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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Eastern and Southern Caribbean
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2022), 118 pp.
"The Eastern and Southern Caribbean (ESC) Regional Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) report presents the findings and recommendations of the DECA, covering 11 ESC countries: Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenad
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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Uzbekistan
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2022), 116 pp.
"Key findings: Overcoming the digital divides between men and women and urban and rural populations requires long-term planning and resource commitments that include broad stakeholder engagement and coordination [...] The public’s appetite for online content is growing, but accessible, diverse, hi
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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Serbia
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2021), 58 pp.
"The Serbian government prioritizes digitalization. Serbia’s digital transformation accelerated in 2017 with the government’s focus on building a digital government, or “digitalization” as defined by Serbians, and Serbia’s participation in the Digital Agenda for the Western Balkans. As one
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Connectivity in the Least Developed Countries: Status report 2021
Geneva: ITU (2021), ix, 59 pp.
"In 2020, the 46 LDCs had a combined population of 1.06 billion people and are highly vulnerable, with low levels of human development. And yet, geography, population size and income vary within the group, and these different conditions affect digital development.
National data infrastructure is an
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Pakistan's Internet Landscape 2020
Islamabad: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Bytes for All (2021), 89 pp.
"The internet brought new opportunities for Pakistan to develop into a progressive society and a more democratic country, and it opened doors for more forms of criminal activity (like fraud, child pornography, etc.), more intimidation and the spreading extremism, and more information gathering on ci
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Digital 2021: Global Overview Report
We Are Social;Hootsuite (2021), 300 slides
"Many people connected to the internet for the first time as they adapted to the challenges of COVID-19, while existing users embraced new digital tools and rediscovered old favourites. As a result, many of the indicators in our Global Digital Reports have seen remarkable levels of growth over the p
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Incorporating the Digital Commons: Corporate Involvement in Free and Open Source Software
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
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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Kenya
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2020), 42 pp.
"Kenya’s digital ecosystem has significant strengths not yet fully leveraged:
• Political interest in digital technology at national and county level: The Government of Kenya’s
(GoK) digital economy blueprint, ICT Masterplan, and eCitizen (government service platform for
Kenyan citizens and re
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Data Imperialism: The GDPR's Disastrous Impact on Africa's E-Commerce Markets
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, volume 53, issue 2 (2020), pp. 684-711
"The European Union (EU) recently passed the General Data Protection Regulation-a sweeping regulatory framework that sets a new global standard for the collection, storage, and use of personal data. To ensure far-reaching compliance with the GDPR, the EU has adopted a strict take-it-or-leave-it appr
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Tecnologías digitales: Miradas críticas de la apropiación en América Latina
Buenos Aires; Montevideo: CLACSO;RIAT (2019), 405 pp.
Gerechtigkeit 4.0: Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf den Globalen Süden
Top Insights
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2019), 74 pp.
"Führende Tech-Konzerne, allen voran die aus dem Silicon Valley, instrumentalisieren zunehmend das Handelsrecht für ihre Interessen, wie die von der US-Regierung im Jahre 2000 verabschiedete Digitale Agenda zeigt. Dabei geht es längst nicht mehr nur um die Reduzierung von Zöllen auf digitale Pro
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Digital Economies at Global Margins
Top Insights
Cambridge, Mass.; London; Ottawa: MIT Press;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2019), x, 378 pp.
Global Justice 4.0: The Impacts of Digitalisation on the Global South
Top Insights
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2019), 74 pp.
"This publication discusses the extent to which digital technology can help tackle poverty and social inequality. Does it increase or restrict the opportunities for social and economic participation open to disadvantaged people? We analyse the history of e-commerce in the light of this question. We
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Numérique, espaces et sociétés en Afrique
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 403 pp.
Reaping Digital Dividends: Leveraging the Internet for Development in Europe and Central Asia
Washington, DC: World Bank (2017), xxii, 229 pp.
"Unfortunately, the Internet has fallen short of its promises in some other aspects, as its benefits have not fully reached people in the bottom of the income distribution. For example, skilled workers are better able to leverage the Internet to increase their earnings, whereas unskilled workers fac
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The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (2013), xxxii, 293 pp.
"Over just a decade in India, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare, unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized staple that even poor fisherman can afford. Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey investigate the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history and
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Enabling Openness: The Future of the Information Society in Latin America and the Caribbean
Montevideo; Ottawa: Comunica;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2013), 200 pp.
Surfing the App Souq: Islamic Applications for Mobile Devices
CyberOrient, volume 4, issue 1 (2010), pp. 3-18
"This article introduces issues associated with Islamic apps for mobile devices, and surveys some of the products that have emerged into the market. It considers the potential impact of mobile phone interfaces in relation to interpretations of Islam and the use of Islamic resources, given that mobil
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China's Digital Generations 2.0: Digital Media and Commerce Go Mainstream
Boston, Mass.: Boston Consulting Group (2010), 31 pp.
Internet in China
Innsbruck: Innsbrucker Diskussionspapiere zu Politik, Religion und Kunst (IDPRK) (2010), 30 pp.
"Mit geschätzten 400 Millionen Internetnutzern (Juni 2010) ist die VR China vor den USA der größte nationale Internetmarkt. Nach den USA und Japan bildet China den weltweit drittgrößten Markt fur Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien. Die drei an der US-amerikanischen Nasdaq-Borse gehand
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