Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2009 July 01

1 July 2009

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Stories from 1 July 2009

South Africa: Storm Brewing Between Government, Striking Doctors & Unions

Written by Ismail Dhorat · Sub-Saharan Africa

In the last few months there has been a storm brewing between different parties here in South Africa related to the public health care system. Doctors, unions and government are...

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Kazakhstan: State-ordered blogging

Written by Yelena Jetpyspayeva · Central Asia & Caucasus

rOOse, a blogger on the YVision.kz blog platform in Kazakhstan, has posted [ru] a letter from the government to the principals of schools and colleges across the country containing recommendations to upload videos to the KazTube.Kz video portal, which was created in February 2009 at the expense of the state budget.

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Global Voices translation exchange takes off

Written by Ivan Sigal · Announcements

Ever wonder how to build and maintain open language corpora? Design a translation memory tool to more efficiently translate large amounts of text across multiple languages? Crowdsource translations of everything...

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Kazakhstan: The decay of culture and media

Written by Adil Nurmakov · Central Asia & Caucasus

Today’s roundup of blogs from Kazakhstan is dedicated to culture and media and how they come across each other. Of course, it did not go without politics being involved in...

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Japan: On How to Perceive the Japanese Web (Part Two)

Written by Tomomi Sasaki · East Asia

Part Two and Part Three of this post highlights some of the discussions in the blogosphere and Twittersphere that followed the conterversial interview “The Japanese web is ‘disappointing': An interview...

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Updates from 1 July 2009