This report examines how a global information society might look with mobile media devices at its hub. Mobile devices now reach the farthest corners of the world. By the end of 2011, about 5 billion mobile phones will be in service in a world with 7 billion people. The implications–for politics, for education, for economies...

This report discusses discuss the current regulatory environment and the windows of opportunity for democratic reform in the media sector in Egypt and Tunisia. The world has been riveted by events occurring throughout the Middle East and North Africa that have come to be known collectively as the “Arab Spring.” Popular protests have toppled dictatorships...

The rapid spread of digital-based communications and information networks is likely to have an effect on 21st-century wars, which increasingly center on internal conflict, disputed borders of new states, and separatist movements. The complex relationship between media and conflict is longstanding. Traditional mass media have been used to amplify and extend viewpoints and ideologies, to...

In the last two decades, independent media assistance has become a significant aspect of the development field, helping countries to make democratic transitions, spur economic growth, conduct public health campaigns, and improve government accountability. Efforts to spread a free press have resulted in the professional development of tens of thousands of journalists and the founding...