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Social Media in the Middle East: 2019 in Review. Key Developments, Stories and Research Findings from the Past 12 Months

Damian Radcliffe, Hadil Abuhmaid

University of Oregon, School of Journalism and Communication (2020), 55 pp.

"This report is the eighth in an annual series of publications, dating back to 2012, designed to share the latest stories, trends and research in social media usage from across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Using a wide variety of academic, industry and media sources, this White Paper ide ... more

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Digital Strategy 2020-2024

Washington, DC: USAID (2020), 58 pp.

"The digital strategy centers around two core, mutually reinforcing objectives: improve measurable development and humanitarian assistance outcomes through the responsible use of digital technology in USAID’s programming; and strengthen the openness, inclusiveness, and security of country-level di ... more

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Limited Internet Access in Zimbabwe a Major Hurdle for Remote Learning During Pandemic

Simangele Moyo-Nyede, Stephen Ndoma

Afrobarometer (2020), 13 pp.

"The government of Zimbabwe is encouraging the use of digital platforms to provide remote learning services during the COVID-19 pandemic, but data showing that most households lack Internet access and reliable electricity suggest that many students will find it difficult or impossible to participate ... more

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Meaningful Connectivity: A New Standard to Raise the Bar for Internet Access

Dhanaraj Thakur, Teddy Woodhouse et al.

Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) (2020), 18 pp.

"The meaningful connectivity standard is a tool to raise the bar for internet access and set more ambitious policy goals for digital development. It sets minimum thresholds across the four dimensions of internet access that matter most to users. These are: regular internet use - minimum threshold: d ... more

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Information and Computer Ethics

Jocelyn O. Padallan

Oakville: Arcler Press (2020), xviii, 234 pp.

"Information and Computer Ethics deals with the basic idea of information ethics. It also includes the concept of moral methodology and information technology. It provides the reader with basic insights of global development of information technology and computer ethics so as to understand the ethic ... more

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Theologische Medienethik im digitalen Zeitalter

Gotlind Ulshöfer, Monika Wilhelm (eds.)

Stuttgart: Kohlhammer (2020), 396 pp.

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Verstehen, was ist: Auf dem Weg in die nachrichtenkompetente Gesellschaft

Anna-Katharina Meßmer, Alexander Sängerlaub

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (2020), 80 pp.

"In den digitalen Debattenräumen führt die Möglichkeit, dass heute jede:r selbst senden und publizieren kann, zu zahlreichen Herausforderungen. Dies zeigt sich vor allem in der Überfülle zahlreicher gleichzeitiger, teilweise widersprüchlicher privater und öffentlicher, journalistischer, wisse ... more

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Who Moderates the Social Media Giants? A Call to End Outsourcing

Paul M. Barrett

New York: New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights (2020), 28 pp.

"Content moderation—the process of deciding what stays online and what gets taken down— is an indispensable aspect of the social media industry. Without it, online platforms would be inundated not just by spam, but by personal bullying, neo-Nazi screeds, terrorist beheadings, and child sexual ab ... more

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Tenemos que hablar del porno: Guía para familias sobre el consumo de pornografía en la adolescencia

Paloma García Berrocal (coord.)

Save the Children (2020), 22 pp.

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Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa: How a Continent is Escaping Silicon Valley's Long Shadow

Nicolas Friederici, Michel Wahome, Mark Graham

Cambridge: MIT Press (2020), 323 pp.

"In recent years, Africa has seen a digital entrepreneurship boom, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into tech cities, entrepreneurship trainings, coworking spaces, innovation prizes, and investment funds. Politicians and technologists have offered Silicon Valley–influenced narratives of ... more

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Discurso de odio en América Latina: Tendencias de regulación, rol de los intermediarios y riesgos para la libertad de expresión

Marianne Díaz Hernández

Santiago de Chile: Derechos Digitales (2020), 24 pp.

"En gran parte de América Latina existen normas que buscan regular los actos de discurso, ya sea a través de normativas contra el discurso de odio, o mediante la penalización de los “delitos de honor” (cuyo traslado al ámbito civil y la correspondiente despenalización, dicho sea de paso, es ... more

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Digital Media Practices in Households: Kinship Through Data

Larissa Hjorth, Kana Ohashi, Jolynna Sinanan, Heather Horst, Sarah Pink, Fumitoshi Kato, Baohua Zhou

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 205 pp.

"In this book, we have investigated the evolving intergenerational media practices over three years to reflect on the quotidian (and often invisible) forms of care at a distance enacted as part of contemporary Digital Kinship. As we have explored, within different cultural contexts we are seeing div ... more

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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 ... more

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Twitter Scorecard: Tracking Twitter's Progress in Addressing Violence and Abuse Against Women Online

London: Amnesty International (2020), 22 pp.

"Twitter is still not doing enough to protect women from online violence and abuse. Since the release of Toxic Twitter in 2018, Amnesty International has continued to highlight the scale of abuse women face on Twitter, including in Argentina, India, the UK and the US. Meanwhile, women have continued ... more

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Building Smart Villages: A Blueprint. As Piloted in Niger

Geneva: ITU (2020), xiv, 57 pp.

"This Smart Village Blueprint, piloted in Niger, has been conceived as a practical tool for establishing smart villages. It contributes to the implementation of the Niger 2.0 Smart Villages project, which aims at providing broadband infrastructure to improve Internet access in rural and remote parts ... more

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An Update for the Internet: Reforming Global Digital Cooperation in 2021

Matthias C. Kettemann, Alexandra Paulus

Bonn: Development and Peace Foundation (SEF) (2020), 4 pp.

"In 2021, the international community has the chance to radically reform global digital governance. The aim should be to guarantee a global, open, free, stable and secure Internet while promoting responsible State behaviour in cyberspace. Mapping the two strands of this policy – improving models f ... more

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Tips for Young People: Staying Safe Online During the COVID-19 Pandemic

UNICEF (2020), 6 pp.

"Here are some practical steps you can follow to keep yourself safer during this period and improve the time that you and your family have both online and offline: 1. It is important to check your privacy settings on ALL of your social media accounts and know how to set your accounts to private or t ... more

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Prosumidores y comunicación en la era digital

Gustavo Hernández Díaz, Johanna Pérez Daza (eds.)

Caracas: Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) (2020), 107 pp.

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Managing Machine Learning Projects in International Development: A Practical Guide

USAID;Vital Wave;DAI (2020), 70 pp.

"This guide has explored some of the key considerations that should inform the conceptualization and implementation of Machine Learning (ML) and artifical intelligence (AI) components within a development project. New, automated decision systems can offer considerable and rapid efficiency gains, but ... more

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External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology-Based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa: Mobile Phones, Nutrition, and Health in Tanzania. Business Modelling Endline Report

Nigel Scott, Simon Batchelor, Jones. Tom

E-pact Consortium;Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 118 pp.

"mNutrition is a global initiative supported by FCDO, managed by GSMA, and implemented by in-country MNOs and third party providers to use mobile technology, that sought to improve the health and nutritional status of children and adults in the developing world. The potential to utilise mobile techn ... more