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Islamic council of Victoria. Despite the apparent severity of rising digital Islamophobia, there has been relatively little research into its prevalence and causes. This report aims to change that. Harnessing cutting-edge machine learning techniques to automatically identify hateful content, this investigation reveals that there were at least 3,759,180 Islamophobic posts made on Twitter between 28 August 2019 and 27 August 2021. Even more concerning, however, is the discovery that only a mere 14.83% of anti-Muslim tweets end up being removed. The researchers conclude from these findings that radical changes are necessary to both Twitter’s moderation policies and online safety laws, without which it is all the more likely that the problem of digital Islamophobia will grow to a point of intractability.
Children spend half their free time online. The digital world is where they access news and information, where they play games, develop a sense of their own identity, and where they keep in touch with…
Background: The development of COVID-19 vaccines has been crucial in fighting the pandemic. However, misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines is spread on social media platforms at a rate that has made the World Health Organization coin the phrase infodemic. False claims about adverse vaccine side effects, such as vaccines being the cause of autism, were already considered a threat to global health before the outbreak of
In acknowledging the importance of the digital domain for an equal growth in Europe, since 2019 the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) has been advocating for including digital cohesion as part of the traditional concept of cohesion, which currently encompasses the economic, social and territorial dimensions. Digital cohesion can be described as the state achieved through the closing of the digital divide and the attainment of even participation of all European citizens in the benefits of digital transformation. Against this backdrop, the present study aims to investigate the potential evolution of digital cohesion in the future with a combination of approaches used in the foresight studies: horizon scanning, megatrends analysis, scenarios building, visioning and backcasting. The study is structured in four parts preceded by an introduction. In the introduction the definitions of digital cohesion and digital divide are provided, illustrating how to measure digital cohesion at the regional level. Also, the main EU policy developments against the digital divide are presented.
Citizens’ perceptions of the European Union and Parliament are influenced by what they see, hear and read in various media. This Flash Eurobarometer is designed to present a picture of EU citizens’ media use and media habits, looking at both traditional media and online media. Ipsos European Public Affairs interviewed a representative sample of EU citizens, aged 15 years and over, in each of the 27 Member States of the European Union. Between 26 April and 11 May 2022, 52 347 interviews were completed via computer-assisted web interviewing (CAWI), using Ipsos online panels and their partner network.
The new EU digital rulebook sets out unprecedented standards on the accountability of online companies, within an open and competitive digital market.
The Rewind archive contains tens of thousands of individual clips from the BBC's news and current affairs output from across the UK, including both regional and national programmes, from the late 1940s to 2021. Nationwide, 24 Hours, Tonight, Midweek, Everyman, Monitor, Man Alive, Newsnight, Countryfile and The One Show are covered . Short clips are searchable and arranged by content.
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G21/149/66/PDF/G2114966.pdf As a follow-up to his report on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of
association in the digital era, submitted to the Human Rights Council at its forty first
session (A/HRC/41/41), the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful
assembly and of association, Clément N. Voule, presents to the Human Rights Council a
study of recent trends and the impact of Internet shutdowns in relation to peaceful protests,
and makes recommendations to address this global phenomenon
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation has released a new paper which summarises research they initiated into harmful sexual behaviour. The paper discusses technology-assisted harmful sexual behaviour (TA-HSB) and evaluates their ROSA project which was set up to provide support to help combat TA-HSB. Findings include: 38% of young people referred to the ROSA project self-produced sexual images of themselves or others and 28% were exploited solely online. The paper notes the positive short-term impacts of the project and recommends wider access to training and support.
The DPA was established in 2021 by the Learning Foundation, Currys plc and the Institute of Engineering and Technology. It aims to explore the nature and extent of digital poverty in the uk . This includes coverage of social political and structural constraint on lack of access to technology. This encompasses lack of money, lack of equipment and lack of skills
The British Library has 36,253 newspaper titles from 193 countries and territories, representing 88 languages. How do we know this? Because we’ve been analysing the data. Now we’re making that data freely available for anyone to view, download, edit and share. Newspapers inside the British Library's National Newspaper Buildin
Online Nation is an annual report that looks at what people are doing online, how they are served by online content providers and platforms, and their attitudes to and experiences of using the internet.
