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Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research

Matthew L. Smith, Ruhiya Kristine Seward (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), xiv, 498 pp.

"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to entreprene ... more

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Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software

Benjamin J. Birkinbine

London: University of Westminster Press (2020), 142 pp.

"The concept of ‘the commons’ has been used as a framework to understand resources shared by a community rather than a private entity, and it has also inspired social movements working against the enclosure of public goods and resources. One such resource is free (libre) and open source software ... more

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El software libre en la radio: Migrar la tecnología

Santiago García Gago, Javier Obregón, Clara Robayo, Nathalie Spitia, Jonatan Almaraz Funes, Loreto Bravo

Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER); Red Radios Comunitarias y Software Libre (2020), 39 pp.

"Este manual no pretende en ningún caso ser conclusivo, ni ofrecer recetas para migrar a software libre, quiere ser un espacio que reúne experiencias como coordenadas comunes de la brújula que marca la política tecnológica y de contenido de ALER. Por ello, dejamos abierta la posibilidad de segu ... more

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Open Source Documentation Guide

#ASKnet; rOg agency for open culture & critical transformation (2020), 2 pp.

"This Open Source Documentation Guide aims to help you understand what you can do to prepare real open source documentation, how you come up with open source solutions, finalised products and overcome challenges in process and methods." (Page 2)

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Blockchain: A World Without Middlemen? Promise and Practice of Distributed Governance

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 91 pp.

"Before reaching a conclusive answer on the potential of blockchain for development purposes, we believe it is worthwhile to implement a number of proofs-of-concept and pilot projects for the most promising use cases. These will not only help us determine the practical benefits of distributed ledger ... more

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Foto Mídia Ninja: Creative commons e autoria coletiva

Nathália Schneider

Brazilian Journal of Development, volume 5, issue 12 (2019), pp. 29588-29602

"Este artigo propõe uma discussão sobre a autoria coletiva de fotografias do grupo brasileiro Mídia Ninja. Para isso, parte de um diálogo entre alguns movimentos de protesto organizados, especialmente, nos ambientes digitais, passando pela cultura hacker, cultura do compartilhamento e o midialiv ... more

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NLnet Foundation (2019)

"The NLnet Foundation supports organizations and people that contribute to an open information society. It was influential in spreading the Internet throughout Europe in the 1980s. In 1997, the foundation sold off its commercial networking operations to UUNET (now part of Verizon), resulting in an e ... more

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Radio Rises to the Cloud

Radio World: International Edition, issue July (2018), 22 pp.

"This latest Radio World International eBook features examples of ways radio broadcasters are implementing cloud solutions productively into their day-to-day operations. It explores specific issues one should consider when contemplating cloud usage. These include understanding when it’s advantageo ... more

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More Than Just Bitcoin: The Potential of Blockchain Technology, Using the Example of Latin America

Christian Hübner

KAS International Reports, issue 1 (2018), pp. 64-77

"Blockchain tehcnology (BT) can make a significant contribution to the future development of Latin America. It provides a robust alternative to weak state authorities in the fight for democratically legitimised laws and standards that have only been applied to a limited extent, or not at all. BT cou ... more

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Socio-Informatics: A Practice-Based Perspective on the Design and Use of IT Artifacts

Volker Wulf, Volkmar Pipek, David A. Randall, Markus Rohde, Kjeld Schmidt, Gunnar Stevens (eds.)

Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018), xviii, 559 pp.

"The last 25 years have seen a small revolution in our approach to the understanding of new technology and information systems. It has become a founding assumption of computer-supported cooperative work and human–computer interaction that in the future, if not already, most computer applications w ... more

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Hack the Future of Development Aid

Mariannne Haahr et al.

Copenhagen: DANIDA (2017), 35 pp.

"This study opens by diving into what blockchain is and why it is a new tech tool for development. Thereafter, we explore four ways in which blockchain can be applied to hack the future of development aid and accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals. Hack #1: Innovate (aid) money with cryptocurr ... more

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Free Voices from the Digital Fields: A Social Research on Free Software in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lena Zúñiga

International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), 122 pp.

