Global Voices · Citizen media stories from November 2009

November, 2009

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Stories from November, 2009

3 November 2009

Georgia: Orthodox scandal

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

In the most religious country of the South Caucasus where the Orthodox Church's Patriarch can even encourage a baby boom, criticizing the clergy is still somewhat taboo. Lampooning them, however, is even worse and fraught with danger.

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The future of ICT4D: How soon is now?

Written by John Liebhardt · Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia

In the final of three posts on the future of ICTs for development, we examine a few projects that could change the way people leverage technology in rural areas.

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Syria: The Best or the Worst Article Ever?

Written by Jillian C. York · Middle East & North Africa

Syrian bloggers frequently decry travel writing about their country - often it's too stereotypical, sometimes downright false. And for a country considered long "isolated" at least from the United States, it can be particularly frustrating to see such writing promoted as accurate. In this post, we will examine reactions to a recent National Geographic article on the country.

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Introducing Threatened Voices

Written by sami ben gharbia · Blogger Profiles, Announcements

Today, Global Voices Advocacy is launching a new website called Threatened Voices to help track suppression of free speech online. It features a world map and an interactive timeline that help visualize the story of threats and arrests against bloggers worldwide, and it is a central platform to gather information from the most dedicated organisations and activists.

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Kenya: Bloggers discuss first Kenyan gay marriage

Written by Haute Haiku · Sub-Saharan Africa

A Kenyan gay couple caused an outrage when they decided to be joined in a civil union, the whole nation cried “foul, that's not right.” Charles and Daniel legalized their union on October17, in London.

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Indonesia: Criminalizing the graft fighters

Written by Carolina Rumuat · East Asia

Indonesian netizens are calling for the release of two officials of an anti-graft body who were arrested for allegedly abusing their powers and accepting bribes. For many Indonesians, the two men represent the nation's fight against corruption.

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Updates from November, 2009

19 November 2009

Cuba

Cuba's Generation Y sends a questionnaire to U.S. President Obama “with some of the issues that keep [her] from sleeping” and publishes his responses.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Myanmar (Burma)

A company in Thailand bought more than 100 popular Burmese songs to be sold as ring tones for mobile phones in Thailand.

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Bermuda

“Next time you go up to Dockyard, lie down on that big ole dock and give it a hug”: According to Vexed Bermoothes, “At its $60 million pricetag, it cost every single Bermudian about $1,250 in long term debt. You better kiss that dock ‘cuz it owns a piece of you.”

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Jamaica

“It seems there are a few problems with the Jamaica Defence Force worth looking into”: For Jamaica Salt, it is a case of who's going to guard the guards.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Uruguay

The locally produced short film called Panic Attack! created by Fede Alvarez shows the science fiction story of robots invading the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo. The blog El Bachural [es] enjoyed the short because it showed his city in a different light.

• Eduardo Avila

Guatemala

The look of the streets of Guatemala City has changed over the past 20 years. The blog Guate en los 80s [es] takes a look at the culture of that decade, and includes this video of a drive through the city and notes the differences to how it appears now.

• Eduardo Avila