"This guidebook draws on, and complements, the ITU Digital Skills Toolkit published in 2018. Whereas the toolkit was designed to help policy-makers develop national digital skills strategies and roadmaps, this guidebook focuses on helping them identify national skills gaps and requirements, which ca
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n then be addressed through targeted digital skills development policies and strategies. In other words, the results of a digital skills assessment exercise can serve as a concrete and necessary input into the national policy-making process." (Foreword, page iv)
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"This guide aims to equip media organisations and professionals with the necessary tools and insights to increase gender balance in their content. It should help you to: understand the importance of gender balance in content; identify the different ways in which the media gender stereotypes; underst
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and how to avoid gender stereotyping; develop organisational strategies to improve gender balance in content; identify suitable metrics and tools to track their progress; learn from successful initiatives that have been implemented by other news organisations." (Page 3)
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"This media viability handbook is unique in that it has been written by media startups themselves and presents the learnings of 21 digital pioneers including the Philippines' Rappler, Egypt's Mada Masr and Animal Politico in Mexico. The pages are filled with tips and information these media startups
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from 18 different countries wished they had when they first started out. It includes lessons learned, advice for successful growth and perhaps most importantly, how to sustain a startup's success. The handbook presents a three-step approach: the start phase, growth phase and the media viability phase. It highlights an approach that focuses not only on revenue streams — an area that many startups put too much emphasis on — but aspects of the business such as human resources and audience engagement, which are crucial for achieving media viability. Each chapter of the handbook explores one of the three steps in depth. In the first chapter, we hear from six startups in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). They share their experiences of turning an idea into a reality and share the knowledge they learned during the start phase focusing on revenue streams, audience engagement, collaboration and donors' motives. In chapter two, seven startups from the Asia region dive into structure and growth. There is a particular focus on diversifying revenue streams, staffing and internal organization, identifying a core mission and capitalizing on your strengths. Chapter three features eight startups from Latin American countries who impart their knowledge on sustaining the success they have achieved. It rounds up the important lessons that digital media entrepreneurs should carry with them at all times. Community building, producing a quality product and involving the whole team in decision making processes are key." (Publisher description)
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"Este manual, que contiene recomendaciones para impulsar la igualdad de género en el tratamiento de las noticias, ha sido creado por la Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Periodistas (ANMPE), tomando como punto de partida la revisión de varios otros manuales existentes en el extranjero que abordan es
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te tema. Con este manual de género, la ANMPE busca crear conciencia entre quienes dirigen y trabajan en los medios de comunicación para contribuir a fomentar una cultura de mayor igualdad al interior de los medios y a partir de ahí, hacia la opinión pública. En la actualidad, quienes están a cargo de los medios saben del problema, pero no siempre actúan en consecuencia." (Introducción)
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"This guide is designed to support civil society organisations, Oxfam teams and partners to develop and deliver ‘influencing strategies’ for social justice that tackle the structural causes of poverty, inequality and environmental crisis - influencing strategies that will shift unequal and unjus
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t power relations, and change policies, practices, attitudes, behaviours and social norms. It describes how to design effective influencing strategies and put them into practice and explains the tactics that you can use to make change happen. The guide is informed by the learning, experiences and courageous influencing and campaigning undertaken by social movements, civil society networks, Oxfam partners, allies and staff over many years, as well as from evaluations and academic research. [...] The guide is split into three parts: Influencing: this part explains some of the context and principles that underpin Oxfam’s approach to influencing; Strategy: this part explains how to develop an influencing strategy to maximize impact. It takes you through the main steps, provides analysis and planning tools and examples of the strategies and tactics you can use; Tactics and tools: this part provides more in-depth guidance and information on the strategies, tactics and skills you can develop to be effective in your influencing and campaigning. Throughout this guide we refer to strategy; strategies, tactics, actions, activities and tools." (Introduction, page 3)
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"La primera parte, justo después de esta introducción, aborda las necesidades más habituales de los medios de comunicación a la hora de hacer los análisis de redes. Muchas veces resulta difícil saber por dónde empezar a analizar la actividad en las redes sociales. La primera parte del manual
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te ayudará a encontrar rápidamente las respuestas que necesitas sin tener que buscar por todo el documento. En la segunda parte, nos fijaremos en algunos de los aspectos básicos del análisis de redes. Veremos lo que significan las diferentes métricas de las redes sociales y cuáles son las más importantes. La tercera parte explica brevemente los recursos que necesitamos para analizar eficazmente nuestra comunicación por internet. La cuarta parte es la más importante de este manual. En esta sección, nos centramos en Facebook, Twitter, YouTube y WhatsApp, y te explicamos cómo utilizar herramientas de análisis gratuitas para obtener mayor información sobre tu comunicación y tu audiencia. En esta guía no abordamos Instagram porque cuando la elaboramos había muy pocos socios de la DW Akademie en África activos en la plataforma. La quinta parte es una introducción a cómo elaborar informes y cuál es la mejor manera de presentar los análisis a jefes o publicistas. La sexta parte sirve de orientación para facilitadores que quieran utilizar este manual en talleres o cursos. Y, por último, la séptima parte contiene un glosario exhaustivo que explica los términos técnicos más importantes en el campo del análisis de redes sociales." (Introducción, página 4)
