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Digital Discrimination: Political Bias in Internet Service Provision Across Ethnic Groups
Science, volume 353, issue 6304 (2016), pp. 1151-1155
"The global expansion of the Internet is frequently associated with increased government transparency, political rights, and democracy. However, this assumption depends on marginalized groups getting access in the first place. Here we document a strong and persistent political bias in the allocation
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Mapping the Cyber Policy Landscape: Kenya
London: Global Partners Digital (2016), 21 pp.
"This mapping study investigates the ways in which the Kenyan government and other actors have initiated or engaged in multistakeholder processes in order to address cybersecurity-related matters in the country. Based on this, it will identify best practices, gaps and missing links, as well as oppor
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Guidebook Internet Governance: Media Freedom in a Connected World
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; iRights.Lab (2016), 39 pp.
"To many in the media, Internet governance seems to be an issue far removed from their daily life and work. This misconception can have substantial consequences. The Internet is fast becoming the infrastructure for all communications between media and citizens. If journalists and media freedom activ
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"This series aims to help human rights defenders develop the tools, skills and knowledge they need to engage effectively in cyber policy debates. The series is structured around five modules. The first four each focus on a different aspect of cyber policy - human rights, cybersecurity, regulatory fr
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Principes de la gouvernance de l'Internet: Analyse comparative
Paris: UNESCO (2015), 96 pp.
"Cette étude comprend une évaluation à la fois quantitative et qualitative : d’un côté, la cinquantaine de déclarations, directives et cadres évalués sont présentés brièvement dans le contexte donné; d’un autre côté, les questions contenues dans ces documents sont analysées d’un
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Chaos and Control: The Competing Tensions of Internet Governance in Iran
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS); Small Media (2015), 52 pp.
"Some key findings from the report include: Iran's primary objective has been to challenge existing internet governance structures, most notably the United States' privileged position vis-à-vis the IANA and ICANN; it is too simplistic to say that Iran allies only with authoritarian countries on int
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The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms: A Positive Agenda for Human Rights Online
London: Global Partners Digital (2015), 20 pp.
"The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms was drafted by African civil society organisations to guide the creation of a positive, rights-based and democratically governed Internet policy environment in Africa. The initiative is part of a rich heritage of freedom of expression advocacy
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Principles for Governing the Internet: A Comparative Analysis
Paris: UNESCO (2015), 88 pp.
"This study encompasses both quantitative and qualitative assessment: On the one hand, the more than 50 evaluated declarations, guidelines, and frameworks are briefly described in the given context; on the other hand, the issues contained in these documents are also qualitatively analyzed. In this,
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New Media and the Developmental State in Ethiopia
African Affairs, volume 113, issue 451 (2014), pp. 279-299
"The Ethiopian government, led by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has developed one of the most restrictive systems for the regulation of new media in Africa. So far, most discussion has focused on the measures employed by the EPRDF to prevent the Internet and mobile p
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State of Evidence: The Economic Impact of a Human Rights-Based Internet
London: Global Partners Digital (2014), 30 pp.
"This paper takes four key policy issues for protecting human rights online - net neutrality; an absence of arbitrary online filtering and blocking; an absence of arbitrary surveillance; and protecting intermediaries from liability for user-generated content. For each policy area it summarises the t
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The New Gatekeepers: Controlling Information in the Internet Age
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 54 pp.
"Internet companies have become the new gatekeepers of information–and their data-parsing algorithms the twenty-first century equivalent of the stereotypical editor with the green eyeshade who filtered the news before passing it along to readers .. As they have expanded globally, these pioneering
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"The Internet will generate economic growth and social transformation in six sectors in particular: financial services, education, health, retail, agriculture, and government. In financial services, for example, M.Pesa's mobile money solutions have brought millions of Kenyans onto the financial grid
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Internet Policies: Online Child Protection and Empowerment in a Global Context
In: The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media
London; New York: Routledge (2013), pp. 395-402
Internet Governance: Wer regiert wie das Internet?
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2013), viii, 268 pp.
"Über die politische Einschätzung und den Regelungsbedarf des Internets ist im Laufe seiner kurzen Geschichte weltweit schon viel und unterschiedlich debattiert worden. Wiederholt sind diverse Themen in den Vordergrund geschoben worden: etwa digital divide, Netzneutralität, Cyberkriminalität, Da
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Deciphering Russia: Russia’s Perspectives on Internet Policy and Governance
London: Global Partners Digital (2013), 18 pp.
"In the last few years, Russia has become an important player in the international internet governance debate, pushing for a governance model that is state-centric, hierarchical and based on the inviolability of state sovereignty. Russia has not only articulated an alternative model at forums like t
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