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A Valuing Impact Toolkit for ICT Investment
NEF Consulting; Digital Impact Alliance (dial) (2020), 124 pp.
"ICT4D projects are known for having social, economic, and environmental impacts that are difficult to capture. Investments in digital infrastructure and innovation often have high up-front costs with largely medium-to-long-term benefits, not quick, short-term outcomes desired by policy makers. The
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Media and Information Literacy Index. Country Report Burkina Faso
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 28 pp.
"Reliable, high quality information is a key priority for the young generation in Burkina Faso. Perhaps as a consequence of political insecurities and the prevalence of violent extremism, a majority of young people between 15 and 25 years seems very aware of the negative consequences of malevolent f
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Evaluación de las competencias digitales de estudiantes de educación obligatoria: Diseño, validación y presentación de la prueba Ecodies
Barcelona: Octaedro (2020), 232 pp.
"El imparable progreso tecnológico, los nuevos dispositivos electrónicos que se van incorporando al mercado, a la sociedad y a los centros educativos, demandan la adquisición y desarrollo de competencias digitales sólidas entre los ciudadanos. Dado que es en la etapa de Educación Obligatoria cu
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Identidad digital: Cómo administrar la presencia en la red
Buenos Aires: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 50 pp.
"Deberemos nacer —mejor dicho, renacer— en Internet si queremos tener futuro. De ahí la importancia de los dominios personales, de los nick names, de los avatares y de nuestros perfiles públicos en redes sociales. Somos el rastro que dejamos y el que otros dejan de nosotros. Es lo primero que
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ICT4D 3.0? Part 1—The Components of an Emerging “Digital-For-Development” Paradigm
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), volume 86, issue 3 (2020), 15 pp.
"What has changed in the decade or so since the ideas of a new “ICT4D 2.0” phase were first mooted? This paper reviews those changes, based on a new framework model. At a foundational level, it looks at recent and current trends in digital technologies, data, processes and the implications these
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Analysis of Ethiopia’s Hate Speech and Disinformation Prevention and Suppression Proclamation No.1185/2020
Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 4 pp.
"Although the Proclamation has good intentions of curbing hate speech in Ethiopia, it fundamentally restricts freedom of expression online and the right to information. Further, the proclamation has a chilling effect on online and offline rights, which could lead to self-censorship. For instance, jo
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Media Literacy Toolbox
Waltham: Education Development Center (2020), 63 pp.
"Higher levels of disposable incomes, growing urbanization and mobility, and further industrialization in some parts of the world are leading to growing amounts of EEE. On average, the total weight (excluding photovoltaic panels) of global EEE consumption increases annually by 2.5 million metric ton
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Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2020), xiii, 259 pp.
"This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network – without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collect
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Muster: Theorie der digitalen Gesellschaft
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 352 pp.
"Techniken etablieren sich nur dann, wenn sie ein Problem lösen. Auch digitale Technik setzt einen Bedarf voraus. Von diesem Grundgedanken ausgehend, beschäftigt sich der Soziologie Armin Nassehi mit der Frage, welches gesellschaftliche Problem Digitalisierung löst. Seine Antwort verweist darauf,
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Media and Information Literacy Index. Country Report Côte D’Ivoire
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 27 pp.
"Young Ivorians are adept at using digital media. They are creative when it comes to using digital media and many have developed strategies to cope with media malpractices such as cyberbullying or hate speech. These are two significant, indicative findings from the present MIL INDEX country study. B
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Nachhaltigkeit und das 'gute Leben' – Zur Verantwortung der Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft in digitalen Gesellschaften
Publizistik, volume 65, issue 1 (2020), pp. 7-20
"Die Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft steht in digitalen Gesellschaften vor zentralen Herausforderungen und einer wissenschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung. In diesem Artikel werden zwei zentrale Konzepte vorgestellt, mit denen sich die Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft zune
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Medien bilden Werte: Digitalisierung als pädagogische Aufgabe
München: kopaed (2020), 333 pp.
"Das Buch erscheint anlässlich des 25-jährigen Bestehens von Interaktiv, dem Münchner Netzwerk Medienkompetenz. Die Autor*innen werfen einen Blick zurück, beleuchten den Stand der Medienpädagogik mit ihren aktuellen Herausforderungen und wagen auch verschiedene Blicke nach vorn. Mit diesem Buch
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Digital Citizenship Toolkit
Key Guides
MinorMatters; National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (2020), xiv, 185 pp.
"This Digital Citizenship Toolkit (DCT) is an attempt to introduce key concepts related to digital citizenship while taking into account the local socio-economic realities, technology adoption patterns, societal actions and other considerations. For young people, in particular, the demarcation betwe
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Prosumidores y comunicación en la era digital
Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) (2020), 107 pp.
Acciones ciudadanas para verificar información
Caracas: Espacio Público (2020), 29 pp.
Media and Information Literacy Index. Country Report Ghana
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 27 pp.
"Ghana’s youth is embracing digital. According to the representative survey conducted for DW Akademie’s MIL INDEX study, three quarters of 15-25-year-olds own a smartphone. Over 70 % report going online with a mobile phone as well as using Facebook and WhatsApp on a weekly basis. Use of several
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The Digital Exclusion of Women with Disabilities: A Study of Seven Low- and Middle-Income Countries
London: GSMA (2020), 43 pp.
"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga
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Global Information Society Watch 2020. Technology, the Environment and a Sustainable World: Responses from the Global South
Deep Insights
"The world is facing an unprecedented climate and environmental emergency. Scientists have identified human activity as primarily responsible for the climate crisis, which together with rampant environmental pollution, and the unbridled activities of the extractive and agricultural industries, pose
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