Global Voices · Citizen media stories from November 2009

November, 2009

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Stories from November, 2009

20 November 2009

Kenya: Inventor of the World Wide Web lands in Kenya

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is in Kenya: “Credited with inventing the World Wide Web(WWW), Sir Tim Berners- Lee is in town and was today at the Strathmore University for an Interactive...

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Morocco: War on Press Continues

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Middle East & North Africa

The Moroccan authorities are ratcheting up their attacks on independent journalists. A week rarely passes without the authorities hitting hard on the press for alleged infractions, cracking down on printed as well as online media. Bloggers have been reflecting on this state of affairs.

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Featured Author: Filip Stojanovski

Written by David Sasaki · Eastern & Central Europe

Filip Stojanovski is a Global Voices author and translator based in Skopje, Macedonia. He is the Program Coordinator of Metamorphosis, a think tank which seeks the development of democracy and prosperity by promoting knowledge-based economy and information society.

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Puerto Rico: Hate Crime Against Gay Teenager Causes Outrage

Written by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle · Latin America

A horrendous murder has been committed against a gay teenager in Puerto Rico. The LGBT community has demanded that the crime be prosecuted under the Hate Crime Law. Bloggers react to this terrible crime.

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Russia: Blogging the Winter in Yakutia

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Winter is yet to arrive in much of Europe, but one of its geopolitical attributes is already back in the spotlight: fears of disruptions of Russian gas deliveries are growing more intense, due to the recurring dispute between Russia and Ukraine. Politics aside, though, in some of Russia's regions winter has been there since early fall. In Yakutia, for example.

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19 November 2009

Poland: Anonymous Blogger to Write About a Daily Tabloid

Written by Jakub Górnicki · Eastern & Central Europe

An anonymous journalist who used to work for a Polish daily tabloid called Fakt, started a new blog, BrukowiecStory ("TabloidStory" in English), in which he wants to write the truth about how things really work in the newsroom and in the publisher’s office.

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Updates from November, 2009

26 November 2009

Saint Lucia

From St. Lucia, Caribbean Book Blog interviews Dr. Neal Hall about his new anthology of verse, Nigger For Life.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Russia

The Russian Railroads company announced [RUS] today that free wi-fi hotspots would be installed at every passenger terminal in Moscow by December 7, 2009. The company expects around 1,500 wi-fi users per day but many Russian bloggers think the figure will be much larger.

• Alexey Sidorenko

China

Tingting from ChinaSMACK translated a local forum post that shows modern and luxurious design prison in China.

• Oiwan Lam

China

Angry Chinese blogger blogs about the ongoing destruction of Great Wall as a result of local corporates' private interest. In a recent case, a 100 meter long Great Wall has been damaged by gold miners in Inner Mongolia.

• Oiwan Lam

Russia

Alexander Batalov, a former administrator of the official Web site for the town of Irbit, faces libel charges for anonymous comments left by someone else on the site. Batalov is accused of allowing unapropriate comments online and, if found guilty, will be required to pay $8,000 penalty. The full story is here [RUS] and Batalov's interpretation of the case is here [RUS].

• Alexey Sidorenko