Global Voices · Citizen media stories from 2009 September 23

23 September 2009

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Stories from 23 September 2009

Australia: Kenyan women refused refugee status

Written by Kevin Rennie · Sub-Saharan Africa, Oceania

Two Kenyan women are facing deportation from Australia after their asylum applications were rejected, despite risks that they may suffer forced genital mutilation if they are sent home.

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Harvard Forum: Are we satisfied with what we've got?

Written by Ethan Zuckerman · The Future of ICT for Development

The live-blogging continues, as Michael Spence helps identify questions that are top research priorities for the ICT for development field with input from Yochai Benkler, Rohan Samarajiva, Hernan Galperin, Alison Gillwald, and Bill Melody.

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Brazil: Has a free Internet really appeared on the electoral scene?

Written by Roger Franchini · Latin America

With the new electoral reform in Brazil, the individual Internet user is now obliged to behave as a media entrepreneur, unable to analyse candidates' positions and losing the right to freedom of expression.

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Harvard Forum: the complex world of ICT and gender

Written by Ethan Zuckerman · The Future of ICT for Development

The live-blog continues with panel presentations on ICT for development by Clotilde Fonseca, Sabri Saidam, Ineke Buskens, Nancy Spence, and Ethan Zuckerman.

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The Egyptians Tweet Farouk Hosny's Defeat

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

Bulgarian candidate, Irina Bokova, 57, was elected the head of the UNESCO, defeating Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosny. Instead of mourning the loss, Egyptians celebrated his defeat on Twitter.

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Lebanon: Anger Rebuilding of Palestinian Camp Suspended

Written by Antoun Issa · Middle East & North Africa

Anger and protests erupted in response to the Lebanese Government's decision to suspend the reconstruction of the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp. Bloggers voice their outrage in this post by Antoun Issa.

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Iran: Animations vs. Dictatorship

Written by Fred Petrossian · Middle East & North Africa

Many designs, posters, songs and videos have been created in support of Iran's "green" protest movement. Animators too, have declared war on the dictatorship in Iran.

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Harvard Forum: Markets, Mobiles and the ability to make culture

Written by Ethan Zuckerman · The Future of ICT for Development

The live-blog continues with panel presentations on ICT for development by Ronaldo Lemos, Anita Gurumurthy, Ophelia Mascarenhas, and Lawrence Liang.

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USA: Pilgrimage into the Wild

Written by Lester Bolicenni · North America

Numerous fans of the best-selling book Into the Wild make the treacherous journey to the exact location in Alaska where its main character died in an abandoned public bus. Thankfully, many live to blog about it too.

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Update from the Harvard Forum on ICT4D

Written by Ethan Zuckerman · The Future of ICT for Development

Ethan Zuckerman and Jen Brea from Global Voices are live-blogging a conversation today and tomorrow at Harvard on the future of information and communication technology and development (ICT4D) hosted by Canada's International Development Research Center and Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

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Updates from 23 September 2009

Latvia

Free Speech Emergency in Latvia highlights the case of a Latvian blogger who “harshly criticized the Latvian state and government as being little more than a rapacious mafia and has said in some posts that revolutionary violence against such a system would be justified” - and was later questioned by the Latvian Security Police.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Robert Amsterdam's Blog links to OpenDemocracy.net's translation of correspondence between writer Ludmila Ulitskaya and former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, published (RUS) in Novaya Gazeta earlier this month.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Russian photographer Oleg Klimov reposts (RUS, ENG) three graphic and disturbing photos of mental asylum patients in Ulyanovsk region, taken by his colleague Valery Shchekoldin in 1998 for Stern.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Ukraine

Scenes from the Sidewalk announces a “virtual fundraiser” to help “transform the lives of [Ukrainian] street and at risk children and reintegrate them back into families and society.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Foreign Notes and Window on Eurasia review some of the coverage of the Ukraine-Russia-U.S.-Europe relations that have appeared in Ukrainian newspapers.

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Window on Eurasia reports that “there appears to be a chance that Turkey, despite denials by its officials, might break the embargo against recognition [of Abkhazia] because of Ankara’s desire to play a greater role in the Caucasus region, its own long-standing experience as the only country to recognize the Turkish Republic of North Cyprus, and the influence of its own Abkhaz and Circassian communities.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Window on Eurasia and Russia Blog comment on the Russian State Statistical Service's decision to postpone the 2010 census until 2013 - “on budgetary grounds.”

• Veronica Khokhlova