Policy should be grounded on values. Key foundational documents include:
Outcome document of the conference on Information and Communication Rights in Africa, 31st May – 02 June 2023
Lusaka Declaration, 2nd African Media Convention, 2023
The Windhoek +30 Declaration (2021)
The Declaration of Principles on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa (updated 2019)
2019 – Addis Ababa Declaration on “Journalism and Elections in Times of Disinformation
African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms (2015)
2018 – Accra Declaration on “Keeping Power in Check: Media, Justice and the Rule of Law”
2012 – Carthage Declaration on “New Voices: Media Freedom Helping to Transform Societies”
2008 – Maputo Declaration on “Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and Empowerment of People”
2001 – African Charter on Broadcasting
The Windhoek Declaration (1991)
“Windhoek prompted the evolution of African standards appropriate to the ideal of journalism.”
Guy Berger, UNESCO director, 2021
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Selection of personal outputs relevant to policy development and analysis:
Submission to UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Opinion “Freedom of Opinion and Expression and Sustainable Development – Why Voice Matters” (2023)
Comments on “Guidance for regulating digital platforms: a multistakeholder approach Draft 1.1” – a response to UNESCO call for contributions to their draft Guidance document for debate at their global conference, Paris 21-23 February 2023. (2023)
I was involved in UNESCO’s: “Journalism is a public good: World trends in freedom of expression and media development; Global report 2021/2022”
Overview to Tracing the Footprints of the Windhoek Declaration and Charting the Windhoek +30 Declaration. (2022)
Foreword to book: Disinformation and the Global South
How UNESCO’s ROAM can reinvigorate Internet governance. Chapter in: Towards a Global Framework for CyberPeace and Digital Cooperation: An Agenda for the 2020s. Kleinwachter, W; Ketteman, M.C; Senges, M; and Mosene, K. (eds). Berlin: Internet Governance Forum. (2019)
Theorising African communications: The bad news signalled by broadcast digital migration policy (2012)
Media in Africa: 20 years after the Windhoek Declaration on Press Freedom (2011).
Problematizing ‘media development’ as a bandwagon gets rolling (2011)
Media in the policy loop (2007)
South Africa – a brief policy history – powerpoint for a post-graduate class at Rhodes University (2006)
Absent voices, missed opportunities. Media silence on ICT policy issues in six African countries. (2005) and summary powerpoint
Public opinion and the sometimes triangle of media-government-civil society (2005)
Ten Point Guide to Policy Design (powerpoint) (2004)
Media’s impact on public policy: implications for civil society (2003)