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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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7 December 2011

Russia: Election and the “Other Side of the Panopticon”

Written by Gregory Asmolov · Eastern & Central Europe

The protests of recent days in Moscow were triggered by the common feeling of many Russians that the parliamentary election results are not legitimate. Gregory Asmolov analyzes the role of the Internet in exposure of falsifications and the power change between state and citizens in the new information environment.

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1 December 2011

Global Voices Podcast: Technology that Empowers!

Written by Jamillah Knowles · Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

In this edition of the Global Voices podcast you can hear how women in Egypt are using technology to fight harassment, and what our Global Voices authors and editors got up to at the Mozilla Festival in London. We also mark World Aids Day by speaking to HIV/AIDS activists in Kenya and Egypt about the special work they do.

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5 November 2011

Japan's IT Exodus: A Personal Perspective (Part 2)

Written by Chris Salzberg · East Asia

Japanese blogger and programmer Ryo Asai describes the cultural differences between his previous workplace, a Japanese system integration company, and his new job at Amazon Japan.

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Updates about Technology

11 January 2012

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

10 January 2012

Iran

The head of the national security forces, Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam, says [fa] Google is a spying tool not a search engine.

• Fred Petrossian

8 January 2012

Russia

Blogger Lana Sator publishes [ru] pictures from NPO Energomash, a rocket factory situated near Moscow that specializes on producing liquid propellant rocket engines. Sator with her friend, had been sneaking into the factory for 5 nights in a row, due to a ‘complete lack of security.' Pictures remind us one more time of Soviet industrial style and aesthetics.

• Alexey Sidorenko

4 January 2012

Kenya

Erik believes that 2011 was a great year for startups in Africa: “The past few years have been about building an infrastructure that improves the chances of the technology startups in Africa to succeed. Seeing this buildout in action in 2011 was exciting, but it should be recognized for what it really was: a setup for 2012 and beyond.”

• Ndesanjo Macha

Iran

Iranian police ordered [fa] internet cafes to install cameras and ask clients to provide identity card and phone number.

• Fred Petrossian

29 December 2011

Kenya

Read Mbwana Ally's 12 predictions for Africa's tech scene in 2012: “New models of mobile money will be explored that are less dependent on mobile operators, such asPagatech in Nigeria, but their growth will be slow given the lack of a strong agent network to begin with.”

• Ndesanjo Macha