Digital disinformation in Africa: Hashtag activism and state propaganda
In an era of hashtag campaigns and online organising, politicians and corporations are spending billions to disrupt dialogue and...
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In an era of hashtag campaigns and online organising, politicians and corporations are spending billions to disrupt dialogue and...
The project will contribute to arresting democratic regression by identifying, documenting and analysing existing and newly emerging elements of digital authoritarianism and the practices of digital citizenship that work best to mitigate or overcome them.
African governments are spending over 1US$bn per year on digital surveillance technologies which are being used without adequate legal...
Governments in Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, and Zambia are collectively spending at least $1bn a year on digital surveillance...
A new open access book “Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression” explores African citizens’ use of...
Published by: Bloomsbury
Since the so-called Arab Spring, citizens of African countries have continued to use digital tools in creative ways to ensure that...
How is the digitalisation of social protection affecting workers’ rights and digital rights?
Digital deception is the new face of information warfare. Social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities alike, as...
IDS is recruiting up to three Fellows to join our research clusters. This includes two vacancies to join the Rural Futures cluster as...