Sub-studies and background resources
The Internet space is characterized by creativity, innovation as well as rapid and continuous evolution. UNESCO continues to be actively involved in conducting research that seeks to track, understand and support the development of, appropriate responses to the new and emerging trends. To ensure that the study and preparation of future options is informed by the latest thinking and research UNESCO has commissioned several new studies.
Completed studies
- Freedom of information: a comparative legal survey; 2nd edition
- Media: conflict prevention and reconstruction
- Media development indicators: a framework for assessing media development
- Global survey on Internet privacy and freedom of expression
- Freedom of connection, freedom of expression: the changing legal and regulatory ecology shaping the Internet
- World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development
- Free and Open Source Software, Open Data, and Open Standards in the Caribbean: Situation Review and Recommendations
- Towards inclusive knowledge societies: a review of UNESCO's action in implementing the WSIS outcomes
- Renewing the Knowledge Societies Vision: Towards Knowledge Societies for Peace and Sustainable Development
- Global media and information literacy assessment framework: country readiness and competencies
- Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies: A Survey
- Model Policy for Inclusive ICTs in Education for Persons with Disabilities
- EURid-UNESCO world report on IDN deplyment 2013
- UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning OER Policy Guidelines to be launched at the UNESCO General Conference
- UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers
- UNESCO global report: opening new avenues for empowerment: ICTs to access information and knowledge for persons with disabilities
- Twelve years of measuring linguistic diversity in the Internet: balance and perspectives
Ongoing studies
- Privacy and journalists’ sources
- Licensing online free expression
- Understanding and mitigating hate speech
- Online Safety
- Internet Jurisdiction
- Internet Intermediaries' role in fostering online freedom of expression
- Digital safety of journalists and media actors
- A handbook of global information ethics case studies
- An information ethics primer for policy makers
- Guidelines on the inclusion of students with disabilities in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) using open solutions”
- Free and Open Source Software, Open Data and Open Standards in West Africa: Situation review and recommendations
- Free and Open Source Software, Open Data and Open Standards in the Arab States: Situation review and recommendations
- Study on the Internet supporting local content development
- Learning by Coding: Global case of youth-developed Apps for sustainable development
- Internet Governance Glossary (English / Arabic)
- IFAP – MOST Study: How are ICT mediated contacts impacting cohesion, collaboration and social transformation?