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State of Internet Freedom in Malawi 2019: Mapping Trends in Government Internet Controls, 1999-2019

Jimmy Kainja

Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 18 pp.

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Digital Inequalities in the Global South

Massimo Ragnedda, Anna Gladkova (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xvii, 372 pp.

"This book discusses how digital inequalities today may lead to other types of inequalities in the Global South. Contributions to this collection move past discussing an access problem - a binary division between 'haves and have-nots' - to analyse complex inequalities in the internet use, benefits, ... more

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Watchdog Role: How Malawi Media Utilise Question Time During Press Briefings

Albert Sharra

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 25 pp.

"This paper explores how Malawian media utilise question time during press briefings to fulfil its watchdog role. Using the concept of ‘journalistic interview’, which treats interviews between journalists and politicians as an encounter of two institutions, each making a claim on its legitimacy, ... more

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The Role of Community Radio in Promotion of Indigenous Minority Languages and Cultures in Malawi

Victor Chikaipa, Anthony Mavuto Gunde

Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 28, issue 2 (2020), pp. 327-343

"This article analyzes the role of community radio broadcasting in promoting indigenous minority languages and cultures in selected parts of Malawi. The study collected empirical data from two community radio stations and their surrounding populations. Using the theories of ethnolinguistic vitality ... more

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How African Economies Work: A Guide to Business and Economics Reporting
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Nixon K. Kariithi (ed.)

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 220 pp.

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Creating Evidence-Based Youth Mental Health Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Description of the Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania

Stanley Kutcher, Kevin Perkins, Heather Gilberds, Michael Udedi, Omary Ubuguyu, Tasiana Njau, Rex Chapota, Mina Hashish

Frontiers in Psychiatry, volume 10, issue 542 (2019), 8 pp.

"Addressing depression in young people is a health-care policy need in sub-Saharan Africa. There exists poor mental health literacy, high levels of stigma, and weak capacity at the community level to address this health-care need. These challenges are significant barriers to accessing mental health ... care for depression, soon to be the largest single contributor to the global burden of disease. We here describe an innovative approach that addresses these issues simultaneously while concurrently strengthening key mental health components in existing education and health-care systems as successfully applied in Malawi and replicated in Tanzania. Improving the pathway to care for young people with depression requires the following: improving mental health literacy (MHL) of communities, youth, and teachers; enhancing case identification and linking schools to community health clinics; improving the capacity of community health-care providers to identify, diagnose, and effectively treat depression in youth. Funded by Grand Challenges Canada, we developed and applied a program called “An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Challenge of Depression Among the Youth in Malawi and Tanzania” (IACD). This was an example of, a horizontally integrated pathway to care model designed to be applied in low-resource settings. The model is designed to 1) improve awareness/knowledge of mental health and mental disorders (especially depression) in communities; 2) enhance mental health literacy among youth and teachers within schools; 3) enhance capacity for teachers to identify students with possible depression; 4) create linkages between schools and community health clinics for improved access to mental health care for youth identified with possible depression; and 5) enhance the capacity of community-based health-care providers to identify, diagnose, and effectively treat youth with depression. With the use of interactive, youth-informed weekly radio programs, mental health curriculum training for teachers and peer educators in secondary schools, and a clinical competency training program for community-based health workers, the innovation created a “hub and spoke” model for improving mental health care for young people. Positive results obtained in Malawi and replicated in Tanzania suggest that this approach may provide an effective and potentially sustainable framework for enhancing youth mental health care, thus providing a policy ready framework that can be considered for application in sub-Saharan Africa." (Abstract) more

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Journalism and Human Rights Standards in Africa: Reportage of Violence Against Persons with Albinism in Malawian Newspapers

Joe Mlenga

African Human Rights Yearbook (2019), 15 pp.

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Pooling Aid Sector Demand for Digital Public Goods: Lessons from Sizing Mobile Channel Demand in Sub-Saharan Africa

Digital Impact Alliance (dial);Altai Consulting (2019), 38 pp.

