Tag: report

• 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

• Gezi Park Protests Push Turkey’s Media into the Spotlight (Updated)

  By now, you’ll have heard – perhaps via international media, or on Twitter or Facebook – about the protests that started in defence of one of Istanbul’s last remaining green spaces, and have now, in response to heavy-handed policing and broader worries about democratic rights, spread across many cities in Turkey.  I’ve been following the torrent of…

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  01/06/2013

  Policy, Law & Regulation

  #gezipark, censorship, demokrasi, feature, featured, gazetecilik, iyi yönetişim, media policy, media reform, mediapolicy.org, medya politikası, Press freedom, protest, report, research, self-censorship, Turkey, turkiye, twitter, yayın

• Somalia Conference: promises of action on media freedom, safety of journalists

  “We agreed on the important role a free and independent media should play in Somalia, and welcomed the Federal Government’s commitment to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the killing of journalists, and to promote press freedom.” (Somalia Conference 2013: Official Communiqué at GOV.UK.) Yesterday’s conference communiqué was unambiguous on the need to protect the…

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  08/05/2013

  Policy, Law & Regulation

  africa, featured, Horn of Africa, Impunity, journalists safety, Media Law, mediapolicy.org, politics, Press freedom, report, Somalia, UK

• Measures have been taken or sought since the fourteenth century to deal with the problem of disorder relating to football – a 1314 proclamation of Edward II declared: “Forasmuch there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls, from which many evils may arise, which God forbid, we command and forbid…

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  28/02/2012

  Work

  football, history, london, parliament, report, violence

• Notes from Wilton Park, or The Internet Is Not A Horse

  I’ve finally got around to posting my notes for a presentation I gave at a convening in May 2011 on Media, Social Media, and Democratic Governance at Wilton Park (here’s a PDF of the conference programme – and here’s some more about the history of Wilton Park). It was a few months before Cameras Everywhere was published, and it…

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  12/01/2012

  Events, Human rights, Technology, Work

  Cameras Everywhere, democratic governance, information ethics, media literacy, Presentation, report, thinktanks, Wilton Park, WITNESS