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Mapping Digital Media: Estonia

Urmas Loit, Andra Siibak

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 84 pp.

"Estonians have demonstrated a keen appetite for digital media uptake. More than three-quarters of the population accesses the internet regularly, and more than half of those are active on social networking platforms. Recent surveys suggest that nearly a quarter of internet users now connect via sma ... more

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Information Economy Report 2013: The Cloud Economy and Developing Countries

Torbjörn Fredriksson et al.

New York: United Nations (2013), xvi, 118 pp.

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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman, Francis Nyamnjoh (eds.)

Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa;African Studies Centre (2013), 202 pp.

"This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa’s ... more

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Understanding African Children's Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs): A Youth-Led Survey to Prevent Sexual Exploitation Online

Bangkok: ECPAT International (2013), 76 pp.

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China and the African Internet: Perspectives from Kenya and Ethiopia

Iginio Gagliardone

Index Communicación, volume 3, issue 2 (2013), pp. 67-82

"Through the lens of China in Africa, this paper explores the transformations in the relationship between the Internet and the state. China’s economic success, impressive growth of Internet users and relative stability have quietly promoted an example of how the Internet can be deployed within the ... more

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The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life

Assa Doron, Robin Jeffrey

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (2013), xxxii, 293 pp.

"Over just a decade in India, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare, unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized staple that even poor fisherman can afford. Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey investigate the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history and ... more

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Freedom of Expression and the Internet

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression (2013), v, 81 pp.

"In this document the Office of the Special Rapporteur endeavors to make available to all States in the region, general principles for the protection of the right to freedom of thought and expression online. These principles are intended to provide guidance to governments, legislative and regulatory ... more

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Assessing the Role of Information and Communication Technologies to Enhance Food Systems in Developing Countries: A Focus on Eastern and Southern Africa

Charles Steinfield, Susan Wyche

Michigan State University, Global Center for Food Systems Innovation (GCFSI);U.S. Global Development Lab (2013), 39 pp.

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Connecting Africa: An Assessment of Progress Towards the Connect Africa Summit Goals

Tunis: African Development Bank (2013), 87 pp.

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Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Melanie Stilz

In: Einführung in die Entwicklungspolitik

Hartmut Ihne; Jürgen Wilhelm (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2013), pp. 338-348

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Training Digital Security Trainers: A Preliminary Review of Methods, Needs, and Challenges

Alix Dunn, Christopher Wilson

Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2013), 18 pp.

"This paper draws on interviews with digital security trainers and coordinators of digital security trainings of trainers (ToT)s whose end-goal is the support of human rights defenders, civil society, activists, and local media worldwide [...] Among its main findings, this paper notes the following ... more

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Online@AsiaPacific: Mobile, social and locative media in the Asia-Pacific

Larissa Hjorth, Michael Arnold

London: Routledge (2013), xii, 206 pp.

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Favela Digital: O Outro Lado da Tecnologia

David Nemer

Vitoria: GSA Grafica e Editora (2013), 128 pp.

"The idea for this book came up during the fieldwork I did in Vitória, Brazil for my doctoral dissertation. My research aims to understand the experience of marginalized people in community technology centers and how this experience informs the ways we think about what constitutes “empowerment” ... more

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Telecentres for Sustainable Rural Development: Review and Case Study of a South African Rural Telecentre

Marthinius C. Breitenbach

Development Southern Africa, volume 30, issue 2 (2013), pp. 262-278

"This paper evaluates a South African rural telecentre that may serve as a ‘best practice’ model. The paper first provides a brief literature review of telecentres and the role of information and communication technology in economic development. A qualitative evaluation of a case study is presen ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World

Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.

"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r ... more

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Wireless Networking in the Developing World

Jane Butler (ed.)

[authors], 3rd ed. (2013), 495 pp.

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From connectivity to service delivery: Case studies in e-governance

Raul Zambrano, Kristine Ruhiya Seward (eds.)

New York: UNDP (2013), 63 pp.

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Mapping Digital Media: Kazakhstan

Frederick Emrich, Yevgeniya Plakhina

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 114 pp.

"The story of Kazakhstani media is of two contrasting dynamics: the increasingly controlled and innovation-shy offline space, and the vibrant, less-restricted digital environment. The rise of digital media has yielded benefits for citizens and democracy, albeit these are limited by the dominance of ... more

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The New Gatekeepers: Controlling Information in the Internet Age

Bill Ristow

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 54 pp.

"Internet companies have become the new gatekeepers of information–and their data-parsing algorithms the twenty-first century equivalent of the stereotypical editor with the green eyeshade who filtered the news before passing it along to readers .. As they have expanded globally, these pioneering ... more

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Regulating Social Media: Legal and Ethical Considerations

Susan J. Drucker, Gary Gumpert (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2013), ix, 243 pp.