Featured resources
Below you can find a curated selection of key resources from the entire resource centre. We update this page regularly to feature resources we believe are most relevant to the community.
Established in April 2019 and officially launched in November 2019, the Dynamic Coalition on the Sustainability of Journalism and News Media (DC-Sustainability) is an open, multi-stakeholder initiative formally operating within the U.N. Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
It is meant to be a hub for the journalism, news media, press freedom, journalism support, and media development sectors to engage with important Internet governance and digital policy matters.
For more information, see our official charter (ratified on 27 November 2019).
To join, simply sign up to the mailing list or email us.
On 5 November 2020, the DC released our inaugural annual report.
GFMD, the International Civil Society Organization on the Safety of Journalists Coalition (ICSO SoJ Coalition), and numerous GFMD members, partners, and affiliate networks launched an emergency appeal for journalism and media support in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
The statement is a call to action to governments; journalism and media development donors and funders; journalism and media organisations; technology, telecommunication companies, and Internet intermediaries; advertisers, and all those who rely on journalism and news media to stay informed in this unprecedentedly challenging time. You can read the statement here.
The Geneva Digital Watch newsletter is a monthly newsletter, published by the Geneva Internet Platform and DiploFoundation, as part of the GIP Digital Watch initiative, that means to be a one-stop shop for updates and developments in the Internet governance and policy ecosystem.
It includes a round-up of developments for each month, interviews with prominent Internet governance experts, features and articles on various digital policy areas, and a just-for-fun section. The newsletter complements the GIP Digital Watch observatory and the monthly GIP briefings on Internet governance. Sign up for the monthly newsletter here.
This issue paper is now a go-to document to examine the intersections between media development and Internet governance. Written on behalf of the Working Group on Media Development and Internet Governance, this document formulates a clear and concise agenda by outlining key issues relevant to the journalism support and media development community vis-à-vis Internet policy-making, development, and regulation, as well as providing recommendations for common priority areas of engagement.
The document can be accessed here.
This how-to guide provides many links and resources in order to help anyone get more involved in Internet governance at the local, national, regional, and international levels.
Center for International Media Assistance - CORINNE CATH, NIELS TEN OEVER & DANIEL O'MALEY
This report makes the case to the journalism support and media development community that they can, and must, engage in the decision-making bodies that are shaping Internet governance to ensure that the Internet — and the growing media sphere it sustains — remains open, pluralistic, and democratic. It includes an examination of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), ICANN, IEEE, ITU, and IETF.
Written by GFMD, this post was written for the Global Network Initiative (GNI) blog ahead of World Press Freedom Day 2020.
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