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"As part of IPA’s response to COVID-19, many existing and new data collections have shifted to remote data collection modes including computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI), interactive voice response (IVR) and SMS surveys. This transition has required new protocols, new tools, and new work
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flows to ensure that data can be collected at similarly high-quality across remote survey modes. This is compounded by the logistics and health challenges associated with a global pandemic. This document contains tips and best practices for shifting face-to-face surveys to remote survey modes, as a response to pandemic conditions where person-to-person contact risks virus transmission. IPA’s Global Research and Data Support (GRDS) team has created technical tools and protocols that fall into four categories of tasks for remote surveying. We summarize the major changes and available tools for CATI, the predominant choice for remote data collection mode." (Executive summary, page 1)
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"This guide aims to provide some support in planning and delivering effective communications on the local level. It is for us all – the small community organisations as well as the larger NGOs, faith-based leaders and groups as well as media actors, officials and a wide range of other people who i
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n varied walks of life are ‘communicators’ [...] To support our communication there are a range of initiatives and organisations producing resources, and in this guide, we aim to highlight some of the best of these, and also to share other trusted sources where more resources and information can be found." (Introduction)
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"The contradiction between the encouraging regulations and increasing awareness on one side and the disappointing reality on the other side leads us in this article to the question, how we can develop a more realistic and effective way to reduce corruption than by this double moral standard of nice
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anticorruption declarations and continuation of corrupt practices.
For faith-based persons and institutions, double morality is not a solution because it undermines the integrity and credibility of a person or institution and is a lack of honesty towards God and society. The authors of this paper are intensively engaged in trainings of Christian entrepreneurs in China. They are seriously searching for solutions to implement their Christian values in their companies, business, family and responsibility in society. Within the Christian Executive MBA (CEMBA) classes, offered by the Kingdom Business College in Beijing and Shenyang in China, the authors started a process to find practical and honest solutions for ethical dilemmas around corruption.
From a Christian perspective, all human beings are sinners because they cannot implement God’s will at every moment. The gap between good intention and real action is the fundamental characteristic of human beings. Otherwise, we human beings would be God where will and action are inseparably united. But Christian faith also teaches us that human beings cannot and must not be perfect. That’s the reason why, especially in Protestant faith, salvation cannot be reached by good action but only by the grace of God. Therefore, liberated from the constant fear of failing vis-à-vis God and being condemned, believers are liberated to try the best to improve ethical behaviour. Human beings remain sinners, but can become “better sinners”. This is the approach we try to develop in this booklet. Corruption cannot be justified. Some people can immediately live without corruption. The others we encourage for an honest, realistic, step-by-step approach to reduce and finally overcome corruption." (Introduction, pages 5-6)
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"These guidelines are published under the Going Digital series where we explore and share our learning in using new digital technologies in evaluation and research. In this fifth instalment of Going Digital, another form of digital data is explored: web data. The paper discusses how web data, in par
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ticular social media data, can be collected and provides hands-on guidelines for harvesting Twitter data." (Page 1)
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Since ITU first published this Manual in 2009, the digital technology sector has evolved almost beyond recognition. The Internet is now accessed through a multitude of devices, including mobile phones, tablets and similar handheld computers. The impressive spread of mobile broadband networks has bro
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ught online access to people in areas where fixed infrastructure is limited – for example, outside major urban areas, especially in developing countries. And the world over, more and more young people are growing up using digital technologies.
The second edition of the Manual, published in 2014, extended the list of ICT indicators and added a full on coordination of the national statistical system in the area of ICT statistics. However, the continued rapid growth and evolution of the global information society demands continuous review of our current ICT indicators and their definitions. A key component of ITU’s statistical work therefore involves the development and revision of the international standards used to monitor the progress of countries’ transformation into information societies.
In this third edition, we continue the trend of expanding the list of ICT indicators, while taking stock of the experiences of developed and developing countries alike in the implementation of ICT surveys. In addition, we have also introduced new measurement topics, reflecting the evolving nature of digital access and use.
