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Should We Still be Doing ICT4D Research?
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), issue 88: e12215 (2022), 12 pp.
"In over 30 years of history, the field of Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) has asserted itself both within Information Systems (IS) and across disciplines. However, the core assumptions on which the field was built have been questioned over time, resulting in a situa
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Specification Curve Analysis Shows That Social Media Use is Linked to Poor Mental Health, Especially Among Girls
Acta Psychologica, volume 224, issue 103512 (2022), 11 pp.
"An important 2019 paper applied a novel analytic technique called Specification Curve Analysis (SCA) to data from three large-scale community samples to investigate the association between adolescent technology use and mental health/well-being. The paper concluded that an association exists but is
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Was heißt digitale Souveränität? Diskurse, Praktiken und Voraussetzungen »individueller« und »staatlicher Souveränität« im digitalen Zeitalter
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 320 pp.
"Die neuen sozio-technischen Verhältnisse der digitalen Transformation fordern neuzeitliche Konzepte des »souveränen Staates« und des »souveränen Subjekts« heraus, was in Debatten um »digitale Souveränität« problematisiert wird. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes diskutieren diese Herausford
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Digitalität tanzen! Über Commoning & Computing
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 129 pp.
"Digitale Technologien sind eine Zumutung! Um dies zu ändern, sollten wir uns nicht von ihnen abwenden, sondern uns eingehender mit ihrer transformatorischen Macht befassen. Shintaro Miyazaki ruft dazu auf, die alternativen Rhythmen des kooperativen, solidarischen Zusammenlebens (Commoning) operabe
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Media Literacy and Disinformation Perception Survey
Tbilisi: Media Development Foundation (MDF) (2022), 37 pp.
"The aim of this research was to study media consumption habits among different age groups and geographical areas, as well as the public's vulnerability to various disinformation and manipulative narratives disseminated in Georgia. The first part of the research concerns media literacy competencies,
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Interrogating Datafication: Towards a Praxeology of Data
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 308 pp.
"What constitutes a data practice and how do contemporary digital media technologies reconfigure our understanding of practices in general? Autonomously acting media, distributed digital infrastructures, and sensor-based media environments challenge the conditions of accounting for data practices bo
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Digital Public Goods Platforms for Development: The Challenge of Scaling
Information Society, volume 38, issue 5 (2022), pp. 364-376
"In this article we consider the notion of digital global public good and articulate our understanding of it. Against this conceptual foil, we examine the development of DHIS2 (District Health Information Software Version 2), a global health platform inspired by public goods, focusing on the paradox
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Cyber Security Politics: Socio-Technological Transformations and Political Fragmentation
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xii, 272 pp.
"Structured along two broad themes and providing empirical examples for how socio-technical changes and political responses interact, the first part of the book looks at the current use of cyberspace in conflictual settings, while the second focuses on political responses by state and non-state acto
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"These recommendations are targeted towards individuals working with sensitive sources on high-level projects that uncover government or corporate misdeeds. We have drafted a few additional steps you should keep in mind if you will be communicating with sensitive sources. Following the below steps w
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Device Location Security
Internews (2022), 4 pp.
"This guide looks at how our mobile devices could leak data about our locations and what we could do to protect ourselves against it. It’s designed for most Central European journalists’ threat models and only looks at how our mobile devices could give up precise location data on us. It doesn’
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The Unfreedom Monitor: Data Governance
Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 11 pp.
"Data governance is an integral aspect of digital authoritarianism because it incorporates any type of control, authority, and manipulation of data […]. Within the context of digital authoritarianism, data governance may incorporate both states and non-state actors that collaborate with states to
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Datafest Africa22 Report
Datafest Africa; Pollicy (2022), 18 pp.
"DataFest Africa is an annual event that seeks to celebrate data use in the region by bringing together a variety of stakeholders of diverse backgrounds such as government, civil society, academics, students and private industry experts under one roof and theme. Since 2019, Pollicy, with support fro
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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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A New Deal for Journalism in Africa. Part 1: Three Pillars for Bringing Platforms to Pay Fair Value for Public Interest Journalism
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 9 pp.
"Worldwide, the revenue base for journalism has been disrupted by digital innovation and the dominance of technology platforms in the audience and advertiser-facing markets. Revenue models relied upon by news and information services have collapsed, and credible journalism and its social function ar
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Mapping of Legal Framework and Responses by Actors to Address Harmful Content Online in Kenya
Build Up (2022), 47 pp.
"This report details the legal framework / rule of law tools in place, and responses by the government, social media companies, and civil society to address illegal harmful content and potentially harmful content online in Kenya. This research draws from 13 interviews with people active in Kenya's g
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Let the Net Work: Internet Shutdowns in India 2022
New Delhi: SFLC (2022), 48 pp.
"The observations made in this report make emphatically clear the failings of the current legal framework in defending human rights in the context of access to the internet. As seen in the report, the disruption of access to the internet is triggered at the most menial of instances, including for re
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How-To Note: Addressing the Principles for Digital Development in Project and Activity Design
Key Guides
USAID (2022), 20 pp.
"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
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Technologien der Krise: Die Covid-19-Pandemie als Katalysator neuer Formen der Vernetzung
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 199 pp.
Revisiting Digital Inclusion: A Survey of Theory, Measurement and Recent Research
Manchester: Centre for Digital Development (2022), 50 pp.
"Focusing on the internet as a foundational technology, this paper begins by summarising recent developments in digital inclusion theory, particularly as this relates to developing countries. It sets out a framework of core components of digital inclusion - including access/use, quality of access/us
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