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14 May 2012

Spain: Arts Also Blossom in the Global Spring

Written by Elena Arrontes · Translated by Marianna Breytman · Western Europe

The arts have also flourished with the 15M movement. To commemorate the 15M's first anniversary, the 12M--15M events, and to invite everyone to take to the streets again, the blog # Acampadasol has published a series of amazing posters that reveal many of the reasons behind the protests.

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Venezuela: Street Art on the Internet

Written by Laura Vidal · Translated by Marianna Breytman · Latin America

Artists and musicians broaden their audience when they come into contact with citizen media. Here we show some citizen videos of artists in the streets of Venezuela.

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Saudi Arabia: May 7 Marked as Saudi Liberalism Day

Written by Salah Almhamdi · Middle East & North Africa

On May 7 Saudi liberal activists gathered online to celebrate Saudi Liberalism Day, an initiative to acquire recognition and acceptance for liberal ideas.

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Spain: “Neighbor, Wake Up, Foreclosures at Your Doorstep!”

Written by Elena Arrontes · Translated by Elizabeth Rivera · Western Europe

As part of the profound socioeconomic crisis, home foreclosures and evictions are rampant in Spain. Author Elena Arrontes covered the eviction of a Bangladeshi family from its home in the neighborhood of Lavapiés, Madrid. Neighbors and other members of the community immediately acted in solidarity with the family.

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Jordan: Campaign Launched Against “Rape-Marriage” Law

Written by Ebtihal Mahadeen · Middle East & North Africa

In March of this year 16-year-old Moroccan Amina Filali committed suicide after she was forced to marry her rapist. Now Jordanians are speaking up about a 15-year-old rape victim who has been married off to the man convicted of raping her, whose death sentence has been dropped as a consequence.

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Global Voices Seeks New Japanese Editor

Written by Solana Larsen · East Asia

Would you like to work with us? We are seeking a part-time Editor to oversee our ongoing coverage of Japanese-language citizen media on Global Voices in English.

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Nigeria: BattaBox Bakes Stories Through Online Videos

Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike · Sub-Saharan Africa

BattaBox is everything Nigerian - music, film, street-life, news, comedy, cooking and much, much more...Nwachukwu Egbunike talks to Christian Purefoy about the evolving online video show.

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Egypt: How do the Presidential Candidates' Posters Compare?

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

About ten days remain before the presidential elections in Egypt. A few days ago we witnessed the first presidential debate in the country's history, but the candidates' posters will also play a big role in the final decision of the voters.

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Colombia: A New Home for Campus Party in 2013?

Written by Lully · Translated by Chellsy Alis Manning · Latin America

Paco Ragageles, co-founder of Campus Party, in his blog published the decision to consider an alternative venue for Campus Party Colombia following the decision of the mayor of Bogota to not endorse the event as had been done in the past. Netizens immediately reacted and even proposed a new venue for 2013.

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13 May 2012

Zambia: Citizen News Website Hacked

Written by Gershom Ndhlovu · Sub-Saharan Africa

On Wednesday, 9 May 2012, netizens who flock to various citizen-run news websites such as Zambian Watchdog and Tumfweko were met with “page not available” or messages to similar effect. Zambian Watchdog reported that its website was a target of a sustained attack allegedly by the PF government.

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Updates about TOPICS

14 May 2012

China

A video, showing a drunken foreigner beaten up by a number of passersby for sexually assaulting a woman in public, has been circulated widely on line. Ministry of Tofu translated some of the online comments.

• Oiwan Lam

Georgia

The Young Georgians posts video of this weekend's flash flood in Tbilisi, Georgia. Five people, including two children, are reported dead.

• Onnik Krikorian

13 May 2012

Egypt

Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the Wellcome Library and King’s College London Digital Humanities Department have recently launched the Wellcome Arabic Manuscript Cataloguing Partnership (WAMCP). The manuscripts collection comprises around 1000 manuscript books and fragments relating to the history of medicine. All content is licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 2.0).

• محمد عادل

Governance

According to official statistics,28.5 millions of Iranians are estimated to have access to Internet connection in 1154 cities of Iran. This figures says more than 2.1 millions of this Iranian users have ADSL connection and the rest are connected via dial-up. Iranian government has restricting rules for Internet connection of citizens and only academic and business users can have broadband connections more than 128 kbps.

• Hadi Nili

Singapore

Singapore's Health Promotion Board uses the What’s Eating Singapore? data visualizer to survey the five most popular foods in Singapore based on social media posts. It's updated every three days. This week's most popular food items are pizza, curry, and sushi

• Mong Palatino

Singapore

Furry Brown Dog tries to determine if Singapore's birth control policies in the 1970s are also responsible for the country's low crime rates.

• Mong Palatino

Sri Lanka

Ameena Hussein at Groundviews tries to analyze why there is a growing tendency among Sri Lankan Buddhists to embrace violence and hatred.

• Rezwan

Singapore

Syahidah Ismail provides an overview of various issues faced by Singapore women in the past half century. The author discussed some of the controversial population and migration policies adopted by the government in the past decades.

• Mong Palatino

Singapore

Several Singaporean groups will commemorate the 25th anniversary of a government crackdown of suspected destabilizers in Singapore. They are accused of being part of a ‘Marxist Conspiracy.' Human rights groups claim that more than 2,500 people have suffered detention without trial since the ruling party came to power in 1959.

• Mong Palatino

Comments on "TOPICS"

Russia: Crowdsourcing to Solve Local Urban Problems

Thanks Tony. I've fixed the article to make that clear.
I realise the number comes from the original article, but just to note that the 1600 reports on FixMyStreet are...
Great article. Good to know that crowdsourcing is really helpful for urban based peoples which they are facing so much...