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Africa: ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons

Global Voices Podcast: Brave New Year 2012

In this edition of the podcast we take a look back over the year 2011, consider the similarities and differences between mainstream and new media journalism, learn about an inspiring Rising Voices meeting in Bolivia to support a diverse blogosphere. We also set off on a two-wheeled journey around the Internet!

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Russia: Opposition Faces Online Communication Problems

Russia: Election and the “Other Side of the Panopticon” 7 December 2011
Global Voices Podcast: Technology that Empowers! 1 December 2011
Japan's IT Exodus: A Personal Perspective (Part 2) 5 November 2011
Japan’s IT Exodus: A Personal Perspective (Part 1) 30 October 2011
Pakistan: Bloggers Dismayed at Google Adsense Ban 25 October 2011

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9 February 2012

Macedonia: Problems With Transparent Online Reporting of Air Pollution in Skopje

Written by Filip Stojanovski · Eastern & Central Europe

The city-owned "Skopje Breathing" online system, which informed residents of air pollution levels, stopped functioning in early January 2011. Filip Stojanovski translates a local NGO's explanation of why this important tool is unlikely to be fixed.

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22 January 2012

Poland: Netizens Protest Government's Plan to Sign ACTA Next Week

Written by Katarzyna Odrozek · Eastern & Central Europe

With the world still talking about the aftermath of the SOPA/PIPA Blackout Day, Polish netizens are confronted with another backstabbing development in the fight for free Internet. Katarzyna Odrozek reports.

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16 December 2011

Vietnam: What’s New at Barcamp Saigon?

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

More than 550 people registered and participated in the fifth Barcamp Saigon last week in RMIT International University, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. The attendance surpassed the record number of participants in the last Barcamp Saigon which was held just five months ago.

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14 December 2011

USA: Has NASA Discovered a Life-Friendly Planet?

Written by Simon Maghakyan · North America

NASA has announced the Kepler Space Telescope discovery of Kepler-22b, a planet within the right distance of its star for potentially having a habitable temperature. Science bloggers have reacted to the news with analysis and theories of their own.

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Slovakia: The Most Expensive Apple Computers

Written by Tibor Blazko · Eastern & Central Europe

University of Economics in Bratislava (EUBA) has recently signed a contract to acquire electronics and software for its Faculty of National Economy for a total price of over 1.8 million euro. Many of the items are overpriced. Tibor Blazko reports.

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12 December 2011

Greece: TEDxAthens, The Art of Disruption

Written by Veroniki Krikoni · Western Europe

On Saturday 3 December, TEDxAthens 2011 took place in the Cultural Center of the Hellenic World; a 12 hour long, 23 speech marathon, it was organized and supported by 38 volunteers. This year's theme was 'The Art of Disruption'.

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Updates about Technology

8 February 2012

Italy

On the blog Presse-citron, Jean-Marie Le Ray wites about”Volunia” [fr], the new search engine in 12 languages invented by Professor Massimo Marchiori of the University of Padua (Italy) : “this is a new concept of navigation of our times I think a test, a laboratory of ideas , also with a prospective vision of the Semantic Web, which relies heavily on “voluntary and spontaneous” interaction with the user. In a sense, it is a participatory search engine trying to put the future in perspective in order to adapt the current search process better [fr]. “

• Abdoulaye Bah

3 February 2012

Japan

North Korea Tech blog wrote about two Japanese people who were indicted for exporting personal computers to North Korea, thereby violating the Japanese government’s trade sanctions.

• Lee Yoo Eun

28 January 2012

China

China Bubble Watch blogs about the introduction of Red-pad, an electronic device similar to i-pad but sold at a price (RMB9,999) twice as high as an Apple i-pad exclusively to Chinese government officials.

• Oiwan Lam

17 January 2012

South Korea

An activist organization, Public Eye Group nominated Samsung, South Korea's richest and most powerful conglomerate, for the People's Award 2012. The award is given to raise public awareness on corporation's decades of environmental pollution, trade union repression, corruption and tax flight.

• Lee Yoo Eun

13 January 2012

Russia

English Russia posts pictures taken before and after the 1986 Chernobyl accident from a village in the nuclear contaminated part of Belarus to show how little has changed as people live on as usual despite the radiation hazard.

• Vilhelm Konnander

11 January 2012

U.S.A.

Inventors, designers, entrepreneurs from developing countries are invited by the University of South Florida's Patel Center to submit ideas for the creation of a “Smart Pot” that can purify water easily and has a similar shape as a traditional jerrycan. Winning proposals will receive up to $8,000 plus the opportunity to compete for a grand prize of $100,000.

• Solana Larsen

Peru

José Henry Alanoca Laura, an Aymara translator for the open-sourced Sugar Learning Platform, has passed away. The Peruvian Sugar Labs community sends a message of condolence through the blog Somos Azúcar (”We are sugar”) [es].

• Silvia Viñas

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