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"This report has documented the surveillance measures and practices in Kenya and Uganda during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The key trends include poor oversight over COVID-19 data collection, the lack of independent data protection authorities, the use of telecommunications data to ‘t
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Engendering AI: A Gender and Ethics Perspective on Artificial Intelligence in Africa
Pollicy (2021), 22 pp.
"Although AI solutions have the potential to drive growth and development across major sectors such as finance, agriculture, and healthcare, the AI industry is currently still based in North America, Europe, and Asia, with Africa, unfortunately, still underrepresented (Jungblut, 2020). This is a thr
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Sustainable, Universal Access to the Internet: Environmental Implications and Policy Choices
Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation (2021), 29 pp.
"This report analyses how governments are building climate and carbon factors into their broadband policies, looks at the consequences of inaction, and suggests policy recommendations towards a greener internet. We compiled publicly available documents for the national broadband plans from the 100 l
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Making ICT Policy in Africa: An Introductory Handbook
Key Guides
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 71 pp.
"This introductory handbook to the development of ICT policy in Africa aims to assist law makers, government officials, lawyers, civil society organisations (CSOs), academics and members of the public engaged in the development and implementation of ICT policy. Its primary purpose is to provide an i
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Gender Digital Divide: Desk Review Report
Washington, DC: USAID (2021), viii, 87 pp.
"This desk review is the first phase of creating gender digital divide tools for USAID Gender Advisors. It provides an overview of the current status of the gender digital divide (with a particular focus on mobile phones and mobile Internet, although these are not the only aspects of the gender digi
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Communication Infrastructure and Community Mobilization: The Case of Gram Vaani’s Covid-19 Response Network for the Marginalized in India
Journal of Development Communication, volume 32, issue 2 (2021), pp. 73-86
"In this article, we employed communication infrastructure theory (CIT) to analyze Gram Vaani’s (“Voice of the Village”) Covid-19 Response Network in India. We reviewed key CIT components (i.e., storytelling network and communication action context) and their applications in civic engagement,
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Audience Transformations and New Audio Experiences: An Analysis of the Trends and Consumption Habits of Podcasts by Brazilian Listeners
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 18, issue 1 (2021), pp. 381-405
"According to a Voxnest report, 2019 was 'the year of the podcast in Brazil' (2019, page 4). The audio solutions provider reveals data on the increasing production and consumption of podcasts in Brazil in 2019 and how it continues to grow in 2020, despite the pandemic (Voxnest, 2020). This is the pr
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Schluss mit lustig? TikTok als Plattform für politische Kommunikation
Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2021), 22 pp.
"Verständnis der technischen und kulturellen Besonderheiten der algorithmusgetriebenen App, die vorhandene Bestandteile bereits bekannter Social-Media-Plattformen kombiniert und weiterentwickelt. Statt Reichweitenaufbau geht es bei TikTok um Vertrauensaufbau. Mithilfe eines Analyserasters werden im
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On the Psychology of TikTok Use: A First Glimpse from Empirical Findings
Frontiers in Public Health, volume 9, issue 641673 (2021), 6 pp.
"TikTok (in Chinese: DouYin; formerly known as musical.ly) currently represents one of the most successful Chinese social media applications in the world. Since its founding in September 2016, TikTok has seen widespread distribution, in particular, attracting young users to engage in viewing, creati
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Alfabetización mediática e informacional: Una guía práctica de capacitación
Key Guides
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie, 3rd ed. (2021), 241 pp.
"Hay una variedad de estrategias y enfoques que se pueden aplicar para enseñar a la Alfabetización mediática e informacional (AMI), los cuales se centran en el conocimiento, la actitud y las habilidades. Por supuesto, las y los capacitadores están en la libertad de modificar las metodologías pr
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"Over half a billion people who are living in areas with a mobile broadband network are not using mobile internet, despite substantial increases in mobile broadband coverage since 2014. Significant gender and rural-urban gaps persist. Women are 37% less likely to use mobile internet than men. Signif
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How Filipino Youth Identify and Act on Bullying and Harassment on Social Media
Manila: De La Salle University, Social Development Research Center (2021), 47 pp.
"[...] Filipino youth characterize bullying and harassment on social media as an intersection of three key dimensions: targets, acts and, spaces. We thus need to account for this by rethinking our understanding of how young people identify and experience them. Bullying and harassment on social media
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"This Information Sharing Protocol (ISP) is designed to support data responsibility in Somalia. Data responsibility in humanitarian action is the safe, ethical and effective management of personal and non-personal data for operational response, in accordance with established frameworks for personal
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