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When Words Were Weapons: Kenya’s Media Turn the Tide on Hate Speech and Conflict
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2013), 71 pp.
"When violence broke out in the final days of 2007 after a bitterly contested election in Kenya, Internews responded within days, working with journalists who were trying and failing to make sense of the unprecedented post-election conflict that swept across their country. Five and a half years late
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Die Rolle der Medien im Demokratisierungsprozess Kenias
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2013), 332 pp.
New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict
New York: International Peace Institute (IPI); UNDP (2013), iv, 94 pp.
Inter-Ethnic Cooperation Revisited: Why Mobile Phones Can Help Prevent Discrete Events of Violence, Using the Kenyan Case Study
Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, volume 2, issue 3 (2013), pp. 1-13
"This paper will critically explore why mobile phones have drawn so much interest from the conflict management community in Kenya, and develop a general set of factors to explain why mobile phones can have a positive effect on conflict prevention efforts generally. Focusing on theories of informatio
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Media Sustainability Index 2012: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa
Washington, DC: IREX (2013), xix, 455 pp.
Access to Information in Africa: Examining Progress Since the APAI Declaration
Windhoek: African Platform on Access to Information (APAI); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 91 pp.
"Out of the twelve countries surveyed, only four have specific access to information laws. These countries are: Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe. However, a significant indication of the shifting tide on the continent is that six of the countries surveyed have some form of specific access to
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Testing a Media Intervention in Kenya: Vioja Mahakamani, Dangerous Speech, and the Benesch Guidelines
Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2013), 29 pp.
"Susan Benesch, human rights scholar, genocide prevention fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, has, over the last several years, developed an analytical framework for identifying ‘dangerous speech’
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Spider Stories 2012
Kista; Stockholm: Spider – The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions; Stockholm University (2013), 99 pp.
"In Spider Stories 2012 you will get an overview of results from Spider projects initiated in 2011-2012 in collaboration with project partners in Cambodia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. In partnership with local organizations, we have supported innovative projects in democracy, education, and
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"This research project addressed specifically the information-seeking behaviour of small scale farming households in Kenya. It focused on how farmers are informed about innovation on new methods of increasing agricultural productivity, which is one of the main challenges for Africa's agriculture and
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Freedom of Expression in Kenya: Exploring Public Use of Old and New Media
Afrobarometer (2012), 12 pp.
"Freedom of expression in Kenya has witnessed several phases of development, ranging from the autocratic to a proactive new media regime. This transformation has been enabled by governance reforms, including repeals and amendment of laws, as well as the promulgation of a new Constitution in 2010. Wi
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"This report finds that while media ownership is sometimes obvious, media owners often use their spouse, parents or trusted friends to register their media outlets, making it difficult to obtain clear data on media ownership. For instance, the researcher notes that the connection of presidential can
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"Citizen Access to Information": Capturing the Evidence Across Zambia, Ghana and Kenya
"In this chapter, we argue that citizen access to information is a catalyst to the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) [...] We examine how citizen access to information varies across a range of population sub-groups, different countries, and across a variety of topics and the exte
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"Considerable attention has been focused on the opportunities presented by new information and communication technologies for development (“ICT4D”) and for government (“ICT4GOV”). The purpose of this report is to analyze their impact on human rights (“ICT4HR”). As Philip Alston, the form
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Community Radio in the Twenty-First Century
Oxford; Bern; Berlin et al.: Peter Lang (2012), ix, 403 pp.
"In the twenty-first century, community radio is fulfilling an increasingly important role in the world’s mediascape. This book documents the ways in which community radio broadcasters and activists are using the medium in countries around the world to challenge political corruption, aid the trans
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The Wanakonnect Pilot Project: Using Mobile Money to Create a Revenue System for Local Radio Stations in Kenya
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2012), 66 pp.
"The community radio stations participating in the pilot project offer special dedication and greeting programs that allow community members to send greetings to friends and family on air. The main objective of this pilot was to understand whether these generally underfunded radio stations could mon
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African Media Barometer: Kenya 2012
Windhoek; Nairobi: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 58 pp.
Community Radio in East Africa: For or by the Community?
In: Community Radio in the Twenty-First Century
Oxford; Bern; Berlin et al.: Peter Lang (2012), pp. 303-320
"The chapter focuses on three East African countries: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Radio broadcasting in these countries is typically divided into two categories: public and private. Although proponents of community radio are pushing for the sector to be recognised as an independent entity, community
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The Performance of Vernacular Radio Stations in Kenya: Monitoring Report
Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2012), viii, 33 pp.
"The Media Council of Kenya (MCK), the statutory body established under the Media Act 2007 that regulates media and advances professionalism of the media in Kenya, monitored a set of ten vernacular radio stations in September/October 2011 in order to assess their current performance. The study looke
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