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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 rights [...]
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 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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuBpUFC2MsY
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 expression most [...]
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 life for [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Reached Hyderabad
The carvan from Karachi has reached Hyderabad Toll Plaza at around 3:00PM and was greeted by a reception by the local PML-N leadership
RIP - KMB Going Down
Well its not news to anyone who regularly follows Karachi Metroblog but at this moment all of our current batch of authors are effectively sidelined and trashed. Sean the co-founder from Metrblogging wrote a post after he disabled all authors from the system where he states that the ongoing bickering and fighting amongst the [...]
Blog on the Move >> UPDATE: We have successfully Moved
UPDATE: We have finally moved over to the new host, I hope things are a ‘bit’ faster
Since the past few days I have been having nightmares with my host (dreamhost) either due to a fault in my system or their lackluster response to attending my frantic cries for help. Yesterday I finally pulled [...]
WiredPakistan.com Forum Hacked
It seems that WiredPakistan.com has remained in the spotlight this February. It was barely a month back on Feb 5th that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blocked this website for no apparent reason, when Khalid Omar probed the PTA extensively they were slow to respond but finally after two weeks of pestering unblocked the website without [...]
Teeth Maestro on Breakfast with Dawn
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6323335539522499746
Pakistani Scientist / Blogger in Nobel team
Just a few days back The Nobel Foundation announced its 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and it was doubly shared between Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al-Gore. What has made the headlines all over the globe was Al-Gore’s efforts to make a difference on the Climate Change, but little was heard about the [...]
Western Union for Adsense in Pakistan
Google Adsense has finally finalized the work for allowing Google Adsense publishers to receive their check via Western Union Quick Cash. This option is available to only individuals based in Pakistan, China, Malaysia, Philippines and five other countries, I assume these were those sore spots where publishers were facing a genuine problem in receiving [...]
