Category: Research & Evidence

• Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends, 2013 edition

  Mary Meeker of American venture capital firm KPCB has released her annual Internet Trends Report. This year she highlights several important trends, including a section extracting lessons from the Chinese tech market, data on the eye-popping rise in tablet shipments worldwide, and indicators for the increasing adoption of wearable/flyable/scannable technology. Essential reading for anyone interested…

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  04/06/2013

  Research & Evidence

  china, data, featured, internet, mediapolicy.org, report, social media, trends, usa

• Policy-making 2.0 – the EU’s Crossover Project

  How can policy-making be made more timely and participatory? How can policy-modelling make better use of ICTs and data? Questions pertinent to the media policy community all over the world… Well, the EU’s Crossover project set out to answer these and related questions, and on 17th and 18th June, they’re holding their final project conference in…

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  31/05/2013

  Research & Evidence

  conference, europe, mediapolicy.org, participation, policy-making, social media, Technology

• “Counting What Counts” – Nesta on Big Data in the arts and cultural sectors

  In this excellent February 2013 paper for Nesta, Counting What Counts, Anthony Lilley, never one to mince his words, pushes the arts and cultural sector (public service broadcasting included) to embrace the opportunity of Big Data: There are some fundamental barriers to the use of big data approaches in arts and cultural institutions. The first…

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  31/05/2013

  Research & Evidence

  culture, data, funding, investment, mediapolicy.org, public service broadcasting, resilience

• New on mediapolicy – AfriMAP reports

  Over the past couple of days, we’ve added a new section making it easier for you to access the work of our colleagues in the AfriMAP project. As with the Mapping Digital Media section, you can now also read AfriMAP reports about public media environments in Africa right here on mediapolicy.org. Visit mediapolicy.org/AfriMAP to learn…

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  04/04/2013

  Research & Evidence

  africa, AFRIMAP, Benin, Cameroon, kenya, Mali, mediapolicy.org, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Public Media, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, zimbabwe