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Gender Assessment of ICT Access and Usage in Africa

Alison Gillwald, Anne Milek, Christoph Stork

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), 39 pp.

"What is clear from the Research ICT Africa (RIA) Household and Individual Access and Usage Survey is that the diffusion of ICT is highly uneven concentrating in urban areas and leaving some rural areas almost untouched. Access to these technologies is constrained by income as is usage, and as they ... more

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Public Diplomacy of Kosovo: Status Quo, Challenges and Options

Martin Wählisch, Behar Xharra

Prishtina (KO): Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2010), 75 pp.

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Barometre des Médias Africains: Mali 2010

Bamako; Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2010), 130 pp.

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Media and the Common Good: Perspectives on Media, Democracy and Responsibility

Chaacha Mwita, Luis G. Franceschi (eds.)

Nairobi; Dar-es-Salaam; Kampala: LawAfrica Publishing;Strathmore University (2010), 169 pp.

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Minutes from the International Partnership Meeting

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2010), 40 pp.

"This report provides an overview of the discussions and conclusions from the International Partnership Meeting in New York on 26 January 2010 organised by the Open Society Institute and International Media Support. At the meeting, 30 media support and press freedom organisations from across the wor ... more

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Médias et bonne gouvernance en Afrique: Concept et cas pratiques

Libreville: UNESCO (2010), xix, 209 pp.

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Winds from the East: How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Influence the Media in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia

Douglas Farah, Andy Mosher

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 32 pp.

"The People's Republic of China is seeking to influence the media in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia through a variety of means: direct aid to state-run media in the form of radio transmitters and financing for national satellites; the provision of content and technology to allies and pote ... more

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Make it Theirs: The Imperative of Local Ownership in Communications and Media Initiatives
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Simon Haselock

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2010), 17 pp.

"This report presents the author's experiences regarding the relation of international interventions and local institutions in the (post-)conflict countries of Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Sudan and Afghanistan. Haselock states that media reforms are most successful where they are the result of partnership ... more

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The Media We Want: The Kenya Media Vulnerabilities Study

Peter Oriare Mbeke, Rosemary Okello-Orlale, Wilson Ugangu

Nairobi: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2010), 64 pp.

"The main finding of this study is that the Kenyan media have been operating in an unpredictable and swiftly changing political, social, cultural, economic and technological environment that has heavily influenced its development. A hostile and inadequate political, legal, policy and regulatory envi ... more

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Writing Change: Affirmative Action as a Tool for Newspaper Transformation at the Durban Post

Miriam Leshin

Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 4, issue 1 (2010), pp. 51-72

"This study explores the use of affirmative action as a tool for transformation in the mainstream English-language press in South Africa through a case study at The Durban Post. It seeks to understand the extent to which the newspaper has transformed its staff, coverage and readership in the eyes of ... more

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Scholarly Publishing in Africa: Opportunities & Impediments

Solani Ngobeni (ed.)

Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa (2010), xxv, 378 pp.

"The proceedings of a conference held at the Africa Institute of South Africa in 2009, this is a major new collection of essays on the state of scholarly publishing in Africa, with a strong emphasis on the situation in South Africa. The conference was convened, and the papers published, in an attemp ... t to influence “policymakers and other relevant stakeholders in developing an enabling environment for scholarly publishing to thrive.” Containing a total of 26 papers – all of them, usefully, preceded by abstracts – content is arranged under seven sections: (i) The State of Research Publishing in Africa, (ii) The State of Scholarly Publishing in Africa, (iii) The Challenges of Book Distribution, (iv) The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on Scholarly Publishing, (v) Alternative Publishing Models, (vi) The Politics of Peer Review in Scholarly Publishing, and (vii) Scholarly Publishing and Intellectual Property Development in Africa. While the majority of the contributors are from South Africa, other contributors include Kenyan veteran publisher Henry Chakava, James Currey of James Currey Publishers, Mary Jay, Chief Executive of the Oxford-based African Books Collective, and a number of academics from the West African region. The book is particularly strong in overviews of scholarly publishing in South Africa, covering both book and journal publishing. It offers some interesting discussions and fresh insights about alternative publishing and distribution models, with articles reporting about new initiatives and strategy approaches, and also including papers on the politics and practise of the peer review process, and on South African intellectual property rights. One or two papers, by academics from other regions of Africa, unfortunately are weak and poorly informed about the current state of scholarly publishing in Africa, for example citing literature that goes back to books and articles published in the 1970s and 1980s. However, the book can be seen as a useful companion to ‘African Scholarly Publishing Essays’, edited by Alois Mlambo, and published by African Books Collective in 2006." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2581) more

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A Literature Review: Nigerian and Ghanaian Videos

Jonathan Haynes

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 22, issue 1 (2010), pp. 105-120

"The main purpose of this review of the published academic literature on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films is to foster self-awareness in this new field of study. This literature has been produced on three continents and out of many academic disciplines; in consequence, scholars tend to make few ref ... more

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Video in Development
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Rico Lie, Andreas Mandler

Wageningen; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA);FAO (2009), 60 pp.

"The book was written mainly to inform rural development professionals, practitioners and decision-makers in a variety of organisations – from NGOs and farmer associations to government departments and research and educational institutions – about the diverse uses of video in development. Specif ... more

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Auslandsmärkte als Chance: Mit ITK aus der Krise

Berlin: Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM);Auswärtiges Amt (2009), 267 pp.

"In Ihren Händen halten Sie die zweite Auflage unserer Publikation „Auslandsmärkte als Chance“. Als wir vor gut zwei Jahren die erste Ausgabe veröffentlichten, florierte die Weltwirtschaft und mit ihr die IT- und Telekommunikationsmärkte. Wer hätte damals gedacht, dass wir im Jahr 2009 die ... more

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African Media Barometer: Botswana 2009

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2009), 70 pp.

