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16 Nov 2025 Media Development 2025-4 online magazine and pdf

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[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""] Media Development 2025-4 Integrity and Trust Underpin the Digital Sphere Civic space enables civil society to play a role in political, economic and social life. To advance the cause of communication justice worldwide, we must listen to the voices...

16 Nov 2025 Media Development 2025/4 Editorial

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Civic space enables civil society to play a role in political, economic and social life. When civic freedoms shrink, people are deterred from expressing themselves freely, from protesting publicly, and begin to self-censor. Together these factors erode democratic accountability. Earlier in 2025, the Civicus Monitor Watchlist,...

16 Nov 2025 Communication, language, and the future of the Internet

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Theresa Swinehart When we think about the Internet, it’s easy to focus on what it delivers: instant communication, access to knowledge, or new ways to connect to each other, conduct business, build community, and drive innovation. Despite its wide-ranging impact on our day-to-day lives, we rarely...

16 Nov 2025 Observations from the Internet Governance Forum 2025

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Ralf Peter Reimann Who owns the Internet? The answer is actually clear. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the global internet’s domain system, operates as a nonprofit public benefit corporation. No single country or company owns the internet. Instead, ICANN itself...

16 Nov 2025 Digital justice After WSIS+20: What the Global Digital Compact means for India’s marginalised

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Aniruddha Jena and Sriyanka Sahoo The 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20) and the Global Digital Compact set out a simple test: the digital world should expand rights, dignity and opportunity, not narrow them. [1][2] In an eastern India state, Odisha,...

16 Nov 2025 Building digital resilience and rights in the Middle East

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Kamal Sedra In the early days of the Arab Spring, digital platforms lit up with the voices of citizens reclaiming their space in history. Mobile phones turned into tools of truth, livestreams outpaced official narratives, and hashtags transcended borders. It was the dawn of what many...

16 Nov 2025 El reto permanente por la pluralidad e inclusión de voces

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José Luis Aguirre Alvis De la realidad del Sur a los debates globales del WSIS: el caso del Proyecto “Escuchar las Voces de la Amazonia: Comunicación Integral para Comunicadores Amazónicos” en Bolivia. La WACC en su Convocatoria a Proyectos (2024-2025) incluyó en sus líneas de apoyo el...

16 Nov 2025 El derecho a la no desinformación: Una propuesta desde Bolivia

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Erick R. Torrico Villanueva La desinformación representa un problema real en la vida diaria actual y un obstáculo creciente para el desempeño del régimen democrático. Contrarrestar ese fenómeno es urgente y necesario; hacerlo desde el enfoque de los derechos humanos es plenamente factible. La propuesta para...

16 Nov 2025 On the Screen (MD 2025/4)

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Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) 2025 At the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 4-12, 2025), the Ecumenical Jury, appointed by INTERFILM and SIGNIS, awarded its Prize to Rebuilding directed by Max Walker-Silverman (USA, 2025). Motivation: A quiet, divorced Colorado rancher who lost everything in a wildfire...

16 Nov 2025 Independent media, the WSIS+20 review process, and Public Digital Infrastructure

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Anna Oosterlinck Independent journalism is under attack. The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that 2024 has been the deadliest year for journalists in the past three decades. ARTICLE 19 reports that 27 countries experienced decline in media freedom in the past year alone; over the past...