Tag: mediapolicy.org

• The mobile web and press freedom

  Last month, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) – a multi-stakeholder coalition of ICT companies, civil society organisations, investors and academics – signed a cooperation agreement with another body called Industry Dialogue, or, to give it its full name, Telecommunications Industry Dialogue on Freedom of Expression and Privacy. Why should journalism and media policy people care about this? Two reasons… First,…

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  24/04/2013

  Policy, Law & Regulation

  Burma, Citizen Media, digital divide, Human rights, ICTs, leapfrogging, Media Consumption, mediapolicy.org, mobiles, myanmar, telecoms

• Beppe Grillo: Italian population living in a “gigantic ‘Truman Show’”

  So the long-standing debate about the independence of Italy’s public broadcaster, RAI – addressed in Mapping Digital Media: Italy, and by the Open Media Coalition, Italy’s media reform movement – has now received the Grillo treatment. Italian comedian Beppe Grillo last week accelerated debate in Italy about the independence of broadcast media and journalism from…

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  09/04/2013

  Media, Policy, Law & Regulation

  #raisenzapartite, beppe grillo, Broadcasting, Italy, mediapolicy.org, Ownership, Public Media, RAI

• 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

• Urgent: micro-grants available for ITU/WCIT work (deadline Wednesday night)

  Here’s an urgent message from the Mozilla Foundation regarding micro-grants for work related to the ITU (deadline Wednesday night GMT) – read below, and send your application to apply@mozillafoundation.org (do not send your application to mediapolicy.org or to OSF). — Open Internet Microgrants to Support Civil Society Engagement with the ITU On December 3rd, the…

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  12/11/2012

  Policy, Law & Regulation

  advocacy, Dubai, funding, ITU, mediapolicy.org, Mozilla Foundation, WCIT

• Video: Rebecca Mackinnon on press freedom and internet freedom

  In Zagreb, researchers, journalists and policy-makers from Croatia and beyond have been meeting on October 4th and 5th to discuss Digital Freedom of Expression, and the challenges faced by public media services and non-profit media. (Here’s the conference agenda in Word and as a PDF.) OSF’s own recent Mapping Digital Media report for Croatia covers…

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  05/10/2012

  Policy, Law & Regulation

  Broadcasting, conference, croatia, mediapolicy.org, Public Media