only some can afford. 2024 Device Pricing
Alexandria, VA: Global Digital Inclusion Partnership (2024), 9 pp.
"The median price for a smartphone globally is US$92.59. The lowest regional median price is in Africa, at $60.23, while the highest is $101.88 in the Americas. The median global affordability (defined as price as a percentage of average monthly income) for a smartphone is 11%. Europe has the greate
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Measuring Digital Development. Facts and Figures: Focus on Small Island Developing States
Deep Insights
Geneva: ITU (2024), v, 33 pp.
"In this special edition of ITU's Facts and Figures series, we explore the impressive progress and ongoing obstacles Small Island Developing States (SIDS) encounter amid the digital revolution. On the occasion of the fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4), our goal
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Plugging into Timor-Leste’s digital ecosystem: Preparing for the nation’s first submarine internet cable
ABC International Development (2024), 4 pp.
"Cumulatively, this research points to the need for increasing efforts to ensure knowledge gaps around the submarine cable are addressed, and that definitions and analyses of topics such as mis- and disinformation, and digital literacy, are developed, shared, and adopted in ways that respond to Timo
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An Urgent Call for Fair Working Conditions in Africa
Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork; African Platform Workers Representatives (APWR) (2024), 10 pp.
"The APWR calls on regional institutions and national government agencies to consider the following recommendations: 1. Standardise commission rates [...]
2. Mandate platforms to provide risk mitigation strategies and safety nets [...]
3. The contracts and/or terms and conditions must be subject to
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The promises and pitfalls of cryptocurrencies and blockchain for marginalized communities
Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 11 (2024), pp. 1979-1996
"Cryptocurrencies, and the blockchain technology that underlies them, have attracted much attention over the last decade from scholars, tech communities, financial institutions, states and more. The extreme volatility of the cryptocurrency market has made some people very rich and cost others almost
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Fairwork India Ratings 2024: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy.
Bangalore; Oxford: Fairwork (2024), 39 pp.
"1. Only bigbasket and Urban Company were awarded the first point under Fair Pay for instituting a minimum wage policy that guaranteed all their workers earn at least the hourly local minimum wage after factoring in work-related costs. No platform earned the second point under Fair Pay, which requir
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Impact Assessment: Rural Household Devices Project Program of the Uganda Communications Universal Service Access Fund (UCUSAF)
Alexandria, VA; Kampala: Global Digital Inclusion Partnership; Uganda Communications Commission (2024), 46 pp.
"The impact assessment underscores the commendable achievements of the Rural Household Devices project. By December 2023, the initiative had successfully reached 54 districts and impacted 10,706 households. The outcomes are multifaceted and transformative, with a substantial number of beneficiaries
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Repairing the harm: Toward an algorithmic reparations approach to hate speech content moderation
Big Data & Society, issue April-June (2024), 13 pp.
"Content moderation algorithms influence how users understand and engage with social media platforms. However, when identifying hate speech, these automated systems often contain biases that can silence or further harm marginalized users. Recently, scholars have offered both restorative and transfor
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Harvesting value: Corporate strategies of data assetization in agriculture and their socio-ecological implications
Big Data & Society (2024), 15 pp.
"The global food system is characterized by market concentration and oligopoly. In our article, we focus on the most powerful input supply and machinery companies and analyze how these firms create value, both economic and otherwise, from big data. In digital capitalism, data is valorized across sec
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Media and Democracy in the Middle East
London; New York: Routledge (2024), 176 pp.
"Since the outburst and spread of what was known as the ‘Arab Uprisings’ in 2010, the political and media landscapes in the Middle East region have dramatically changed. The initial hope for democratic change and governance quality improvements has faded, as several regimes in the Middle East ha
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Gaming: Digitale Spiele
Wien: Saferinternet.at (2024), 6 pp.
Case law on content moderation and freedom of expression
New York: Columbia University, Global Freedom of Expression, 2nd ed. (2024), 29 pp.
"This edition of the Special Collection on the Case Law of Freedom of Expression: Case law on content moderation and freedom of expression is an update of the 2023 Special Collection on content moderation and freedom of expression. It includes cases that have been added to the database in the period
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