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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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Media Development in the Digital Age
By Corinne Cath This post originally appeared on March 14th on the website of Article 19. Watch out for the upcoming report and RSVP here for our discussion on the topic in DC on March 23rd. A breaking headline in a tweet, a presidential inauguration streamed live on social media, and the latest dev... |
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The Missing Stakeholder in Internet Governance ...
As an Internet policy researcher I have closely followed the outcomes of the annual Internet Governance Forum (IGF), but this year was the first time I had the opportunity to participate in person when it was convened two weeks ago in Guadalajara, Mexico. I was there to coordinate CIMA’s new initi... |
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Diversifying Internet Governance with a Focus on...
Seeing as the Internet is now, in many countries, the primary conduit for the circulation of independent journalism, how it is governed will impact both media development and press freedom. Will global Internet policies foster the free circulation of information? Will they be structured in ways that... |
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Takeaways from the global internet report
By Lena Nitsche This post originally appeared on Deutsche Welle Akademie’s #Mediadev blog. According the 2015 Global Internet Report, increased mobile phone penetration isn’t just allowing hundreds of millions of people around the world access to the internet for the first time – users... |
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The Next Billion: Internet Governance Forum USA
So what will be the obstacles to getting just the next billion online? The question was debated at the annual U.S. Internet Governance Forum in Washington, and will be the subject of another round of debates at the Global Internet Governance Forum in Brazil later this year. There are 3 billion peo... |