commbox Digitalisation

Filter

3063

Sort by:

Direction:

Download (0)

Travel Guide to the Digital World: Surveillance and International Standards

Michael Karanicolas

London: Global Partners Digital (2014), 98 pp.

"The internet has enabled an unprecedented ability to monitor and track people and information flows as highlighted in the 2013 revelations by Edward Snowden about online surveillance carried out by the United States’ National Security Agency. The revelations have kicked off debates across the wor ... more

Download (0)

Travel Guide to the Digital World: Internet Policy and Governance for Human Rights Defenders

Becky Hogge

London: Global Partners Digital (2014), 89 pp.

Download (0)

Internet Rights That Went Wrong in Turkey

Günes Tavmen

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2014), 17 pp.

"This report presents an up-to-date assessment of internet rights in Turkey, and has been prepared to coincide with the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2014 which is being hosted by Turkey in Istanbul from 2–5 September 2014. The IGF is a space that strives for a democratic and inclusive internet ... more

Download (0)

The Sub-Saharan African Media Landscape: Then, Now and in the Future

Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.

"Over five years Facebook has grown from practically no users in Sub-Saharan Africa to become the most widely used social media platform. In the four countries where face-to-face surveys were carried out for this research, between 14% (Tanzania) and 27% (Ghana) of all respondents were using it [...] ... more

Download (0)

Face-To-Face Survey Overview Summary Results

London: Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.

"Mobile ownership in all of the four surveys [in Ghana, Nothern Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania] was around 90%, making the mobile phone the most widely owned device media device, both used as a media carrier (radio) and a media in its own right (Internet, SMS) [...] Radio remains the dominant medium ... more

Download (0)

Feature Phone User Survey: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa

London: Balancing Act (2014), 64 pp.

"Feature phone users are significantly more likely to use the Internet almost as much radio and TV for news and information. This is not an either/or set of choices but the Internet is part of the range of media they use. Internet is in second position in Nigeria, third position in Ethiopia and Keny ... more

Download (0)

Net Children Go Mobile: Final Report

Giovanna Mascheroni, Andrea Cuman

Milano: Educatt (2014), 50 pp.

This report is based on a quantitative study of 3500 children, aged from 9 to 16 years in seven countries, and a qualitative study with 327 children and 230 adults (parents, teachers and educators) in nine European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain ... more

Download (0)

Overview of Information Literacy Resources Worldwide

Forest Woody Horton (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed. (2014), 668 pp.

"We are very, very pleased to advise you that we have added dozens of new languages to our multilingual database, more than doubling the 42 which appeared in the first edition. At the same time, we are very happy to report that there is a great deal of interest in maintaining this database as an imp ... more

Download (0)

The Link Between ICT4D and Modernization Theory

Marlene Kunst

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 22 pp.

"For some decades western institutions have shared an enormous enthusiasm for Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Nevertheless, despite the field’s ever-increasing importance, research on it remains fragmented and lacks a theoretical foundation. By establishing a li ... more

Download (0)

Locating Disaster Communication in Changing Communicative Ecologies Across the Pacific

Jessica Noske-Turner, Jo Tacchi, Heather Horst, Evangelia Papoutsaki

Australian Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (AJTDE), volume 2, issue 4 (2014), 16 pp.

"According to ITU statistics, around 60 percent of Pacific Islanders had access to a mobile in 2012, compared to just 10 percent in 2006. In many Pacific countries mobile phones are, therefore, emerging as a key element of the local communication systems, and are being be built into disaster managem ... more

Download (0)

Social Media in the Middle East: The Story of 2013

ictQATAR, Social Impact Department (2014), 30 slides

Download (0)

The Mobile Economy Latin America

London: GSMA (2014), 82 pp.

"The Latin America mobile market is now the fourth-largest globally, with almost 326 million unique subscribers and 718 million connections as of September of 2014. A little over half of the population in the region have now subscribed to a mobile service, a figure that is expected to reach almost 6 ... more

Download (0)

The Mobile Economy Sub-Saharan Africa 2014

London: GSMA (2014), 68 pp.

"Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been the fastest growing region over the last five years, in terms of both unique subscribers and connections. By June 2014, there were 329 million unique subscribers, equivalent to a penetration rate of 38%. Consumers, governments and businesses across SSA are rapidly ... more

Download (0)

The Mobile Economy Asia Pacific

London: GSMA (2014), 72 pp.

"Asia Pacific is the world’s largest mobile region but also one of the most diverse regions in terms of the levels of both economic and mobile market development. Asia Pacific dominates the global mobile industry in terms of both unique subscribers and connections, having seen significant growth o ... more

Download (0)

Global Internet Report 2014: Open and Sustainable Access for All

Geneva: Internet Society (2014), 144 pp.

Download (1)

ICT Economic Impact Assessment

Philibert de Mercey, Daniel Skillings, Camille Le Coz

Altai Consulting;USAID (2014), 90 pp.

"The ICT sector is one of few undeniable success stories in Afghanistan’s development over the past 12 years. In 2002, telecommunications services were virtually non-existent, restricted to a very small number of fixed-line connections and satellite communications were unaffordable to the general ... more

Download (0)

Ética multicultural y sociedad en red

Luis Germán Rodríguez L., Miguel Ángel Pérez Álvarez (eds.)

Madrid; Barcelona: Fundación Telefónica;Ariel (2014), xx, 130 pp.

"Si bien ponerse de acuerdo en los estándares que sustentan el desarrollo tecnológico de Internet ha sido un trabajo poco complicado, el alcanzar consensos sobre las implicaciones éticas que acarrean las múltiples decisiones que regulan el intercambio comunicacional es una tarea que está lejos ... more

Download (0)

Suchen, finden, weitergeben: Workshop zur Informationskompetenz im Netz. Handreichung für Dozentinnen und Dozenten

Marcel Machill, Markus Beiler, Johannes R. Gerstner

Düsseldorf: Landesanstalt für Medien NRW;Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission;Verband der Bibliotheken des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (2014), 70 pp.

"Dieser Workshop soll in Verbindung mit der Publikation „Der Info-Kompass“ dem interessierten Nutzer zeigen, wie er sich selbstbewusst im Internet bewegen kann, effektiv die Möglichkeiten ausschöpft und die allgegenwärtigen Gefahren souverän umschifft. Der Workshop ist modular aufgebaut und ... more

Download (0)

ICT Facts and Figures

Geneva: ITU (2014), 8 pp.

"The new figures show that, by the end of 2014, there will be almost 3 billion Internet users, two-thirds of them coming from the developing world, and that the number of mobile-broadband subscriptions will reach 2.3 billion globally. Fifty-five per cent of these subscriptions are expected to be in ... more

External Link (14)

Google Scholar (10)

WorldCat (10)

Theories of the Information Society

Frank Webster

London: Routledge, 4th ed. (2014), xii, 404 pp.

"Coping in an era of information flows, of virtual relationships and breakneck change poses challenges to one and all. In Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster makes sense of the information explosion, taking a sceptical look at what thinkers mean when they refer to the 'Information Soci ... more