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Global Information Society Watch 2013: Women's Rights, Gender and ICTs
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2013), 240 pp.
"GISWatch 2013 shows that gains in women’s rights made online are not always certain or stable. While access to the internet for women has increased their participation in the social, economic and governance spheres, there is another side to these opportunities: online harassment, cyberstalking, a
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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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Media Sustainability Index 2012: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa
Washington, DC: IREX (2013), xix, 455 pp.
The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.
"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r
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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa
Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2013), 202 pp.
"This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa’s
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Practical Guide for Digital Switchover (DSO) in Cameroon
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Balancing Act (2013), 77 pp.
"The digital switchover (DSO) is the commonly accepted name given to the process of changing the underlying radio broadcast technology from the outdated analogue system to a system based on equipment capable of transmitting and receiving digital signals. This guide was produced to help with the proc
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Cameroun
Dakar; Johannesburg: Projet pour l’observation et le plaidoyer sur la gouvernance en Afrique (AfriMAP); Initiative de la Société Ouverte pour l’Afrique Occidentale (OSIWA); Programme média des fondations pour une société ouverte (Open Society Media Program – OSMP); Open Society Foundations (2012), xi, 91 pp.
"Le rapport sur la radiodiffusion publique au Cameroun observe que le pays a fait ses preuves en matière de libéralisation des médias depuis l'aube du millénaire, mais qu'en dépit de ses plus de 80 stations de radio et de ses cinq chaînes de télévision nationales, des problèmes subsistent.
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Mobilizing the Hordes: Radio Drama as Development Theatre in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bamenda (CM): Langaa (2012), xvi, 277 pp.
Global Information Society Watch 2012. The Internet and Corruption: Transparency and Accountability Online
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2012), 273 pp.
"GISWatch 2012 explores how the internet is being used to ensure transparency and accountability, the challenges that civil society activists face in fighting corruption, and when the internet fails as an enabler of a transparent and fair society. The eight thematic reports and 48 country reports pu
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The Media Landscape in 28 Countries: Results from a UIS Pilot Survey
Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2012), 84 pp.
"This paper presents the results of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) pilot survey on media statistics conducted in 28 countries in 2011. The survey instruments were designed to provide an initial set of quantitative indicators identified by UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators project. G
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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.
"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi
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Cameroon
Dakar; Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA); Open Society Foundations; Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2012), xi, 88 pp.
"The report on public broadcasting in Cameroon, observes that the country although has a strong track record of media liberalization since the dawn of the millennium, but despite its more than 80 radio and five national television stations challenges remain. Cameroon’s record of upholding press fr
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Cameroon's Private Daily Press: In Search of a Viable Economic Model
African Journalism Studies, volume 33, issue 3 (2012), pp. 13-29
"Around the world, the press is struggling to find its place in today's changing information market. Skeptics foresee an imminent death if it fails to reform its means of production and dissemination, while optimists praise its capacity to resist the onslaught of other mass media. This article aims
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Media Sustainability Index 2010: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa
Washington, DC: IREX (2011), xix, 411 pp.
REDD+ Politics in the Media. A Case Study from Cameroon
Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2011), 26 pp.
Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.
"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the Afric
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Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.
"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E
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Les politiques de la REDD+ dans les médias: Le cas du Cameroun
Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2011), 28 pp.
Mass Media and Democratisation in Cameroon in the Early 1990s
Bamenda: Langaa (2011), xiv, 193 pp.
"In the on-going democratic debate, the Cameroonian media have not played the role of objective mediators. A one-party logic, of which government, opposition and the public are guilty, has prevented Cameroonian multipartyism from addressing the major issue: that of how best to bring about real parti
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