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Running Radio Selam: Constraints Facing an Ethiopian Peace Radio Project

Tarjei Kidd Olsen

Oslo: University of Oslo, Master Thesis in Peace and Conflict Studies (2009), 143 pp.

"I have primarily looked at how Radio Selam, an Ethiopian peace radio programme run by the local Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), might have been constrained by four spheres of influence. The spheres I looked at encapsulated certain organizational, individual, economic and politica ... more

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Entre évasion et invasion, un album jeunesse déterritorialisé ? Des échanges de production entre la France et l’Afrique francophone

Marion Van Staeyen

Paris: Université Paris XIII - Villetaneuse, UFR des Sciences de la Communication, Master Thesis (2009), 117 pp.

"Alors que l’UNESCO a adopté, en 2005, une Convention sur la protection et la promotion de la diversité des expressions culturelles entendant ainsi soutenir la bibliodiversité, la présente étude entend démontrer que les échanges de livres, et plus précisément d’albums jeunesse, entre la ... more

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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)

New York: Peter Lang (2009), xii, 277 pp.

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Rebel Voices and Radio Actors: In Pursuit of Dialogue and Debate in Northern Uganda

Maggie Ibrahim

Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 610-620

"The town of Gulu in northern Uganda stood still as the leader of a then 16-year-old insurgency against the government was heard live through a local government radio station. On 28 December 2002, Joseph Kony called in to Mega FM’s live debate talk show and was heard throughout northern Uganda. Th ... more

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Zur ambivalenten Rolle von Religion in afrikanischen Gewaltkonflikten

Matthias Basedau, Peter Körner

Osnabrück: Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung (DSF) (2009), 48 pp.

"Die Rolle von Religion in subsaharischen Gewaltkonflikten stellt ein weitgehend vernachlässigtes Forschungsfeld dar, besonders was generalisierende empirische Studien angeht. Eine von der DSF finanzierte Pilotstudie zur Ambivalenz von Religion in Gewaltkonflikten – der ein umfangreicheres Vorhab ... en folgen soll – näherte sich der Thematik zunächst auf Grundlage einer umfangreichen Bibliographie, der Würdigung des Forschungsstandes und der Entwicklung von Forschungshypothesen an. Mittels der Analyse von vier Variablenclustern, nämlich a) konfliktspezifischen Merkmalen (wie Dauer, Intensität, Konfliktprävalenz), b) klassischen risk factors (wie Armut, ethnische Zersplitterung, vorherige Konflikte), c) religionsdemographischen Merkmalen (wie Anteile und Polarisierungsgrad von Gruppen) und d) Variablen, welche die Rolle von Religion in Gewaltkonflikten beschreiben (wie religiös motivierte Gewalt- oder Friedensaufrufe/Friedensinitiativen, Überlappung von religiösen Identitäten mit Konfliktlinien, Verbindungen von Konfliktparteien und religiösen Organisationen) wurden qualitative fact sheets für 28 Konfliktfälle erstellt und in einer Datenbank erfasst, um sie auch für Korrelationsanalysen und makroqualitative Vergleichsverfahren analysefähig zu machen. Auf der deskriptiven Ebene bestätigen die Datenbankanalysen eindrucksvoll die Ambivalenz religiöser Faktoren in Gewaltkonflikten: In 19 von 28 Fällen konnten eskalierende und deeskalierende Elemente entdeckt werden, in sechs weiteren Fällen ausschließlich Deeskalation. Religion spielt damit in insgesamt 25 der 28 Fälle und damit weitaus häufiger eine Rolle als gemeinhin angenommen, auch wenn theologische Inhalte bzw. Ideen in maximal acht Fällen als Teilursachen in Betracht kommen (v.a. Sudan, Nordnigeria und Somalia). Bivariate Analysen und makroqualitative Vergleiche zeigen, dass zahlreiche religiöse Variablen einen signifikanten Einfluss auf die Konfliktwahrscheinlichkeit nach 1990 bzw. auf das Andauern des Konflikts haben (bei der Konfliktintensität sind die Ergebnisse nicht robust und für die Konfliktdauer gibt es keine Zusammenhänge). Die Überlappung religiöser und anderer Identitäten erweist sich als ähnlich einflussreich und signifikant wie Verbindungen von religiösen Organisationen und Konfliktparteien sowie der eskalierende Gebrauch religiöser Ideen durch religiöse und politische Führer (v.a. Gewaltaufrufe). Obwohl Friedensaufrufe und -initiativen häufiger beobachtbar sind, kann für sie – ebenso wie für die Existenz interreligiöser Netzwerke – kein positiver Einfluss auf Frieden festgestellt werden. Nicht-religiöse Risikofaktoren ergeben dagegen starke Zusammenhänge (v.a. Einkommen, vorheriger Konflikt, ethnische Fragmentierung), die insgesamt etwas stärker sind als die Korrelationen mit religiösen Faktoren. Unterstützung gibt es schließlich für eine „Mobilisierungsthese“: Makroqualitative Vergleiche zeigen, dass religiös begründete Gewaltaufrufe besonders dann wahrscheinlich sind, wenn religiöse mit anderen sozialen Identitäten und den Konfliktlinien parallel verlaufen und Beziehungen zwischen den Konfliktparteien und religiösen Organisationen bestehen." (Zusammenfassung) more

Make it Theirs: The Imperative of Local Ownership in Communications and Media Initiatives Top Insights

Video in Development Key Guidance

Make it Theirs: The Imperative of Local Ownership in Communications and Media Initiatives
Top Insights

Video in Development
Key Guidance