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February, 2010

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Stories from February, 2010

12 February 2010

Is Ghana Ready For e-Voting?

Written by Mac-Jordan · Sub-Saharan Africa

A two-day event which began yesterday; is being organized by the Danquah Institute (DI), a policy think tank, research and analysis centre, to create a national platform for stakeholders to lead the discussion on the possibility of facilitating the adoption of biometric voter registration, and subsequently the e-voting system in Ghana.

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Egypt: Blogger loses job for uncovering fake virginity story

Written by Marwa Rakha · Middle East & North Africa

Egyptian blogger and journalist Amira Al Tahawi got fired for blowing the whistle over a fabricated story on the Chinese artificial hymen kit in a post she wrote on her blog, claim bloggers. Here are reactions from the Egyptian blogosphere on the incident.

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Lebanon: The Better Daily Star Project

Written by Layal Al Khatib · Middle East & North Africa

Annoyed by the current design of the news website "The Daily Star", Lebanese Blogger Beirut Spring redesigns the website to show that it can be done.

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Armenia: Eurovision 2010

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Western Europe, Central Asia & Caucasus

Unzipped comments on what it considers to be the two main contenders, Mihran & Emmy and Eva Rivas, as Armenia's entry into this year's Eurovision Song Contest. The blog says...

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Lebanon: Bloggers push for Daily Star revamp

Written by Antoun Issa · Middle East & North Africa

Lebanese bloggers are waging an online campaign to push the country's only English online newspaper to revamp its website. One blogger even takes the effort to redesign a mock - which his colleagues hope will prompt a change at The Daily Star, turning the "1920's Russian steam boat" into a 21st century cruise liner.

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China: Character of the Year

Written by Andy Yee · East Asia

Every year new words are invented, mirroring new trends in our societies. For example, ‘unfriend’ was voted the 2009 word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. It...

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Updates from February, 2010

21 February 2010

China

A google map marking and reminding people of the whereabout of the prisoners of conscience in China.

• Oiwan Lam

20 February 2010

English

Telecoms in Latvia reports that in order to “expose government waste, unjust wage differentials and possible corruption by analyzing data filed by state agencies and public sector,” individuals calling themselves “the Fourth Awakening People's Army” have obtained some “7.4 million records from a database linked to the web-based service for filing income tax returns and other information with Latvia's State Revenue Service.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Slovenia

Adventures in Wheelville posts pictures and video and writes about the carnival in Ptuj: “The carnival was a good time like a mini Mardi Gras and it gave me hope that at least some people in this country know and want to have a good time.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

China: Tibet Burns, But Where Are the Chinese Public Intellectuals?

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