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The State of ICT in In Kenya
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2019), v, 41 pp.
After Access 2018: A Demand-Side View of Mobile Internet from 10 African Countries
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2019), vii, 38 pp.
"Of all 10 African countries surveyed, only in South Africa is more than half the population online. The Internet penetration rate in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria and Senegal is above the 20% threshold – but even this requires further investigation in a developing country context, where the unaf
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Disconnected: A Human Rights-Based Approach to Network Disruptions
Global Network Initiative (2019), 33 pp.
"The statistical study determines that network interferences are more likely to happen at higher rates of expansion of Internet connectivity until a tipping point, suggesting that efforts to extend Internet access in low- and middle-income countries may lead to less overt restrictions. This threshol
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Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures 2019
Geneva: ITU (2019), ii, 11 pp.
"Welcome to the first of ITU’s Measuring Digital Development series of statistical and analytical publications that replace the annual Measuring the Information Society Report. Facts and figures 2019 offers a snapshot of the most important ICT indicators, including estimates for the current year.
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Mapping the Digital Divide in Africa: A Mediated Analysis
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 278 pp.
"This is a timely and much-needed collection that fills an important gap in the literature. It offers excellent conceptual tools and a selection of case studies that provide a useful map of the digital divide across the African continent and between Africa and the rest of the world. I especially app
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Internet Health Report 2019
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2019), 116 pp.
"This report is structured according to five overlapping themes that we consider a helpful framework for assessing internet health: privacy and security, openness, digital inclusion, web literacy, and decentralization, but it’s designed so you can read the articles in any order." (Introduction)
Smartphone Ownership is Growing Rapidly Around the World, But Not Always Equally: In Emerging Economies, Technology Use Still Much More Common Among Young People and the Well-Educated
Pew Research Center (2019), 46 pp.
"Mobile technology has spread rapidly around the globe. Today, it is estimated that more than 5 billion people have mobile devices, and over half of these connections are smartphones. But the growth in mobile technology to date has not been equal, either across nations or within them. People in adva
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Taking Stock: Data and Evidence on Gender Equality in Digital Access, Skills and Leadership
Deep Insights
United Nations University (UNU); Equals Global Partnership (2019), 338 pp.
"1. While gender gaps are observable in most aspects of ICT access, skills and leadership, the picture is complex. There are large regional variations: some countries are close to parity or have even reversed the gender gap on some indicators, while others still have persistent gaps. Individual coun
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The State of ICT in Mozambique 2018
Research ICT Africa (2019), iv, 15 pp.
Das neue digitale Landleben: Smart und innovativ statt abgehängt und analog
Frankfurt am Main: Wochenschau-Verlag (2019), 182 pp.
"Was hilft gegen die Landflucht? Digitale Strategien können ländliche Räume vitalisieren. Die Autorin begibt sich auf einen Landspaziergang durch zukünftige digitale Welten: Glasfaser, Offene Daten und Sensoren im Internet der Dinge tauchen ebenso auf wie smarte Mobilität, Roboter in der Gesund
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Connecting People. Transforming Nations
USAID (2019), 7 pp.
"Nearly 250 million people live in Indonesia. More than 80 percent of them have no access to the Internet. Access to broadband has the potential to transform individual lives, local communities, and entire nations. The last decade has seen exponential growth in Internet connectivity. Information and
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The State of ICT in In South Africa
Research ICT Africa (2018), 123 pp.
Kenyan Women’s Rural Realities, Mobile Internet Access, and “Africa Rising”
Information Technologies & International Development, volume 14, issue Special edition (2018), pp. 33-47
"The term “Africa Rising” is used in popular and academic discourse to describe economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. Increased mobile phone ownership and access to the Internet figure prominently in this optimistic narrative. However, aspects of this story are being questioned, in particular w
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The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2018
Washington, DC; Geneva: World Bank; ITU (2018), vi, 240 pp.
"In 2016, there were more than 7.3 billion mobile-cellular subscriptions worldwide. Globally, 3.5 billion people were using the Internet, of which 2.5 billion were from developing countries. Mobile-broadband subscriptions have risen constantly to reach 3.6 billion, while the number of fixed-broadban
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"Free Internet" and the Costs to Media Pluralism: The Hazards of Zero-Rating the News
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2018), 20 pp.
"In many countries, mobile operators have teamed up with social media platforms to offer free access to specific websites or internet services—including news websites. The most well-known of these offerings, Facebook’s Free Basics, has been explicitly pitched as a way to give citizens in develop
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Better Connectivity, Better Programs: How to Implement a Broadband Demand Aggregation Program
USAID (2018), 43 pp.
"In 2012, some of the most expensive internet access service in the world was the only way humanitarian organizations could serve the world’s largest refugee community, Dadaab in Kenya. Even though it was founded twenty years earlier, internet access in Dadaab was still inadequate -- slow, ineffic
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