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Social Media

20 years of YouTube: 8 key innovations that have helped the video platform achieve its success

Alex Connock 18 Feb 2025

#BizTrends2025: Special Effects Media’s Shaheed Rajab - Community management, from likes to connections

Social Media

#BizTrends2025: Special Effects Media’s Shaheed Rajab - Community management, from likes to connections

Shaheed Rajab 29 Jan 2025

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Social Media

#YearOnTikTok 2024: Celebrating African culture, connection and creativity

6 Dec 2024

SA Social Media Landscape Launch Webinar – 28 June 2024

Social Media

SA Social Media Landscape Launch Webinar – 28 June 2024

Issued by Ornico 25 Jun 2024

How African content creators can protect themselves from content piracy

Media

How African content creators can protect themselves from content piracy

Chola Makgamathe, Issued by MultiChoice 22 Sep 2023

Social Media

Meta urged to boost Africa content moderation as contractor quits

Nita Bhalla 25 Jan 2023

Cyber Law

India's proposed Data Protection Bill fosters state surveillance; fails to protect privacy of children

30 Dec 2022

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni attends a news conference following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Entebbe, Uganda 26 July 2022. Russian Foreign Ministry/Handout via Reuters

Media & Entertainment Law

Ugandan president signs law critics say will stifle free speech

Elias Biryabarema 14 Oct 2022

How companies can embed human rights in their organisations

Employee Wellness

How companies can embed human rights in their organisations

Issued by Trialogue 5 Apr 2022

Children urged to take full advantage of their digital rights

Internet

Children urged to take full advantage of their digital rights

30 Mar 2022

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Media

Are digital platforms eating (good) journalism's lunch?

Danette Breitenbach 4 Feb 2022

Judith Mugeni, co-founder, chief strategist and managing partner of Ganizani Consulting Services

Trends

#BizTrends2022: Sponsorships for Africa beyond the pandemic

Judith Mugeni 13 Jan 2022

Image source: Dmitriy Shpilko –

IP Law

Copyright and Performer's Protection Amendment Bills - update

Carla Collett and Cindy Leibowitz 6 Dec 2021

A woman works with a computer at the Technology trade show VivaTech in France, Paris, on 17 June 2021. Xose Bouzas / Hans Lucas
Source: Reuters

4th Industrial Revolution

Can artificial intelligence help close gender gaps at work?

Sonia Elks 18 Nov 2021

Gibs Media Leadership Think Tank launch - Social media, internet shutdowns, incitement and democracy

Media

Gibs Media Leadership Think Tank launch - Social media, internet shutdowns, incitement and democracy

Issued by Gordon Institute of Business Science 27 Sep 2021

People hold Hamas flags as Palestinians gather after performing the last Friday of Ramadan to protest over the possible eviction of several Palestinian families from homes on land claimed by Jewish settlers in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood, in Jerusalem's Old City, May 7, 2021. Reuters/Ammar Awad

Media

Instagram, Twitter blame glitches for deleting Palestinian posts

Maya Gebeily 11 May 2021

Kaspersky Innovation Hub seeks gamer startups

ICT

Kaspersky Innovation Hub seeks gamer startups

21 Apr 2020

Hamza Idris (left), an editor with the Daily Trust newspaper, sits with colleague Hussaini Garba Mohammed in their office in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, in February 2019. The office was raided in January by the military, who seized 24 computers. Credit: CPJ/Jonathan Rozen.

Media Freedom

Nigerian military targeted journalists' phones, computers with "forensic search" for sources

Jonathan Rozen 30 Oct 2019

Rachel Sibley delivering this presentation at the SingularityU South Africa 2019 Summit. Image supplied.

Research

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: Extending reality - Why, when and how to leverage VR and AR for impact

17 Oct 2019

Paula Hulley
Photographer: Rikki Hibbert

IAB Bookmarks Awards

#IABSummit19: 7 insights into the direct brand economy

Jessica Tennant 5 Jun 2019

Magdi Amin, investment partner, Omidyar Network

Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology

Protecting the identity of Africans in a common digital market

Magdi Amin 26 Apr 2019

Facebook marks Safer Internet Day, partnering 20+ African NGOs

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Facebook marks Safer Internet Day, partnering 20+ African NGOs

5 Feb 2019

Gabonese soldiers stand in front of the headquarters of the national broadcaster in Libreville on January 7, 2019, after a failed coup. Gabon shut down the internet and broadcasting services following the coup attempt. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Steve Jordan.

