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key insights

Lessons learned from successful public awareness campaigns

Here are #mediadev's key recommendations for launching and running public awareness campaigns in Africa. These insights come from analyzing eight successful campaigns and talking extensively to those involved.  

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Tips for running public awareness campaigns in Africa | pdf  

interview

'Companies concerned about loss of reputation'

Flyer Ranking Digital Rights (DW/A. Matschke)

The US nonprofit Ranking Digital Rights looks at tech companies’ disclosure of policies and practices affecting freedom of expression and privacy. Director Rebecca MacKinnon talks about these companies’ responsibility. 

What are digital rights?  

guest post

Privacy is not dead, but it’s going to cost you

A smartphone screen shows the icon of the messaging app Signal

These days it’s hard to disconnect from digital life, even temporarily. But Mozilla’s Cathleen Berger argues we should give more thought to how we can do that and control the personal data that companies are harvesting. 

Check-up for the Internet  

viability of investigative journalism

Raking muck and raising funds

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Today, investigative media face a double challenge: They need to maintain independence while securing financial sustainability. In a new research paper, DW Akademie's authors propose a model to identify areas of action. 

audience research

Impressive reach in Eritrea

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Radio Erena, an exile radio supported by Reporters Without Borders, has in the past few years broadcast independent information to Eritrea. But is this radio station actually heard by the people inside the country? 

new publication

Advancing projects with audience data

DW Akademie‘s new study summarizes the state of the art regarding audience research in media development. It tests innovative methods in three case studies, providing inspiration for research, monitoring, and evaluation. 

Interview: Connecting with audiences  

Audience Research in Media Development | pdf  

Digital Innovation Library

Innovative digital responses to crises and challenges

Karee Dam

From mapping drought crises to averting Internet shutdowns, digital project innovators offer tips to others aiming to develop digital projects of their own. 

Digital innovations from mapping war to visualizing water  

Illustration zu Meinungsfreiheit und Medienentwicklung

Media Development

Our Strategic Model

DW Akademie supports freedom of expression and access to information around the world. Based on our strategic model we take a comprehensive look at media systems and realize effective and sustainable projects.  

#mediadev quiz - the answers  

#mediadev

Research papers

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DW Akademie experts regularly publish research findings, discussion papers, or briefings related to media development. The publications are available here. 

Women into politics! Greater female participation in Cambodia  

Tips for creating public awareness campaigns for Africa  

Study: Audience Research in Media Development  

Internet Governance - Media freedom in a connected world  

Publication: How to support the media in conflict regions  

Study: Advancing Freedom of Expression in the digital age  

Research paper: Strands in media development  

Discussion paper: Measuring media viability  

Publication: Considering the Dark Side of the Media  

In the Service of the Public - Transforming state media  

Discussion Paper: Media and Information Literacy  

Content analysis - Measuring journalism quality  

Using media freedom indices in media development  

Guidebook: Analyzing media freedom indices  

More DW Akademie publications  

#mediadev topics

Media freedom • Innovation in media development • Social media •
Digital rights • Media viability • Top resources • Digital security • 
Interviews • Digital tech, the internet and society • Hate speech •  
Media and information literacy • Windhoek Declaration anniversary

#mediadev tools

Digital Innovation Library • Media Freedom Navigator •
#speakup Barometer • Toolbox for journalists • South2South Manifesto

About #mediadev

Insights, analysis and research around the topics of freedom of expression, media development and digital transformation. Join the global conversation. Use the #mediadev hashtag.

safety of journalists

Symbolbild Internet Spionage (picture-alliance/dpa/F. Gabbert)

Digital security resources

Links to online digital security tools, guides, training curriculums and research for media development organizations wanting to protect journalists and activists.  

resource

Social Media

Social media guidelines for radio stations

You want to know how to verify user generated content or need help handling hate speech? These guidelines set out policies to ensure radio stations use social media productively and avoid pitfalls. 

  • DW Akademie mediadev Marta Duran de Huerta (DW)

    The right to have access to information means to me...

