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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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Free Basics in Real Life: Six Case Studies on Facebook’s Internet “on Ramp” Initiative from Africa, Asia and Latin America
Amsterdam: Global Voices (2017), 35 pp.
According to the executive summary "Facebook’s Free Basics program aims to help bridge the digital divide through a mobile-based platform that allows users to connect to a handful of online services free of charge [...] This paper highlights the following findings: Language: Free Basics does not m
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Internet Use Barriers and User Strategies: Perspectives from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Rwanda
Research ICT Africa;Mozilla Foundation (2017), 40 pp.
"The study tested the following hypotheses: the use of subsidised services only forms part of data use; people do not move beyond the use of subsidised services; using the internet first through subsidised services leaves people with less of an understanding of the Internet. Using subsidised data fo
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