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Exposed and Exploited: Data Protection in the Middle East and North Africa
Access Now (2021), 45 pp.
"In this report, we highlight how privacy and data protection violations by state and non-state actors are compounded by the lack of legal data protection safeguards which would obligate public entities, private companies, and international organizations to respect and adhere to data protection prin
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Estadísticas de las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación en los Hogares. Trimestre: Enero-Febrero-Marzo 2021
Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas e Información (INEI) (2021), 49 pp.
"El 66,8% de la población de 6 y más años de edad del país accede a Internet. Respecto a similar trimestre de 2020, se observa un aumento de 6,5 puntos porcentuales al pasar de 60,3% a 66,8%. Por área de residencia, en Lima Metropolitana la población usuaria de Internet significó el 80,9%, en
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Towards the Evaluation of Socio-Digital ID Ecosystems in Africa: Comparative Analysis of Findings from Ten Country Case Studies
Centre for Internet and Society (CIS); Research ICT Africa (2021), 61 pp.
"Efforts to establish or improve national identification systems in Africa have coincided with the increasing deployment of mobile technology. This has led to the prioritisation of digital “solutions” for facilitating forms of identification and registration – often via biometric attributes [.
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Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks
New York: Columbia University Press (2021), xi, 449 pp.
"This book details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations. Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts. Through more than five hundred examples, he demonstrates the do's and don'ts of
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The Global Smartphone: Beyond a Youth Technology
London: UCL Press (2021), xxiv; 295 pp.
"The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their r
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La transición digital: Retos y oportunidades para Iberoamérica
Madrid: Fundación Carolina (2021), 216 pp.
The Rise of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (BAT) and Their Role in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
Global Media and Communication, volume 17, issue 1 (2021), pp. 67-86
"The Chinese digital technology giants, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (BAT), dominate over their competitors in China across platforms that include e-commerce, digital entertainment, e-finance and artificial intelligence (AI). To understand BAT’s corporate power and their strategic role working with
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El smartphone global: Más allá de una tecnología para jóvenes
London: UCL Press (2021), xxvii, 313 pp.
"El smartphone se ha convertido tanto en un lugar dentro del cual vivimos como en un aparato que usamos para tener “oportunismo perpetuo”, pues siempre está con nosotros. Los autores muestran cómo el smartphone es más un “aparato con aplicaciones” y exploran las diferencias entre lo que l
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Deployment of a Community Information Platform in Santo Antão Island: A Case Study from Cabo Verde
In: C&T '21: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies
New York: Association for Computing Machinery (2021), pp. 160-168
"We present a case study of a community media project development Alert4You and describe the process of fostering a local community information platform through socio-technical innovation in 4 rural and remote island communities of Santo Antão in Republic of Cabo Verde. A mix of analogous and digit
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Plans nationaux pour les télécommunications d’urgence: Catalyseurs et garanties. Guide succinct d'évaluation à l’intention des spécialistes des politiques publiques
London: GSMA (2021), 16 pp.
"Ce guide a pour but d'aider à identifier les lacunes, les opportunités et les faiblesses du système afin de guider la définition d’une stratégie nationale plus cohérente et de positionner la téléphonie mobile comme appui aux activités de préparation, de réponse et de relèvement en cas
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Internet Shutdowns and Elections Handbook: A Guide for Election Observers, Embassies, Activists, and Journalists
Access Now; KeepItOn (2021), 10 pp.
"This handbook explains how internet shutdowns undermine democractic elections and provides tips and recommendations for key actors to navigate shutdowns and understand and assess the extent to which an election taking place under a shutdown is free and fair. It is aimed at election observers, peopl
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10 Facts to Counter Encryption Myths
Access Now (2021), 23 pp.
"There is no question that we must address the issues of child safety, disinformation, national security, and criminal activity in the digital age. However, even if the stated end goal for mandating encryption backdoors is legitimate, the means must be necessary and proportionate. Deliberately intro
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Mozilla Fellowships and Awards Program: Evaluation and Impact Narrative. An Evaluation of Mozilla’s Fellowships & Awards Program Strategy and Impact from the Beginning of 2016 Through Mid-2020
Mozilla Foundation (2021), 128 pp.
"This evaluation is an analysis of the Mozilla Foundation’s grantmaking and fellowship work led by the F&A team from the beginning of 2016 through mid-2020. It seeks to understand: 1) the impacts of the programs on individual funding recipients and organizational partners, on the issues the progra
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"Between 2016 and 2021, 68 shutdowns have been documented in 29 African countries. This demonstrates that government-mandated internet disruptions are an established norm in the region, despite very little scientific or social evidence demonstrating their effectiveness. A number of pointers and fact
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The Economics of Digital Transformation: The Disruption of Markets, Production, Consumption, and Work
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xix, 283 pp.
"The book refers to academic insights from economics and sociology while giving numerous empirical examples drawn from basic and applied research and business. It addresses several burning issues: how are digital processes transforming traditional business models? Does intelligent automation threate
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