Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 January 05

5 January 2008

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Stories from 5 January 2008

Bangladesh: Cyclone Sidr relief efforts.

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Bangladesh

Cyclone Sidr struck Bangladesh mid November, and although media attention has waned, the efforts to aid the victims still continue. Vlogger Shawn from the Uncultured project recorded his visit to the disaster area to deliver blankets.

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Korea: Education proposals by the next President

Written by Hyejin Kim · East Asia

Since Lee Myung Bak was elected as the next president of the Republic of Korea, an interesting wave seen on the internet is the rapid increase in netizens’ activities against...

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Japan: The other side of the chasm

Written by Chris Salzberg · East Asia

From the perspective of global communication, one may say that the world today is divided into two groups: those who are connected to the Internet and those who are not. The "chasm" between these two worlds was the topic of a post last week at the Uncategorizable Blog, where the question was posed: How does the world of Internet users look to someone who is not connected? In a post entitled "The other side of the chasm," blogger essa draws on the relationship between uni- and multicellular life, and the relationship between humans and their dogs, to suggest a possible answer.

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China 2007: Online

Written by Bob Chen · East Asia

In 2007, the internet performed as a platform on which people fulfilled what they might not be able to fully enjoy in the reality --- the freedom of speech, the public participation and the pursuit of justice. In China, the internet was a copy, an extension of the real world. To know about the former, you might know about the latter.

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Updates from 5 January 2008

Iran

Barabary has published several photos of Jelveh Javaheri and Maryam Hosseinkhah,two women activists,after their freedom.

• Fred Petrossian

Argentina

Fabio Malini [pt] recommends a documentary by Alvaro Liuzzi [es] who “has made an effort to interview a number of bloggers - Argentine, Spanish, Chilean etc - for his documentary about blogging and journalism, published in video on the site Vimeo. They are 12 in-depth interviews, made with a Canon Powershot A 550″.

• Paula Góes

Kenya

An interesting debate is going on in a Moçambique para Todos [pt] post, with readers trying to provide answers to 6 questions posed by Manuel de Araujo [pt] about the situation in Africa, one of which is: “If a stable democracy as Kenya's may “disappear” in a matter of minutes, what can we say about coutries like ours, that have deep wounds caused by more than 26 years of a war?”

• Paula Góes

Kenya

Carlos Serra [pt], from Mozambique, writes a letter to senator Barack Obama, in which he pleads with him to help Kenya: “Well, your father was born there, therefore Senator, you are one of us, you are African, you are Kenyan. Senator: Get in a plane and go to Nairobi to talk with those agitated companions. They need you. And by doing so you would give an extraordinary example with important repercusions for the future of the world”. There are both an English and a Portuguese versions of the letter.

• Paula Góes

Mozambique

Reflectindo sobre Moçambique [pt] wonders if there is a war between blog clans in Mozambique. Here are a few of the questions he poses: “A war in the Mozambican blogosphere? And if that is the case, what is the reason for it and what is their objective? Are blogs a nuisance to certain people or a group? Which or what? In which ways do blogs bother them? In short, who feel threatened by the development of blogs in Mozambique?”.

• Paula Góes

Iran

Jomhour ,Iran based blogger,says[Fa] some fundamentalists in Islamic world consider USA and Israel are responsible for what happens in their societies.The blogger is surprised to learn that some in Egypt consider USA-Israel, are even responsible for the homosexuality in their societies.

• Fred Petrossian