13 Feb 2016 Media Development 2016/1 Editorial

A quarter of a century ago, in an essay published in the journalReligion and Society, Michael Traber wrote:

“Communication, both public and private, is a fundamental human right and, as such, the precondition for other human rights, because communication is intimately bound up with what...

13 Feb 2016 From theory to practice: The right to communicate

In 2015 I was lucky enough to be chosen by WACC to evaluate its small-grants programme, under which development partners all over the world are annually selected for grants to implement communication-related projects and to build their capacities in this area....

13 Feb 2016 Big data analytics and the right to privacy

My work addresses communication rights in the context of the widespread growth and expansion of the Internet. In particular, I focus on privacy rights in the context of Internet-based data collection and analysis (big data analytics)....