    Marta Duran de Huerta, Mexico

    In countries like Mexico with high levels of violence, it's crucial to know what has happened to those who have disappeared or died. Information is the essence of any truth commission. A well informed society is much more able to deal with any situation. Well informed citizens cannot easily be betrayed, and access to information is the first step in the fight against impunity.

  • portrait of Nhlanhla Ngwenya

    The right to have access to information means to me...

    Nhlanhla Ngwenya, Zimbabwe

    Access to information is key to entrenching accountability and eliminating poverty. Internet development should not only be about connectivity but about access to useful content in as many languages as possible.

  • portrait of Tahmina Rahman

    The right to have access to information means to me...

    Tahmina Rahman, Bangladesh

    The right to seek, access and receive information is a fundamental human right. It is important because it helps people to know what is happening in their society and about the actions of those in power. One cannot question what one does not know. In an increasingly networked world, expression has more power than ever. We must do everything to ensure that this is not endangered in any way.

  • portrait of Aubrey Chikungwa

    The right to have access to information means to me...

    Aubrey Chikungwa, Malawi

    Access to information is a fundamental element of development. We cannot eradicate poverty without promoting access to information.

  • Suneel Malik, Zentrum für soziale Gerechtigkeit Pakistan (DW)

    The right to have access to information means to me...

    Suneel Malik, Pakistan

    The right to information means having access to data or information about public and private organizations receiving public funding.

  • Monus Kaynat, CPDI Pakistan (DW)

    The right to have access to information means to me...

    Monus Kaynat, Pakistan

    The right to information is a fundamental human right. It empowers me to know what is happening behind the closed doors of government bodies.


people using media

A human rights lawyer dependent on independent media

Cesar Canil reads on his smartphones

Meet a lawyer who grew up in a refugee camp after escaping the massacre of Mayan communities by the Guatemalan state. Today he trusts only independent media for information.   

Fortunate's mix of gossip and hard news

Fortunate Nagawa, Ugandische Studentin mit Smartphone und Computer (DW/A. Gitta)

Ugandan university student, Fortunate Nagawa, is a consummate media consumer who loves celebrity gossip, music and hard news.  

A tech-savvy, urban Internet user

Myanmar Lone Lone Kavan mit Zeitung (M. Maung )

The Internet and the media in Myanmar were once among the most restricted in the world. A young Myanmar gives his opinion of how the now flourishing media landscape could be better.   

Community radio is a voice for the poor

Guatemala Sandra Gómez

Find out how a woman who suffered domestic violence in Guatemala uses media to inform herself about her rights and share this information with others, as part of #mediadev's international series on people using media.  

Passing the time with radio and TV

Kawkab Qadri in her kitchen switching on the radio

Read about the daily routine of a Palestinian widow who spends much of her time listening to radio and watching TV. It's part of our #mediadev series on people consuming media around the world.  

Seydou and his enlightening radio

Seydou Ilboudo sits in a wooden chair and listens to the radio

Find out how radio helped a blinded stonemason become a farmer and why he loves radio so much, as part of a #mediadev series on how people around the world view and use media.  

"I like reading news on Facebook"

Khem Sreymom looks at her smartphone

While TV is the most popular media in Cambodia, Facebook is rapidly catching up. Read about why one Cambodian gets most of her news from Facebook in our latest #mediadev portrait of people around the world using media.  

A newspaper hawker's take on the media

Myanmar Zeitungsverkäufer in Rangun

A street newspaper seller in Myanmar gives his personal view of this country's flourishing newspaper scene, as part of a #mediadev series on what people around the world think of media.  

tutorials

Toolbox for journalists

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What is quality journalism in the digital age? Posts dedicated to the reporting skills needed by print, radio, TV and online journalists around the world. 

Toolbox for journalists

Evaluation

Assessing DW Akademie's long-term projects

Weltkarte (DW)

DW Akademie’s long-term projects financed by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) are subject to independent evaluation. Here you can find the executive summaries of the evaluation reports. 

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