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A survey of media consumption in Afghanistan
London: BBC Media Action (2023), 34 pp.
"This report summarizes research that aimed to better understand Afghans' access to and preference for different media content and platforms, their trust in media, how people use and share mis- and disinformation and ways to counter these." (Publisher description)
Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Guatemala
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2023), 112 pp.
"The Guatemala DECA report presents the findings and recommendations of the Guatemala DECA. It outlines the key aspects of Guatemala’s digital ecosystem and provides nine recommendations for creating a more inclusive, safe, and enabling environment. Guided by USAID/Guatemala priorities: i) partner
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National E-waste Monitor Botswana
Geneva: ITU (2023), viii, 29 pp.
"This report examines the overall statistics of electronic and electrical equipment (EEE) placed on the market (POM) and e-waste generation in Botswana. The main findings indicate that 21 097 tonnes of EEE were placed on the market in Botswana in 2020 generated by demand from households and business
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"In 2023, Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA) through its consortium partner, Internews, undertook the most comprehensive review yet of laws affecting media practice and the freedom of expression, including cyber laws, penal codes, constitutions and acts of parliament, in the sixteen Souther
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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Tanzania
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2023), 123 pp.
"The Tanzania DECA report presents the findings and recommendations of the Tanzania DECA. It outlines the key aspects of Tanzania’s digital ecosystem and provides 13 recommendations for creating a more inclusive, safe, and enabling environment. Guided by USAID/Tanzania priorities: i) foundational
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 158 pp.
"Across markets, only around a fifth of respondents (22%) now say they prefer to start their news journeys with a website or app – that’s down 10 percentage points since 2018. Publishers in a few smaller Northern European markets have managed to buck this trend, but younger groups everywhere are
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The Trouble with Press Freedom in Kenya
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2023), 15 pp.
"This policy paper highlights significant threats to press freedom in Kenya despite legal protections and media development progress. These challenges encompass various aspects, including legal, political, economic, and internal issues within the media industry. Both civil society and the internatio
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African Media Barometer: An Analysis of Trends in AMBs for 28 Countries Over 11 Years
Deep Insights
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 53 pp.
"All the AMBs consistently demonstrate that African countries provide for at least freedom of expression, although a number also specify freedom of the press in their national constitutions. Most have ratified international instruments which provide for and seek to enhance fundamental freedoms. Howe
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¿Hay concentración en internet en América Latina? El caso Uruguay
Montevideo: Observacom; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 16 pp.
"El análisis de la información disponible sobre ocho indicadores de concentración en Internet en Uruguay muestra que en casi todas ellas unas pocas empresas tienen una posición dominante en el mercado o servicio relevado." (Conclusiones, página 16)
"This situation report herein analyses media and information literacy (MIL), disinformation, and trust in news across the Caribbean. It contains country reports from eight researchers, covering eight Caribbean nations: the Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Su
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Long-Term Investments Pay Dividends in Ukraine
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 27 pp.
"International assistance actors have played an important role in supporting media reforms in Ukraine. Their long-term, continuous efforts planted the seeds for groundbreaking media environment changes during Ukraine’s democratic transition. International donors’ sustained engagement in Ukraine
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"For democratic ideals and values to be nurtured and promoted in the world’s youngest country, both new and old media must be strengthened. This brief outlines the complex terrain in which the media in South Sudan operates. It summarily highlights the roles that the media plays and the challenges
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The Unfreedom Monitor: India Country Report
Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 28 pp.
"India’s “techade” does show signs of digital authoritarianism that can potentially have farreaching implications for politics, civil liberties and society. At the same time, these are not new challenges for the country. In the past, the Indian government has attempted to surveil, monitor, and
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The State of Press Freedom in Southern Africa 2020-2021
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2022), 75 pp.
"Privacy is necessary for journalists to communicate freely with sources, receive confidential information, investigate corruption, and guarantee their safety and that of their sources. Therefore, it is worrying that governments and big corporations are working to undermine the right to privacy by a
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New money. Bitcoin and cryptoassets in Central America: The case of El Salvador
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Stiftung (2022), 16 pp.
"El Salvador’s experiment, though mired with fiscal and political issues from before, has shown that the adoption of public blockchain assets like Bitcoin are not taken in good regard by legacy financial multilateral institutions and are seen with great skepticism and concern. Although the adoptio
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Media and Communication in Nigeria: Conceptual Connections, Crossroads and Constraints
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xv, 272 pp.
"The book traces communication in Nigeria back to pre-colonial indigenous communication, through the development of telecommunication, broadcasting networks, the press, the Nigerian flm industry (‘Nollywood’) and on to the digital era. At a time when Western voices still dominate the academic li
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El podcasting en el Perú: Análisis de un medio nativo digital
Lima: Universidad de Lima, Fondo Editorial (2022), 191 pp.
"En este libro Carlos Rivadeneyra Olcese analiza el desarrollo y el estado actual de ese ecosistema comunicacional al que llama la podcastfera peruana. Para ello aborda las similitudes, diferencias y tensiones entre el podcasting como medio nativo digital y su pariente análogo más cercano: la radi
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Supply Chain Analysis: Jordan
Washington, DC: Global Book Alliance; Education Development Center (EDC); USAID (2022), viii, 85 pp.
"Jordan has an active and vibrant children’s book publishing sector, enhanced by the many international organizations that are working in education and health to create children’s reading materials. Reports indicate that certain types of books are widely available in Jordanian schools: 99.3% of
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Privacy Imperilled: Analysis of Surveillance, Encryption and Data Localisation Laws in Africa
CIPESA (2022), 67 pp.
"In the past few years, many countries across the continent have enacted various laws that permit surveillance, mandate telecommunication intermediaries to facilitate the interception of communication, stipulate the mandatory collection of biometric data, limit the use of encryption, require the loc
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The Unfreedom Monitor: Zimbabwe Country Report
Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2022), 28 pp.
"The government of Zimbabwe and the ruling ZANU PF party are bent on ensuring that the status quo is preserved at all costs. As evidenced by findings in the Civic Media Observatory, the digital sphere has been identified as a threat to the country’s national security, insofar as deposing the curre
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