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Facebook and Google will not save us from fake n...
By Aleksander Dardeli Every day, our world produces 2.5 quintillion bytes of data, the equivalent of 250,000 Libraries of Congress, much of it information generated and disseminated via social media by people like you and me. It is increasingly clear that the news media no longer have a monopoly on... |
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Open Internet Principles for Democracy: Putting ...
Last year the editor of Abia Facts Newspaper, a small, local news platform in Nigeria was arrested at his home on charges of blackmail and criminal defamation. According to the state security officers who detained him, his crime was the reporting he had done on a local politician. More startling, ho... |
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Audiences worldwide are hungry for quality news ...
There is growing concern that the channels for digitally distributing news–chief among them Facebook and Google–direct traffic and resources away from smaller, independent outlets in growing media markets. Opaque and fast-changing algorithms can devastate readership overnight, and with the stagg... |
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Multistakeholder Internet Governance Under Attac...
Once a shining example of the power of socioeconomic inclusion and the effectiveness of strengthening civic participation, the political upheaval in Brazil over the past two years has destabilized democratic gains once thought to be well established. As a researcher who was first drawn to Brazil bec... |
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Status Code 451: An Internet Governance Standard...
By Corinne Cath and Daniel O’Maley Sometimes a simple paragraph of computer code can help media developers fight online censorship. And this is important because such censorship is increasingly impeding the work of the media development community across the world. For many people from the medi... |
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Cameroon’s Internet Shutdown Cannot Stifle Dis...
By Elie Smith The Internet has been turned off for more than 80 days in parts of the West African country of Cameroon. And while this has garnered international condemnation, what most onlookers have not yet fully grasped is how the shutdown is related to long-simmering regional tensions within the ... |
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In Vietnam, Digital is Democratizing
By Pham Muoi Nguyen and Dr. Quan-Hoang Vuong Vietnam has long been a place where media and newspapers are under strict control both by the government as well as the propaganda departments of the communist party. Although the country has more than 850 newspapers and magazines, the homogeneity in ... |
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Empowering Girls Online: ICTs and Young Women in...
By Nyaradzo Mashayamombe Internet connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa has grown quickly over the past couple of years. In my country of Zimbabwe, for example, by 2015, 48 percent of the population had internet access according to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulation Authority of Zimbabwe (PO... |
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What recent protests in the Democratic Republic ...
When people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) took to Twitter in June to protest skyrocketing internet and mobile data prices, it was only the latest in a series of struggles between Congolese netizens and the government over internet policy. On May 17, netizens in the DRC were shocked t... |
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Promoting access to ICTs in Africa: Enhancing Po...
By Ateki Seta Caxton Editor’s Note: This week the Web We Want initiative of the World Wide Web Foundation is sponsoring the F.A.S.T. Africa: Full Internet for All week of action. The goal is to raise awareness about the need for high speed Internet throughout Africa. CIMA supports efforts to addre... |