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China: In Bo Xilai Saga, Did Social Media Challenge Government?

Political struggle, murder, corruption, espionage and diplomatic conflict - the downfall of Bo Xilai from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) elite ranks has turned out to be a multi-faceted story. It is also a good example of the disruptive role that social media plays in today’s China.

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Russia: Ustream.tv Attacked Over Russian Blogger

On May 9, unknown parties launched a DDoS attack on the live feed website Ustream.tv. The attack was carried out from thousands of unique IPs based in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Iran, and was centered on one particular user, reggamortis1, who for the past four days has been covering opposition rallies and protests in Moscow.

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Best of the Blogs 2012: Winners Announced

After a month of voting and jury discussions, the awards for this year's Best of the Blogs - the BOBs - have been decided. In addition to winners decided by user vote, a jury of bloggers, media experts and activists have curated the best blogs, campaigns and media projects in six multilingual categories.

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Cuba: National Meeting of Bloggers Ends in Controversy 5 May 2012
A Global Voices Guide to re:publica Berlin 2012 30 April 2012
Nigeria: Nigerian Bloggers and Tweeps #SavedOke 18 April 2012
Colombia: Approval of “Lleras Law 2.0″ Ignites Netizens' Indignation 15 April 2012
Global Voices Podcast: The Good and Bad of Online Campaigns 6 April 2012

Latest stories about Technology & Internet

15 May 2012

Malawi: Kondwani Munthali: Malawi's Blogger of the Year

Written by Victor Kaonga · Sub-Saharan Africa

Victor Kaonga interviews Kondwani Munthali who made history this month by becoming the first blogger to be awarded Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Blogging Award of the year in Malawi. Munthali has been blogging since 2007.

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Kyrgyzstan: Can a Blogger be the Fourth Branch of Government?

Written by Chris Rickleton · Central Asia & Caucasus

Ilya Karimdjanov is a pest. Armed with a camera, a question and the most popular blog on Kyrgyzstan's most popular blogging platform, Kloop.kg, he is a one-man citizen media machine,...

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Russia: Duma Deputy Wants Criminal Liability for Extremist Tweets

Written by Kevin Rothrock · Eastern & Central Europe

Yesterday, on May 14, Aleksandr Khinshtein, a Duma deputy and member of United Russia, wrote a letter to Yuri Chaika, the Prosecutor General of Russia. In that letter, Khinshtein noted emerging extremist trends on Twitter and Facebook, and called on the state to prosecute users who advocate violence and other illegal acts.

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Russia: Website Appears Publishing Civil Servants' Incomes

Written by Teplitsa · Translated by Siân Sinnott · Eastern & Central Europe

The project "Public Profit" was established so that anyone interested could access information about the salaries of civil servants and state deputies. The information is compiled using public records and disclosed in accordance with Russian law. The published data are often surprising.

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14 May 2012

India: Entertainment Industry Seeks Court Ban on Torrents and Vimeo

Written by Aparna Ray · South Asia

For more than a week now, some ISPs across parts of India have been quietly blocking access to the popular video sharing site Vimeo as well as various torrent sites such as The Pirate Bay, KickAssTorrents, BitSnoop etc. Netizens react.

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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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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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11 May 2012

Robert F. Kennedy Award Will Recognize Social Media Journalism

Written by Bernardo Parrella · Middle East & North Africa, Western Europe

One of the foremost international human rights organizations, the Robert F. Kennedy Center, is calling for nominations to a new Journalism Award on International Photography and International Social Media hosted by their European office in Florence, Italy.

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Kenya: Mark Kaigwa to Global Voices: “The East is Coming to Africa.”

Written by Suzanne Lehn · Sub-Saharan Africa

At the 2012 edition of the Berlin re:publica conference, which took place from 2-4 May., Kenyan blogger and entrepreneur Mark Kaigwa was a featured speaker at a session entitled "Silicon Savanna, how African technologies are changing the world". Global Voices took this opportunity to catch up with Mark and discuss his positive outlook about Africa's future.

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Updates about Technology & Internet

16 May 2012

Russia

In the final segment of the report [ru] on the May 6 protest in Moscow, which ended in clashes with riot police, the Russian state-owned Channel 1 mentioned, among other things, a Spanish draft law [en] criminalizing online organization of public protests, as an example of the “much tougher” treatment of protesters by the “colleagues” of the Russian law enforcement officials “in the countries with the so-called established democracy.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Kenya

Bunge la Mwananchi is an online platform for amplifying grassroots people’s power to decide on their politics and economics so as to improve their social conditions in Kenya.

• Ndesanjo Macha

Vietnam

Chip 2.0 writes about the slow development of e-commerce in Vietnam

• Mong Palatino

15 May 2012

Cuba

Havana Times reports that dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia was released by authorities late last week “after being held for more than 24 hours without his whereabouts being made known.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

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

Farsi

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

11 May 2012

Nicaragua

Carlos R. Fonseca [es] blogs about the use of mobile devices in Nicaragua. He looks at the challenges Nicaraguan media outlets face in creating mobile applications and mobile versions of their sites due to a lack of information on how Nicaraguans use mobile devices.

• Silvia Viñas

9 May 2012

Cuba

“Radio Marti last week published and broadcast an editorial, ‘The Cardinal’s limits,' that asserted that Cardinal Ortega is involved in ‘political collusion' (contubernio) with the Cuban government…”: The Cuban Triangle suggests that Radio Marti also has its limits.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Cuba

A member of the Ladies in White has been charged with “disobedience” and could face prison time for marching with the dissident group; bloggers hope to raise awareness of the case.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Cote d'Ivoire

Honoré Kouassi wrote [fr] on the webpage of L'intelligent d'Abidjan: “African countries, particularly those of Sub-Saharan African, are not shielded from the financial crime that has developed over the past ten years in various forms. This crime is a danger, not only for the economic and financial system, but for political and social stability in the states as well.”

• Abdoulaye Bah

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