Media Freedom

Gabon internet blackout after coup attempt

11 Jan 2019

Late voters check a list in a school in Kinshasa on December 30, during Democratic Republic of Congo's general elections. Authorities have cut internet access and blocked the signals to at least two news broadcasters while the results are counted. Credit: CPJ: AFP/Luis Tato.

Media Freedom

DRC authorities cut internet and broadcast signals after election

8 Jan 2019

The age of Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs): The ins and outs from SA's first commercial network

Streaming

The age of Multi-Channel Networks (MCNs): The ins and outs from SA's first commercial network

Danilo Acquisto 17 Apr 2018

Why release of two journalists in Ethiopia does not signal end to press crackdown

Media

Why release of two journalists in Ethiopia does not signal end to press crackdown

Muthoki Mumo and Jonathan Rozen 26 Jan 2018

Booby-trapped messaging apps used for spying

Mobile & Apps

Booby-trapped messaging apps used for spying

22 Jan 2018

Uproar over internet shutdowns

Digital

Uproar over internet shutdowns

Tonderayi Mukeredzi 26 Sep 2017

Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa kicks off this week

Internet

Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa kicks off this week

26 Sep 2017

Star India bags IPL media rights for $2.55bn

TV

Star India bags IPL media rights for $2.55bn

6 Sep 2017

Digital

Discover Digital's DEOD awarded near-live short-form digital rights for ICC events

7 Jun 2017

Internet shutdown lifted in Cameroon

Internet

Internet shutdown lifted in Cameroon

24 Apr 2017

Microsoft victory in overseas data privacy case stands

Cyber Law

Microsoft victory in overseas data privacy case stands

27 Jan 2017

Digital

Discover Digital rolls out African video on demand infrastructure

1 Dec 2016

Mobile

Stop gentrifying our internet #DataMustFall

Mia Arderne, Issued by Oxbridge Academy 6 Oct 2016

Social Media

Social media persecution in Tanzania

28 Sep 2016

Mobile will be the TV of the future

Mobile

Mobile will be the TV of the future

23 Sep 2016

AFEX members call for internet shutdowns in Africa to stop

Media

AFEX members call for internet shutdowns in Africa to stop

15 Sep 2016

Rockefeller 2016 Global Social Innovation Fellows announced

ESG & Sustainability

Rockefeller 2016 Global Social Innovation Fellows announced

24 May 2016

Twitter restores access to politicians' deleted tweets

Social Media

Twitter restores access to politicians' deleted tweets

5 Jan 2016

Nissan becomes a global ICC sponsor through 2023

Automotive

Nissan becomes a global ICC sponsor through 2023

14 Oct 2015

Copyright Amendment Bill - a diamond in the rough

Corporate & Commercial Law

Copyright Amendment Bill - a diamond in the rough

Cobus Jooste 26 Aug 2015

Execution of Copyright Amendment Bill 'abysmal'

Corporate & Commercial Law

Execution of Copyright Amendment Bill 'abysmal'

Prof Owen Dean 11 Aug 2015

Anger as German 'digital rights' blog probed for treason

Media Freedom

Anger as German 'digital rights' blog probed for treason

3 Aug 2015

Pakistan cyber bill threatens free speech, privacy: rights groups

Media Freedom

Pakistan cyber bill threatens free speech, privacy: rights groups

21 Apr 2015

Carey van Vlaanderen

Cybersecurity

Security lessons learned from Sony's most notorious hack

Carey van Vlaanderen 10 Feb 2015

Availability of low-cost smartphones will increase in 2015 - A4AI

Mobile

Availability of low-cost smartphones will increase in 2015 - A4AI

19 Jan 2015

Video on Demand to drive requirement for carrier neutral POPs in Africa

Telecoms & Networks

Video on Demand to drive requirement for carrier neutral POPs in Africa

Eckart Zollner 5 Jan 2015

Steve Jobs gives posthumous testimony in Apple trial

Mobile

Steve Jobs gives posthumous testimony in Apple trial

8 Dec 2014