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"Die fünfte Auflage des Handbuchs liefert Tipps und praktische Anleitungen zum Texten für Internet und Intranet, zu Bewegtbild und Podcast, Sozialen Netzwerken und Communitys, Formen und Formaten des Mediums sowie zu den Abläufen im Content-Management. Wie wird man Online-Journalist? Wo arbeiten
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Online-Journalisten? Was müssen sie beherrschen: an journalistischem Handwerk, an Internet-Kenntnissen, an Online-Recht? Wie textet man Teaser? Wie bindet man Useraktivitäten ein? Welche Rolle spielen Audio und Video im Rahmen des crossmedialen Webangebots? Wie sorgt man dafür, dass der Content auch gefunden wird (Suchmaschinenoptimierung)?" (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Online harassment and abuse against women journalists has become a major hazard to the profession. One that threatens women journalists’ ability to do their jobs. It violates their right to freedom of expression as much as it hampers free and open access to information for all members of society.
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This #SOFJO Resource Guide formulates an answer to that threat. It aims to assist States and non-State actors across the OSCE region in taking real actions to improve the safety of female journalists online. The practices presented are all examples of ways in which international standards and commitments can be realized. This #SOFJO Resource Guide provides the key actors with a brief selection of the most relevant and achievable steps. Taken together, these steps form an interrelated structure in which women journalists can continue their profession online in a safer manner." (Back cover)
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"Though this toolkit explores COVID-19 as a focus topic, the methodology of remote outreaches and campaigns should be used in all the themes you report on in your radio shows; themes such as climate change, sexual and reproductive health, education, migration, violence and community safety, and othe
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rs. This process requires identifying the issues you want to tackle beyond the airwaves, considering how big an impact you’d like to make, who you would like to reach, and the steps it will take to get there while adhering to COVID-19 safety measures." (Introduction)
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"This paper provides a holistic policy approach to the challenge of disinformation by exploring a range of governance responses that rest on the open government principles of transparency, integrity, accountability and stakeholder participation. It offers an analysis of the significant changes that
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are affecting media and information ecosystems, chief among them the growth of digital platforms. Drawing on the implications of this changing landscape, the paper focuses on four policy areas of intervention: public communication for a better dialogue between government and citizens; direct responses to identify and combat disinformation; legal and regulatory policy; and media and civic responses that support better information ecosystems. The paper concludes with proposed steps the OECD can take to build evidence and support policy in this space." (Abstract)
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"This guide is aimed at the management of broadcasting organisations in areas of policy making as well as in programme making and technical planning. It explains in some detail the advantages gained by radio broadcasters introducing the DRM® Digital Radio Mondiale™ technology and some of the tech
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nical and commercial considerations they need to take into account in formulating a strategy for its introduction. The guide is a development of the previous ‘Broadcast User Guide’ and includes information on latest system and regulatory aspects for the introduction of the various DRM system variants. It also includes links to reports and articles on an extensive range of highly successful real-life trials. Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) is the universal, openly standardised digital broadcasting system for all broadcasting frequencies up to 300 MHz, including the AM bands (LF, MF, HF) and VHF bands I, II (FM band) and III. DRM is greener, clearer, wider, bigger, better quality & audio content and cost efficient than analogue radio; it provides digital sound quality and the ease-of-use that comes from digital radio, combined with a wealth of enhanced features such as, Surround Sound, Journaline text information, Slideshow, EPG, and data services. DRM enables digital radio transmissions in the former AM bands (short, medium and long wave, i.e. broadcasting bands up to 30 MHz), providing large coverage areas and low power consumption, as well as in the VHF bands above 30 MHz up to around 300 MHz (including the FM band) for local and regional digital radio services. Irrespective of the transmission frequency, DRM uses the same audio coding, data services, multiplexing and signalling schemes; only the transmission mode parameters (i.e. modulation or baseband parameters) are optimised for the respective frequency band." (Introduction)
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"Der erste große Teil dieses Bandes beschreibt - angefangen bei den "Zehn Geboten" und ihrer Aktualisierung in "The Beach" über das "Opfer" Harry Potters, Blade Runners & Katniss´ in "Tribute von Panem" bis hin zu natürlichen und künstlichen Intelligenzen ("Planet der Affen" und "Ex Machina") -
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wie Religion in aktuellen Filmen thematisiert wird, die sich u. a. mit den Folgen der Digitalisierung und Mechanisierung sowie deren Auswirkungen auf das Menschenbild der Zukunft beschäftigen. Im zweiten Teil finden diese Themen praktisch-theologisch und liturgisch Gestalt, nämlich in Form von Filmgottesdiensten, die als Bausteine für Deutsch- und Religionsunterricht und für Gottesdienste in Schulen, Gemeinden und in der Erwachsenenbildung dienen können." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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