These two briefings that set out the policy implications of research were undertaken to assess the drivers of digital poverty among rural communities in the North West of England, with recommendation set out both for regional and national policy makers.
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MAGIC (Muslim women and communities Against Gender Islamophobia in society) is a project devised to prevent gender Islamophobia in Spain and in Belgium, in particular in media outlets, and to draw lessons useful for other European countries. The project is carried out by a consortium led by the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed) and formed by the Media Diversity Institute Global, the Collectif contre l’Islamophobie en Belgique and the Fundación Al Fanar para el Conocimiento Árabe. The first dispatches that are based on extensive media monitoring of Belgian and Spanish media from May 2021 until September 2021 have now been published. Media Diversity Institute is responsible for monitoring Belgian newspapers (Le Soir, La Dernière Heure, and Het Laatste Nieuws) and Fundación Al Fanar is responsible for monitoring three Spanish media (El País, La Razón, and ABC).
Today, McAfee Corp., a global leader in online protection, released “Cyberbullying in Plain Sight” a global report which surveyed 11,687 parents and their children in ten countries to fully understand the extent of cyberbullying children face and highlight gaps in how parents manage these experiences.
This technical report summarizes the statistical audit of the Mobile Connectivity Index (MCI). The MCI is thoroughly considered by experts in the GSM Association (GSMA), its methodology is coherent and follows well the OECD-JRC (2008) recommendations for constructors of composite indicators. Further refinement of the MCI indicator set, which has been already on the agenda of the GSMA and the planned replacement of proxies by better indicators can later surely help improve the statistical qualities of the MCI, once data availability allows it. The unification of the normalisation procedure for all indicators may enhance the integrity of the index. The overall implications of the uncertainty analysis are that the uncertainty in the rankings is manageable, and allows meaningful conclusions to be drawn from the index. As recommended frequently by the JRC team in its statistical audits, it would be worthwhile to publish confidence intervals alongside the index scores and rankings in case of the MCI.
Data and research on internet including broadband, telecom, security, privacy, ICTs, openness, Internet economy, e-commerce, consumer policy and e-government., The OECD Going Digital Measurement Roadmap is an important tool to align countries’ priority areas for measuring digital transformation using common methodologies and approaches. It was developed in partnership with all relevant OECD statistical bodies in 2019 and amended in 2022. The Roadmap identifies ten actions to enhance the capacity of countries to monitor digital transformation and its impacts. The Roadmap reflects a recognition that national statistical systems need to adapt and expand to adequately reflect the digitalisation of our economies and societies, including from a gender perspective. It also highlights the need for new, complementary data infrastructures capable of monitoring digital activities and data flows on a timely basis wherever they happen.
Annual Analysis of 360 degree safe self review data covering schools and colleges in England Prepared By Professor Andy Phippen, Bournemouth University May 2022
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has launched a new data platform featuring some 200 statistical indicators on digital connectivity, trust, markets, governance, sustainability, and affordability. The ITU DataHub offers an intuitive, mobile-friendly interface complete with country and regional profiles and data tables, allowing users to quickly find, view, compare, and download statistics on all aspects of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Intended to support evidence-based policy- and decision-making, the new platform will help ITU Member States, industry players and other stakeholders identify gaps, priorities, and opportunities in the accelerating global digital transformation. It will also help to assess the effectiveness of past and ongoing policy interventions to close the digital gap, with 2.9 billion people worldwide still offline.
Our plans for putting online safety laws into practice, and what we expect from tech firms, as the countdown to a safer life online continues.
Governments across the world have powerful digital tools to control and repress their populations. The EU should treat this as an urgent security and political concern.
Revealing Reality has released a report, supported by the PSHE Association, which looks at sexting. The report highlights the extent of the issue and the unequal way it affects young people depending on their gender, socioeconomic circumstances and self-perception. Findings from a survey of 5,197 14-18-year-olds include: 61% of girls have been asked to share a nude image compared with 31% of boys; and nearly two thirds of girls from a disadvantaged background had been asked to send a nude image, compared with half of the girls from non-disadvantaged backgrounds
This extensive report looks at what the latest trends in online safety have been seen over the past year for schools in England
Online Nation is an annual report that looks at what people are doing online, how they are served by online content providers and platforms, and their attitudes to and experiences of using the internet.
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