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Power Hungry: How AI Will Drive Energy Demand
Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund (IMF) (2025), 28 pp.
"The development and deployment of large language models like ChatGPT across the world requires expanding data centers that consume vast amounts of electricity. Using descriptive statistics and a multi-country computable general equilibrium model (IMF-ENV), we examine how AI-driven data center growt
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Developing an Artificial Intelligence Maturity Assessment Framework for South Africa. First Annual AI Maturity Assessment 2025
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All; University of the Western Cape (UWC) (2025), 107 pp.
"The South African AI MAF serves as a foundational tool for guiding the country’s progress towards AI maturity and is tailored to the country’s unique socioeconomic, cultural, and technological realities. It furthermore aligns with broader continental ambitions (i.e. African Union’s 2024 Conti
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Empowering Youth to Combat Malicious Deepfakes and Disinformation: An Experiential and Reflective Learning Experience Informed by Personal Construct Theory
Journal of Constructivist Psychology, volume 38, issue 1 (2025), 22 pp.
"The potential to weaponize deepfakes is growing at an alarming rate. The study aimed to explore how education can help youth develop resilience to malicious deepfakes and the ability to counter disinformation, regardless of context. Sixteen youth between the ages of 18 and 24 participated in a 9-h,
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Wanderer between the worlds: Telegram use from the users’ perspective
Publizistik, volume 70 (2025), pp. 133-155
"The messenger Telegram has gained importance for the mediated constitution of counterpublics in German-speaking countries since 2020. However, most research on Telegram focuses on the content shared and the networks that have developed on the platform. Meanwhile, knowledge about the users of counte
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Critical ICT4D: Information and Communication Technologies for Development
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xiv, 199 pp.
"The edited volume Critical ICT4D highlights the need for a paradigm change in theorising, designing, and researching Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Engaging authors from the Majority World and entering a process of restoring epistemic justice in knowledge produc
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World Bank Open Data: Data 360
Deep Insights
Washington: World Bank (2025)
"Data360 consolidates 300 million data points for more than 200 economies, covering more than 10,000 indicators that are disaggregated by sex, age, employment, location, income, education level, and more. It gives users a 360-degree view of development challenges and progress across five focus are
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Measuring Digital Development: The ICT Development Index
Geneva: ITU (2025), iv, 36 pp.
"I am pleased to present the 2025 edition of the ICT Development Index (IDI). This is the third edition based on the revised methodology adopted by Member States in 2023. The current IDI is anchored in the concept of universal and meaningful connectivity (UMC), a term coined by ITU in 2021 that has
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Gendered inequalities of platform work in Africa: Findings from a multi-country analysis
Platforms & Society, volume 2 (2025), 16 pp.
"Hopes that the growth of platform work in Africa will provide new opportunities for women’s employment have not yet been matched by empirical research. Based on a five-country survey of workers on 18 platforms across four sectors (ride-hailing, delivery, professional, microtasks), the research re
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Deepening the data divide: Marginalised perspectives and non-profit priorities in Australian data sharing reforms
Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 13 pp.
"This paper investigates open public data and data sharing reforms in Australia (2018–2022) and their potential role in deepening the ‘data divide’. In the contemporary datafied welfare state, open public data and data sharing are increasingly vexed issues in times of data-driven artificial in
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Learning, Digital Skills, and the Global South
Cheltenham (UK); Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing (2025), vi, 122 pp.
"With our modern world relying more and more on Internet-based technologies, this timely book takes a renewed look at the ever-increasing digital divide between developing and more technologically advanced countries and the resulting impacts on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Jef
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Information Ecosystems and Troubled Democracy: The State of Knowledge on News Media, AI, and Data Governance
Göteborg: Nordicom, University of Gothenburg; Observatory on Information and Democracy (2025), 305 pp.
"A critical assessment of why today’s information ecosystems are troubling for democracy, this book, based on research in the Global North and Global Majority World, examines changes in news media, artificial intelligence, and data governance. It focuses on measures to improve the quality of publi
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Bias in der künstlichen Intelligenz
Bonn: Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (2025), 34 pp.
"Bias ist eine tiefgreifende Problematik für Systeme der Künstlichen Intelligenz, die eine Gefährdung für den sicheren Einsatz von solchen Systemen darstellen kann. Der richtige Umgang mit Bias ist komplex und erfordert eine umfassende Beschäftigung mit der Thematik. Diese Publikation soll Entw
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Measuring what matters: How to assess AI’s environmental impact
Geneva: ITU (2025), viii, 21 pp.
This report synthesizes key findings from a diverse range of sources, including academic literature, corporate sustainability initiatives, and emerging environmental tracking tools. Collectively, these documents provide a thorough overview of current methodologies for evaluating the environmental im
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Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power
Deep Insights
London: Zed Books; Bloomsbury Publishing (2025), xiv, 286 pp.
"This open access book provides ten in-depth case studies of state-sponsored internet shutdowns across all regions of Africa. In so doing, it offers the first-ever comparative analysis of how African states use internet shutdowns as tools to close civic space, suppress opposition, and maintain power
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AI for Good Innovate for Impact. Interim Report 2025
Geneva: ITU (2025), xxxiv, 828 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way we address complex societal challenges, offering new possibilities in areas such as healthcare, climate resilience, education, and digital inclusion. The Innovate for Impact project was launched in 2024 to identify, support, and showcase practical A
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Tools for Reporting Online Violence Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them
Tech Policy Press, Aug 28 (2025)
"For several years now, we’ve seen leading social media platforms make dramatic cuts to their trust and safety teams, often in the name of ‘efficiency.’ Unfortunately, the results have been predictable: Harassment and online threats on those same platforms are more widespread than ever, and th
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After visibility: Data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce
Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 13 pp.
"Since 2020, Douyin, an app known for its interactive entertainment and vibrant youth cultures, has risen to dominance in the retail sector. Douyin stands out by making paid traffic a significant revenue stream alongside commissions. This strategy, which restricts organic growth, compels sellers to
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Cybercrime-Trends 2025
Köln: sosafe (2025), 22 pp.
"Die Reichweite der Cybercrime-Branche hat einen neuen Höhepunkt erreicht. 72% aller Organisationen weltweit berichten vom steigenden Cyberrisiko. Der Schaden durch Cybercrime betrug 2024 allein in Deutschland 178,6 Mrd. Euro. Das sind 20% mehr als im Vorjahr. Cyberkriminelle hängen Organisatione
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