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Civil Resistance in the Digital Age: The Rise of Civic Tech in Belarus

Tatsiana Ziniakova

[no publisher] (2021), 9 pp.

"Civil society technology, or civic tech, is one of the novel notions introduced by the digital age – a new form of social interaction and implementation of fundamental human rights. The dominating discourse that civic tech is about optimising and digitising public services is challenged by the ex ... more

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Archives, Access and Artificial Intelligence: Working with Born-Digital and Digitised Archival Collections

Lise Jaillant (ed.)

Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press;transcript (2021), 330 pp.

"Cultural heritage organizations face at least three main challenges. First, the volume of digital archives makes it extremely difficult for archivists to assess records. Applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to archives is still at an experimental stage, but AI/ ML could b ... more

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Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China

David Craig, Jian Lin, Stuart Cunningham

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), ix, 197 pp.

"In Chinese, the term wanghong refers to creators, social media entrepreneurs alternatively known as KOLs (key opinion leaders) and zhubo (showroom hosts), influencers and micro-celebrities. Wanghong also refers to an emerging media ecology in which these creators cultivate online communities for cu ... more

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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Arab States region

Geneva: ITU (2021), viii, 79 pp.

"This report provides an overview of the comparative innovation capacity of the Arab States region through ICT-centric innovation policy monitors, and an insight into how good practices can strengthen capacity to mainstream ICT innovation into national development agendas. It showcases a number of c ... more

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Myanmar: Dismantling Dissent. Crackdowns on Internet Freedoms

Bangkog: Asia Centre (2021), 27 pp.

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Developing Mobile Digital Skills in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Lani Jacobs

London: GSMA (2021), 16 pp.

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Assessing China’s Digital Silk Road: Huawei’s Engagement in Nigeria

Nils Hungerland, Kenddrick Chan

LSE Ideas, Digital IR Project (2021), 18 pp.

"The role of information technology in today’s society has made digital infrastructure a critical aspect of geopolitics. Although the private sector has traditionally led such developments, there is increasing evidence that countries are now slowly getting involved. This paper argues that as part ... more

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Democracy and Fake News

Serena Giusti, Elisa Piras (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), xiv, 232 pp.

"This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. The authors analyse and interpret how the use of technology and social media as well as the emergence of new political narratives has been progressively ... more

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Six Stories of Resilience: Digital Technologies as Drivers of Development in the COVID-19 Era

Asia Foundation (2021), 32 pp.

"This white paper discusses how digital technologies are building COVID resilience, shaping and accelerating the recovery, and diffusing within Asia Pacific region (APAC) in ways that are likely to persist in a post-COVID world. Section 1 presents the role of digital technologies in the Sustainable ... more

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Digital trends in the Americas region 2021: Information and communication technology trends and developments in the Americas region, 2017-2020

Geneva: ITU (2021), vi, 58 pp.

"This report provides an overview of trends and developments in ICT infrastructure, access and use in the Americas region, which includes 35 Member States and is home to a population of 1 billion people. The report highlights changes in ICT adoption since the last World Telecommunication Development ... more

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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Americas region

Geneva: ITU (2021), viii, 70 pp.

"This report provides an overview of the comparative innovation capacity of the Americas region through ICT-centric innovation policy monitors and insights on how good practice can strengthen capacity to integrate ICT innovation into national development agendas. Overall, the Americas region has sho ... more

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Desigualdades digitales: Aproximación sociojurídica al acceso a Internet en Colombia

Víctor Práxedes Saavedra Rionda, Daniel Ospina Celis, Juan Carlos Upegui, Diana C. León Torres

Bogotá: Dejusticia (2021), 106 pp.

"En este texto nos preguntamos, en concreto, por los efectos de la desigualdad económica en el acceso a las tecnologías digitales, en especial a Internet y, por ende, a los derechos que se ejercen a través suyo. También nos preguntamos por la caracterización jurídica del acceso a Internet, tan ... more

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Digital Inclusion of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia: Remote Virtual Mechanism for Usability of Telecentres Amongst Indigenous Peoples

Poline Bala, Chon Eng Tan

Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), volume 87, issue 4, e12171 (2021), 14 pp.

"Turning to an ICT-based community development known as the Telecentre Programme amongst Orang Asli, an indigenous people groups in Peninsular Malaysia, this paper describes why a remote virtual management devise was invented to encounter challenges related to rugged terrain constraints, which would ... more

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Policy Brief and Recommendations for an Enabling Environment for Community Networks in Brazil

Adriana Labardini Inzunza, Bruna Zanolli et al.

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2021), 152 pp.

"The policy brief we hereby present to the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) includes recommendations and specific proposals to enable community networks in Brazil, considering extensive research in both the global and Brazilian context, the state of the art of these small, not-f ... more

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China’s 'Digital Silk Road' Enters the Western Balkans

Stefan Vladisavljev

Association for International Affairs (AMO) (2021), 30 pp.

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Developing guidelines for cash transfers in Somalia

Jaki Mebur, Belinda Baah, Ken Okong'o

London: GSMA (2021), 28 pp.

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The Digital Continent: Responsible Communication in a Pandemicised World

Sherman Kuek (ed.)

Christian Institute for Theological Engagement (CHRISTE) (2021), 83 pp.

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Schluss mit lustig? TikTok als Plattform für politische Kommunikation

Marcus Bösch, Chris Köver

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 ... more

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Manual de redes comunitárias
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Bruna Zanolli

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2021), 90 pp.

"Este manual reúne informações a partir de experiências concretas de redes comunitárias no Brasil e América Latina para responder a perguntas como: o que são redes comunitárias? Que tipos existem? Como planejar, implementar, instalar e gerir uma rede comunitária? Dessa maneira, esta publica ... more

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The Digital Enquirer Kit

Tactical Tech (2021)

"The Digital Enquirer Kit is an e-learning course that guides learners through lessons on how to prevent the spread of misinformation, available on the free platform atingi.org. The course covers topics including media literacy, verification, and how to navigate the internet safely. The first four m ... more

Manual de redes comunitárias Key Guidance

Manual de redes comunitárias
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