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Month: June 2008

  • GHQ to Islamabad

    Published in The Nation by M. Ashgar Khan The shifting of the Army’s General Headquarters from Rawalpindi to Islamabad has been planned for some time and was given a fresh impetus during 2007. We have not been told what the total financial burden of this move will be but the cost of land alone at…

  • GVSummit08: Day 2 Session 4: Translation and the Multilingual Web

    MODERATOR: Portnoy. SPEAKERS: Chris Salzberg (Canada/Japan), Paula Góes (Brazil), Rezwan (Bangladesh), Claire Ulrich (France) In the short history of global online communication, numerous thinkers have fashioned a vision of the Internet as a barrier-free forum for the inter-national and inter-cultural transmission of knowledge, ideas, and information. In practice, however, online communities are still divided by…

  • GVSession08: Day 2 Session 3: When Biases Meet Biases

    MODERATOR: Xiao Qiang. Speakers: Isaac Mao(Entrepreneur and Researcher, China), Rebecca MacKinnon (University of Hong Kong and Global Voies), John Kennedy (Chinese Language Editor, Global Voices) The March 10 protests in Lhasa on the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising against Beijing rule immediately won the sympathy and support of Western media outlets, bloggers, and human…

  • GVSummit08: Day 2 Session 2: The Wired Electorate in Emerging Democracies

    MODERATOR: Solana Larsen. SPEAKERS: Daudi Were (Kenya), Onnik Krikorian (Armenia), Hamid Tehrani (Iran), Luis Carlos Díaz (Venezuela) The rise of blogging, social networking and micro-blogging services like Facebook and Twitter, video- and photo-sharing sites like YouTube and Flickr, and the spread of mobile technology ave given ordinary citizens the means, at least potentially, to participate…

  • GVSummit08: Day 2 Session 1: Web 2.0 Goes WorldWide

    MODERATOR: Lova Rakotomalala. SPEAKERS: Catalina Restrepo (HiperBarrio, Colombia), Collins Dennis Oduor (REPACTED, Kenya), Cristina Quisbert (Voces Bolivianas, Bolivia), Mialy Andriamananjara (FOKO, Madagascar) The participatory web has, so far, been limited to the participation of select communities. Thanks to the steady proliferation of broadband connectivity and digital literacy campaigns throughout the developing world, however, some of…

  • GVSummit08: Day 1 Wrap up

    A good roundup by Rebecca MacKinnon at the end of the first day of Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008. Budapest, June 27, 2008

  • GVSummit08: Day 1 Session 5: NGO’s and on-the ground activists: Defending the Voices

    MODERATOR: Xiao Qiang. SPEAKERS: Elijah Zarwan (Human Rights Watch), Clothilde Le Coz (Bureau Internet et Libertés, Reporters Without Borders), Rebecca MacKinnon (Global Voices & University of Hong Kong), Nasser Weddady (Hands Across the Mideast Support Alliance), Stephanie Hankey (Tactical Tech), Antony Loewenstein (Amnesty International Australia’s campaign Uncensor) How can NGOs seeking to advance freedom of…

  • GVSummit08: Day 1 Session 4: Frontline Activists meet the Academy: Tools and Knowledge

    MODERATOR: Ethan Zuckeman. SPEAKERS: Roger Dingledine (Tor), Nart Villeneuve (Citizen Lab), Isaac Mao (Digital Nomads project, China), Robert Guerra (Privaterra, Cuba), Danny O’Brien (Electronic Frontier Foundation) The tools to circumvent web filtering and other methods of online censorship exist, but they don’t always reach the people who need them as easily as they could. How…

  • GVSummit08: Day 1 Session 3: Living with Censorship

    MODERATOR: Awab Alvi SPEAKERS: Helmi Noman (Researcher – Middle East & North Africa), Razan (Free Tariq, Syria), CJ Hinke (Freedom Against Censorship, Thailand), Andrew Heavens (Sudan), Rezwan (Bangladesh), John Kennedy (China) Dealing with blocked access to popular websites and unclear restrictions about what can and cannot be published online has become an ordinary fact of…

  • GVSummit08: Day 1 Session 2: Citizen Media and Online Free Speech

    MODERATOR: Mary Joyce. SPEAKERS: Ory Okolloh (Kenyan Blogger), Wael Abbas (MisrDigital, Egypt), Mehdi Mohseni (jomhour.org, Iran), Amine (digiactive.org, Morocco), Oiwan Lam (Global Voices, Hong Kong), Au Wai Pang (Singapore) Citizen media allow for more active and open participation in political processes, but threats of censorship and oppression discourage citizens from expressing their own opinions. This…

  • GVSummit08: Day 1 Session 1: Toward a Global anti-censorship network

    MODERATOR: Helmi Noman.SPEAKERS: Andrey Abozau, (Belarusian activist from LuNet), Chris Salzberg (Global Voices, Japan), Alaa Abdel Fatah (Egyptian Blogger), Ethan Zuckerman (Global Voices), Awab Alvi (Don’t Block The Blog, Pakistan) Internet censorship by governments around the world has threatened both freedom of expression and free access to information. In response, free speech activists are leading…

  • GlobalVoices Advocacy Summit ’08

    I share with you the Global Voices Advocacy Summit help today on 26th June 2008 at Budapest, Hungary. I apologize for posting this live blog late after the event, it was more because I arrived in Budapest at noon after a 13-hour journey, and screeched into the meeting room just before lunch. The advocacy session…

  • GlobalVoices Summit ’08 Budapest, Hungary

    I am scheduled to depart for Budapest, Hungary in a few hours to attend the Global Voices Summit 08 and also be a part of the Advocacy session a day before. In the next few days, I hope to blog extensively about the Global Voices Summit and then later maybe share my travel experience during…

  • Shedding Crocodile Tears over Inflation

    The News Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by Aqil Sajjad The PPP and its supporters argue that the “common man” cares more about inflation than the restoration of the judiciary. They insist that forcing the present government’s hand on the judges’ issue would create political instability, threaten the democratic process and make it difficult for the…

  • The ‘American’ Empire Strikes Back

    Since the fateful day in New York on September 11th 2001 the world did change for many, as since the last seven years it seems the United States has obtained an unrestricted license to invade and conquer any sovereign nation of the world, no questions asked and no one to stop them. It started from…