"The new priorities include: 1. Expanding the access in developing countries to digital platforms. 2. Devising and promoting uses for new platforms (especially mobile) for functions that occupy a new, poorly defined space between traditional journalism and other modes of information. 3. Contesting online censorship and filtering from governments (most, but not all, of which are authoritarian regimes). 4. Safeguarding Internet security for citizens of other countries, especially for activists and human rights advocates. 5. Stemming a growing tide of threats to global Internet security–affecting U.S. as well as international entities–from a broad array of international forces, both private and state-sponsored. These urgent concerns have shifted the areas of operations for the State Department, USAID, and the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), and have created new rivalries among them. They have also ushered a new cohort of NGOs into the media development arena, and appointed a new cast of characters to design and implement projects that would have been technologically impossible only a few years ago." (Abstract)