Global Voices · Citizen media stories from October 2009

October, 2009

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Stories from October, 2009

20 October 2009

ICT4D: When mobile phones link with computers

Written by John Liebhardt · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

In the second of three posts, we ask: How are new technologies changing the field of ICT4D? Will linking computers to portable phones benefit human development in the developing world?

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Uganda: Bloggers discuss anti-gay bill

Written by Haute Haiku · Sub-Saharan Africa

A Ugandan bill that would make homosexuality officially illegal and punishable with death sentence or life in prison has been tabled in parliament and now only awaits president Yoweri Museveni's signature. Gay bloggers in Uganda discuss.

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China: From heroic to ignorant masses, and then…

Written by Minax · China

The Chinese communist ideology has been eroding rapidly in the past two decades due to economic development. Traces of its revolutionary belief can still be found in political propaganda pieces...

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19 October 2009

Armenia: Oligarch's staff allegedly implicated in animal cruelty scandal

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

Facebook users today posted links to a video shot at what is alleged to be the private zoo of a local oligarch and MP. No stranger to controversy, the latest scandal reportedly linked to members of his entourage saw the light of day via Twitter.

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Ghana: Blog Action Day ’09

Written by Mac-Jordan · Sub-Saharan Africa

On Blog Action Day, Ghanaians interrogated world leaders, took issue with World Bank papers, introduced new web sites and wondered why there was so little discussion about climate change in the country—while acknowledging that there are certain things countries like Ghana are doing right.

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United Kingdom: ‘Super injunction' lifted on Côte d'Ivoire waste dumping report

Written by Judith Townend · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

Trafigura, the British oil trader, has finally released The Guardian newspaper from a secret injunction preventing it from reporting the so-called Minton Report, after an extraordinary week of online activity.

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Updates from October, 2009

27 October 2009

France

Sarah Hay blogs about the French lessons she gives to a group of young Afghan asylum seekers in a park in Paris. “They’re incredibly keen that I learn the Pashto for everything I teach them to the point of comical mishap, for example when I taught them the word metro…”

• Lester Bolicenni

Japan

The Kininaruu blog is enthusiastic about Manga no Shinbun ('Manga Newspaper'), a new Japanese website that publishes news stories as manga illustrations. Boo-hee thinks it's a good medium in a world overflowing with information [ja]. Hiroshi Hara posted an image of a similar attempt in his high school years.

• Tomomi Sasaki