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Migration von Subsahara-Afrika nach Europa: Motive, Informationsquellen und Wahrnehmung deutschen Engagements

Anke Fiedler

Stuttgart; Berlin: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa);Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2017), 54 pp.

"In dieser Studie wird mithilfe qualitativer Fokusgruppendiskussionen mit Migranten bzw. mit Menschen mit Migrationsabsicht aus Subsahara-Afrika (i) nach Motiven für Migration, (ii) nach der Nutzung von Informationen und dem Wissen über Migration sowie (iii) nach der Rolle von Projekten der intern ... more

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Buy Burkinabè! Yam Pukri’s Agripol Advocacy Platform in Burkina Faso

Sylvestre Ouédraogo, Théophile Assane Sawadogo

Wageningen: Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2017), 6 pp.

"Agripol is a platform that facilitates lobbying and advocacy of government, decision makers and the public by farmers’ organisations and others interested in agricultural development. Yam Pukri, which maintains the site, runs workshops and training courses to help its clients gain lobbying skills ... more

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Press Freedom and Nigeria's Cybercrime Act of 2015: An Assessment

Raymond Adibe, Cyril Chinedu Ike, Celestine Uchechukwu Udeogu

Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 2 (2017), pp. 117-127

"This study assesses the Cybercrime Act 2015 and its implications for online press freedom in the liberal authoritarian state of Nigeria. Specifically, the study examines how the character of political leadership in Nigeria leads to wrongful application of the act to undermine the independence of th ... more

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Media Ownership Monitor Ghana

Reporters Without Borders;Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2017), 567 pp.

"The Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) reveals a high level of audience concentration in various media sectors. An almost maximum concentration was found among the printed press, where the top four media companies (Graphic Communications Group Limited, New Times Corporation, Western Publications Limited ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), 249 pp.

"National and Regional Internet Governance Forums (NRIs) are the stars of the 2017 Global Information Society Watch. The story of NRIs began two years after the first global IGF held in 2006. In 2008, stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda organised national forums and a subsequent Eas ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2017: Internet Governance from the Edges. National and Regional IGFs in Their Own Words

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), 87 pp.

"It is precisely to counterbalance what are largely “outsider” views in the main edition of Global Information Society Watch that we wanted this companion edition to capture the origin stories, achievements and challenges of National and Regional IGF Initiative (NRI) in their own words. Their st ... more

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Questioning the Media-Democracy Link: South African Journalists’ Views

Wallace Chuma, Herman Wasserman, Tanja Bosch, Rebecca Pointer

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 104-128

"It is often assumed that a robust, free and independent media will contribute to the deepening of democracy by keeping governments accountable and broadening citizen participation in deliberative democratic debates. But in new democracies such as South Africa, the deepening and broadening of democr ... more

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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
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Anya Schiffrin, Beatrice Santa-Wood, Susanna De Martino, Ellen Hume, Nicole Pope

Open Society Foundations (2017), 144 pp.

"Journalists in many countries are experimenting with how to build trust and engage with audiences, and our report examines their efforts. In our study we profile organizations that are working to build bridges with their readers, viewers and listeners and deliver relevant news to local audiences. W ... more

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Strengthening Free, Independent and Professional Journalism in Ethiopia: Feasibility Study

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2017), 35 pp.

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Assessment of Media Development in Swaziland: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Vuyisile Sikelela Hlatshwayo

Paris: UNESCO (2017), 133 pp.

"The overall conclusion is that there is an urgent need to address the specific legal framework and major technical and financial challenges identified in this study to ensure pluralism and media diversity in the Kingdom of Swaziland." (Page 10)

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Ethiopia Media Mapping

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2017), 16 pp.

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Using Machine Learning to Analyse Radio Talk in Uganda: Opportunities for Sustainable Development and Humanitarian Action

John Quinn, Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis

UN Global Pulse;Pulse Lab Kampala (2017), 23 pp.

"This report outlines the methodology and processes of the Radio Content Analysis Tool, a prototype developed by Pulse Lab Kampala to analyse public radio content in Uganda and explore its value for informing development of UN projects and programmes on the ground. It distills the technology behind ... more

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Peace and Reconciliation Journalism – Cameroon 2017

Steven Youngblood

Parkvill, Miss.: Center for Global Peace Journalism (2017), 30 pp.

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Innovative Approaches in Supporting Media: Synthesis Report. SDC/SENAP Regional Workshop, June 27-29th, 2017, Nairobi

Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Southern, Eastern, Northern Africa and Palestine Division (SENAP) (2017), 19 pp.

"The overall goal of the workshop was to find new and innovative ways in supporting media in increasingly challenging contexts and to enhance effectiveness of current approaches in order to boost democratisation processes and governance (principles such as citizen participation, efficiency in public ... more

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Der Fluch des Reichtums: Warlords, Konzerne, Schmuggler und die Plünderung Afrikas

Tom Burgis

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 351 pp.

"Erdöl, Gas, Kupfer, Coltan - ohne diese und andere Rohstoffe wäre unser Lebensstil nicht denkbar. Einerseits ist die Weltwirtschaft von ihnen abhängig, andererseits spielt ihre Herkunft in der öffentlichen Debatte wohlhabender Länder kaum eine Rolle. Einige der größten Vorräte dieser Bodens ... more

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Media Portrayal of Women and Media Gender Gap in Africa

Gender Links;African Union, Specialized Technical Committee on Information and Communications (STC-IC) (2017), 18 pp.

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The African University Press

François van Schalkwyk, Thierry M. Luescher

Cape Town: African Minds (2017), 62 pp.

"A holistic way of approaching the question of how African university presses can reposition themselves in support of the broader shift of some African universities towards a greater focus on research, is to consider shifts in the dominant institutional logic in the academic publishing industry. Bas ... more

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So This is Democracy? State of Media Freedom in Southern Africa 2017

Reyhana Masters (ed.)

Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2017), 189 pp.

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Digital Principles Into Practice

Dar es Salaam: Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF) (2017), 15 pp.

"At HDIF, we want to share learning from our own experience to assist players in ICT4D to ensure we are not creating more stacks of unused hardware and limited viability which combine to create a larger wasteland of well-intended development projects. A broad set of donors and partners have combined ... more

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What if We All Governed the Internet? Advancing Multistakeholder Participation in Internet Governance

Anri van der Spuy

Paris: UNESCO (2017), 108 pp.

"The research in these pages covers the theory around multistakeholder participation in Internet governance through a review of relevant literature. It also analyses case studies from Kenya to Brazil, South Korea, and the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which illustrate how multistakeholder approac ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
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