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Freedom of Expression on the Internet
Media, Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe report assesses the compliance of applicable national Internet legislation andpractices with existing OSCE media freedom commitments, Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (where applicable) as well as the case law of the...
IAPA General Assembly Country Reports
Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Report, Civil SocietyWith more than 500 representatives from the media in the Americas participating, between November 5th and 9th 2010 the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) reviewed the performance of press freedom country-by-country during its annual meeting held in Merida, Mexico. Official documents from this meeting - 25 reports, 22 resolutions and conclusions - are available in English...
World Press Freedom Index 2010
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Civil SocietyThe World Press Freedom Index 2010 scores countries on levels of press freedom and the working conditions of journalists. It finds that Europe, which has traditionally been ranked high in the index, has slipped. Thirteen of the EU’s 27 members are in the top 20 but some of the other 14 are very low in the ranking. Italy is 49th, Romania is 52nd and Greece and Bulgaria are tied at...
Data-driven journalism: What is there to learn?
Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis collection of resources presents an overview of data-driven journalism: what it is today and what it might become in the future. The idea is to provide both experienced journalists and newcomers with a well- structured primer, while breaking down some of the barriers holding back coders and non-coders alike from starting to experiment. We need better solutions, good...
Getting Away With Murder: CPJ’s 2010 Impunity Index
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Justice, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis is the third year CPJ has published its Impunity Index, which calculates the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of a country’s population. In compiling the index, CPJ examined journalist murders in every nation in the world for the years 2000 through 2009. Cases are considered unsolved when no convictions have been obtained. Only those nations with five or...
An Assessment of the Role of Community Radio in Peacebuilding and Development: Case Studies in Liberia and Sierra Leone
Africa, Civil Society, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis five-page report details the results of an evaluation of four community radio stations in rural Sierra Leone and Liberia. The evaluation focused on areas still struggling to achieve meaningful development in a post-conflict setting and was designed to assess the relationships between drivers of development and community radio stations. The study found that community radios are...
Attacks on the Press 2009: A Worldwide Survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) provides statistics and analysis on media freedom around the world and to which extent journalists are killed, imprisoned or otherwise harassed while doing their job. It also provides country specific summaries on media freedom. The report also tries to tackle the shifting role of the media and traditional (print)...
Freedom on the Net: a global assessment of Internet and digital media
Civil Society, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThe study evaluates the level of internet and mobile phone freedom experienced by average users and activists in a sample of 15 countries across 6 regions. It is based on a newly developed set of 19 indicators. The index addresses a range of factors that might affect freedom, including the state of telecommunications infrastructure, government restrictions on access to technology,...
The Making of Policy: Institutionalized or Not?
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Democracy, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Parliament, Political Parties, Inter-Governmental OrganizationFormal analysis of policy-making within the realm of political institutions has deepened the understanding of how political institutions shape economic policies. Other than voting, forming political parties, bargaining in the legislature, and the like, there are a number of alternative political technologies (APTs), like threats of violence and of disruption of economic activity,...
Impact assessment of ICT-for-development projects: a compendium of approaches
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Media, Academic/Think TankThis paper is a part of the Development Informatics working paper series, which discusses the broad issues surrounding information, knowledge, information systems, and information and communication technologies in the process of socio-economic development. While there has been an increase in the investment in information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) projects, little is...