Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2008 June 05

5 June 2008

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Stories from 5 June 2008

GV Summit 2008 - announcing reduced registration fees!

Written by Georgia Popplewell · Announcements

We've been working with our event partners in Hungary to have the registration fees for the Global Voices Citizen Media Summit 2008 reduced to a rate that would be more accessible to greater numbers of people. We're delighted to announce that we've succeeded -- registration fees for the Summit have been slashed from €210 (approx US$323) to US$152 for both Summit days (June 27 and 28), including lunch and refreshments, for those registering before June 25.

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Mobile Phone Technology for Environmental Activism

Written by Juliana Rotich · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

Mobile phones are becoming an important tool for environmental activists around the world. Activists are developing new technological strategies in order to do things like educate consumers about the impact...

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Kyrgyzstan: Someone is Relaxing, Someone is Fighting

Written by Elena Skochilo · Central Asia & Caucasus

Undoubtedly, the meeting of the Kyrgyz bloggers became the most under discussion event of the Kyrgyz blogosphere in the second half of May. 27 bloggers met and even the bad...

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Updates from 5 June 2008

Iran

Talkhon, an Iranian blogger, says [Fa] to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, please forget debating with Americans and come debate with Iranian young people who wants talk with you about the lack of freedom and their daily life in Iran.

• Fred Petrossian

Armenia

Unzipped: Gay Armenia comments on the reaction of a local theatre director to to much “liberalism” in Armenian society. In addition to warning that the situation will result in more pornography, the director also warned that Yerevan will eventually hold it's own gay parade. The blog disagrees with the conservative views.

• Onnik Krikorian

Armenia

Unzipped comments on the prosecution of three people arrested for looting in the post-election 1 March clash between opposition supporters and the authorities. Ironically, the blog notes, the men claim to be supporters of the new president and not the main opposition challenger, and says that there are always people who choose to exploit such situations for personal gain.

• Onnik Krikorian

Armenia

Social Science in the Caucasus comments on a recent report it produced for the United Nations on economic relations between Armenia and Georgia. The blog says that despite an ethnically Armenian populated region in Georgia bordering Armenia providing a natural basis for the development of trade between the two, there is actually very little.

• Onnik Krikorian