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Open Hardware Guide

rOg agency for open culture & critical transformation (2016), 2 pp.

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Freie Lizenzen – einfach erklärt: Ein Leitfaden für die Anwendung freier Lizenzen in der Bertelsmann Stiftung

Sonja Borski, Monika Fischer, Jöran Muuß-Merholz et al.

Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung (2016), 30 pp.

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Smartphones

Paul A. Soukup

Communication Research Trends, volume 34, issue 4 (2015), pp. 3-39

"Many of the research approaches to smartphones actually regard them as more or less transparent points of access to other kinds of communication experiences. That is, rather than considering the smartphone as something in itself, the researchers look at how individuals use the smartphone for their ... communicative purposes, whether these be talking, surfing the web, using on-line data access for off-site data sources, downloading or uploading materials, or any kind of interaction with social media. They focus not so much on the smartphone itself but on the activities that people engage in with their smartphones. Though most communication research examines on individual and group usage of smartphones, a few people outside of the more technical journals and books have sketched—at least in overview form—the key factors for smartphone success, what Goggin and Hjorth (2014b) identify as infrastructure, economics, and policy. Apart from the manufacture of the handsets, smartphones require an infrastructure of telecommunications operators, with systems across the world divided between national telecommunication services and competing privately owned companies (Curwen & Whalley, 2014; Feijóo, 2014). Secondly, smartphones depend upon both formal and informal economies, from the manufacture and sale of the phones themselves to the production and sale of the apps to the revenues supporting particular app services (music sales, data storage, on-demand services, and so on) (Lobato & Thomas, 2014). Goldsmith (2014) adds a bit of detail, describing an app ecosystem: “Each ecosystem consists of a core company, which creates and maintains a platform and an app marketplace, plus small and large companies that produce apps and/or mobile devices for that platform” (p. 171). Finally, both manufacturers and operators must negotiate agreed-on technical specifications for voice and data transmission, specifications that governments must approve both locally and perhaps in cross-border treaty agreements (Middleton, 2014). These factors lead to a more complex view of smartphones: not only do they function as communication devices and embodiments of technical negotiations, but they also take on identities as symbols of economic and cultural systems, as “moral objects” (whose value justifies their purchase price), as fashion accessories, and as lifestyle supports (Koskinen, 2012, p. 225)." (Introduction, pages 3-4) more

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Architecture de l'information: Méthodes, outils, enjeux

Jean-Michel Salaün, Benoît Habert (dir.)

Louvain-la-Neuve: De Boeck (2015), 205 pp.

"On compte aujourd'hui plus d'un milliard de sites web et applications mobiles. Dans un environnement aussi compétitif, la fidélité de l'internaute à une interface ou à une ressource dépend en grande partie de l'expérience de sa visite. C'est pourquoi le rôle de l'architecte de l'information ... more

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Manual culturas y saberes libres: Sistematización de la experiencia de migración a tecnologías libres

Joaquín Tapia Arenas

San José (CR): Brot für die Welt; Voces Nuestras (2015), 29 pp.

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Buen conocer: Modelos sostenibles y políticas públicas para una economía social del conocimiento común y abierto en el Ecuador

David David Vila-Viñas, Xavier E. Barandiaran (eds.)

Flok Society (2015), xviii, 759 pp.

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Indicadores de acceso abierto y comunicaciones académicas en América Latina

Juan Pablo Alperin, Dominique Babini, Gustavo Fischman

Buenos Aires: CLACSO (2014), 169 pp.

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Web Radio: A Manual for Streaming Audio on the Web
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Zahir Koradia

New Delhi: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) (2013), x, 60 pp.

"This is a basic manual for audio streaming and establishing a web radio station. Web radio is an increasingly popular, low-cost option for community radio. The manual outlines how web radio works, explaining the components involved and the roles they play, and giving details about the requirements ... more

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Web Radio: A Manual for Streaming Audio on the Web
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