Global Voices · Citizen media stories from December 2009

December, 2009

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Stories from December, 2009

4 December 2009

Congo: Doctors without Borders tell people's stories through web video

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Sub-Saharan Africa

Condition Critical is a website showcasing the stories of victims of the violence in Eastern Congo coordinated and launched by Doctors without Borders/Medecins sans Frontiers (MSF). With slideshows and first person accounts, they give a face to the conflict.

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Portuguese-speaking bloggers on World Aids Day ‘09

Written by Diego Casaes · Sub-Saharan Africa, Western Europe

This World Aids Day Lusophone bloggers in different parts of the world reflect on the suffering caused by the human immunodeficiency virus.

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Russia: Blogger Arrested For Pneumonic Plague Rumors

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Eastern & Central Europe

Ivan Peregorodiev, a 22-year-old medical student and blogger, has been arrested on December 3 for spreading rumors about pneumonic plague in the city of Saratov. Authorities accused him of disseminating false information related to an act of terrorism.

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Slovakia: Controversial Politician Opposes Construction of a Casino

Written by Tibor Blazko · Eastern & Central Europe, Western Europe

TriGranit, one of Europe's largest property developers, in cooperation with Harrah's Entertainment, the world's largest gaming company, are to build a leisure and shopping complex with a casino in Slovakia. Tibor Blazko translates some of what Slovak netizens have to say about one of the critics of this construction project.

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3 December 2009

M-banking: Going where no bank has gone before

Written by Aparna Ray · Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia

Millions and millions of low-income, unbanked people stand to benefit (and maybe prosper?) from the development of mobile financial services in the next years, but there are several technological, logistical, and security challenges that must be addressed first.

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Young Leaders from Sweden and Middle East in Dialogue

Written by Suzanne Lehn · Middle East & North Africa

Last month, the Swedish Institute in Paris hosted a meeting of 26 young people from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Sweden to improve dialogue between opinion leaders in Sweden, the Middle East and North Africa. Global Voices in French was there.

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Updates from December, 2009

23 December 2009

Singapore

Anonymous_X questions the inclusion of dethroned beauty queen Ris Low from Singapore in CNN's list of Asia's 25 Most Influential People

• Mong Palatino

22 December 2009

El Salvador

In El Salvador, Willian Marroquín writes about the role of the media as watchdogs for the new programs of the administration of President Mauricio Funes [es], including those from the Ministry of Education. He writes that hopefully the media would stop being 'spokespersons' for the government as had been the case in past administrations.

• Eduardo Avila

Peru

Two residents of the Peruvian province of Huancabamba were killed during a recent protest against mining activity, and Caviar de Cianuro [es] writes about the recent investigation findings that they were shot in the back.

• Eduardo Avila

Bhutan

Jurmi Chhowing announces the launch of a new Bhutanese monthly news magazine, called “Drukpa”. He informs that: “the monthly magazine was born as discussion after discussion highlighted the lack of a proper bridge to gap the difference between all sections of our society.”

• Rezwan