"We started by performing fieldwork in five countries, covering the four main SSA regions: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. We then conducted 116 interviews across 78 organizations, covering the overall ecosystem: mobile network operators (MNOs), aggreg ... more

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Motsutsana ndi zovuta zonse = Against all odds. A participatory film project in Dowa, Malawi. Facilitator's guide

Steps;Social Mobilization for Transformation (SMOT) (2019), 11 pp.

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Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Article 19;Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2019), 87 pp.

"Artificial intelligence (AI) is now receiving unprecedented global attention as it finds widespread practical application in multiple spheres of activity. But what are the human rights, social justice and development implications of AI when used in areas such as health, education and social service ... more

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Creating Mobile Health Solutions for Behaviour Change: A Study of Eight Services in the MNutrition Initiative Portfolio

Kim Viljoen, Tobias Wacker

London: GSMA;Altai Consulting (2018), 50 pp.

"The GSMA mHealth programme, under the mNutrition Initiative funded by UK aid (the UK Department for International Development, DFID), has been working with mobile network operators (MNOs) and other mobile and health sector stakeholders to support the launch and scale of mobile health (mHealth) valu ... more

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Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good?
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Florencia Enghel, Jessica Noske-Turner (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 182 pp.

"International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations and information. This book unpacks various ways in which different efforts to do good are com ... more

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Her Farm Radio: Building Knowledge and Developing the Capacity of Malawi’s Female Farmers on Forest Landscape Restoration

Augustine Mulomole, Catherine Mloza Banda, Rex Chapota

IUCN (2018), 12 pp.

"As farmers, foresters and providers, women have a unique understanding of the ecosystems they live alongside. A pioneering radio programme in Malawi is tapping into this immense body of knowledge by creating a platform for women to engage in landscape restoration." (Page 1)

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Journalism Education and Training in Malawi: A Case for a National Policy

Levi Zeleza Manda, Noel Drake Kufaine

Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2018), pp. 35-53

"[...] despite the welcome increase in the number of journalism and communication qualifications offered by public and private journalism training colleges in Malawi, the quality of the output is still lackluster. This is overwhelmingly because practical skills courses are taught inadequately, hapha ... more

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Privacy and Personal Data Challenges and Trends in Malawi

Kampala: CIPESA (2018), 19 pp.

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New Media and the Mediatisation of Religion: An African Perspective

Gabriel Faimau, William O. Lesitaokana (eds.)

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2018), xi, 173 pp.

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Questioning the Role of Foreign Aid in Media System Research

Suzanne Temwa Gondwe Harris

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa

Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 401-412

"While the internal dynamics or the role of the state has had a significant bearing on how media systems evolve and change, both internal and external factors have contributed to the type of media that exists in Malawi today. Although Hallin and Mancini did not include at length the role of external ... more

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Public Engagement in Malawi Through a Health-Talk Radio Programme ‘Umoyo Nkukambirana’: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation

Deborah Nyirenda, Tamara Chipasula Makawa, Chapita, Greyson, Chisomo Mdalla, Nkolokosa, Mzati et al.

Public Understanding of Science, volume 27, issue 2 (2018), pp. 229-242

"Radio is an effective source of health information in many resource poor countries. In Malawi, 53% of households own radios however few radio programmes in Malawi focus on health issues in the context of medical research. An interactive health-talk radio programme ‘Umoyo nkukambirana’ was intro ... more

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The Daughters of St Paul in Africa 1958-2015

Teresa Marcazzan (ed.)

Nairobi: Paulines Publications Africa (2018), 352 pp.

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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp, Jessica White (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.

"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice ... more

How African Economies Work: A Guide to Business and Economics Reporting Key Guidance

Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development Top Insights

Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good? Top Insights

Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy Top Insights

How African Economies Work: A Guide to Business and Economics Reporting
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Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development
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Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good?
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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