Global Voices · Citizen media stories from March 2010

March, 2010

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Stories from March, 2010

27 March 2010

The Virtual Choir: Technology, Collaboration and Music

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · East Asia, Western Europe

Composer Eric Whitacre , after seeing a Youtube video of a young soprano singing his song "Sleep" wondered: What if he could get people, regardless of where they were in the world, to record themselves signing all the other parts of his a capella choir piece? So he did, and following, you will be able to see the various results of this great experiment of online collaboration with the Virtual Choir.

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Russia: Two Video Scandals

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

In Russia this week it has been hard to miss the two scandals that, at first, appear to have only one thing in common: both are centered around amateur videos published online. Heated discussions in the blogosphere and in other online venues are taking place on quite different orbits - which nevertheless do have one or two overlap points.

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26 March 2010

Armenia-Azerbaijan: BBC Azeri Facebook Diary III

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

As part of the BBC Superpower Season, the BBC's Azeri service approached Global Voices Online's Caucasus editor to participate in its own reflection on the power of the Internet. What follows is the third and final in English

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Global Pulse 2010: An invitation to talk to decision makers online

Written by Lester Bolicenni · North America

From March 29 to 31, Global Pulse 2010 aims to gather over 20.000 people in an online conversation dealing with topics ranging from human development to science and technologies.

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25 March 2010

Bulgaria: Football Player Beats Up a Model

Written by Ruslan Trad · Eastern & Central Europe

Bulgaria is quite shocked at the news of a player for one of the country's biggest football clubs, CSKA, beating top model Kristin Vacheva.

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Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating Women in Technology and Transparency Worldwide

Written by David Sasaki · Latin America

In celebration of Ada Lovelace Day we profile several women based around the world who use technology to to make government more transparent and accountable.

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Philippines: Post-earthquake reactions on Twitter

Written by Mong Palatino · East Asia

A 6.1 intensity earthquake rocked Manila and nearby provinces in the Philippines a few hours ago. Twitterers continue to share their experience and observations.

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Africa: Notes From the Field

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Sub-Saharan Africa

This is a roundup of blog posts of Concern US aid workers blogging from Sub-Saharan Africa. Concern US aid workers blog regularly about their work and challenges they face as they help to transform lives of people in Malawi, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Sri Lanka: The Akon Controversy

Written by Rezwan · South Asia

A recent video of R&B singer-songwriter Akon featuring a group of scantly clad women dancing at a pool party in front of a Buddha statue caused much uproar in Sri Lanka. This became a hot topic in the Sri Lankan blogosphere.

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Armenia-Azerbaijan: BBC Azeri Facebook Diary II

Written by Onnik Krikorian · Central Asia & Caucasus

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Updates from March, 2010

30 March 2010

Russia

A popular Russian blogger Anton Nosik asks bloggers to contribute their content to the chapter of Wikipedia about terror attacks in Moscow metro.

• Gregory Asmolov

Trinidad & Tobago

“It seems hard to believe or to fully understand the idea that practicing a faith could be considered illegal here in T&T where we pride ourselves on religious tolerance and diversity, however for many decades that was exactly what the Shouter Baptist community endured”: TriniGourmet.com has some ideas for local fare on today's hard-won religious holiday.

• Janine Mendes-Franco

Brazil

In a post called “Sao Paulo, shithole of world”, Adriano Cintra from the band CSS, publishes a set of amazing pictures showing what happens when it rains in the biggest Latin American city, portraying the chaos the population has lived with since the beginning of the year.

• Paula Góes

Lebanon

Liliane comments on The Adventures of Salwa a new comic-style campaign aimed at combating sexual harassment in Lebanon.

• Katharine Ganly

China

Several twitterers, including @williamlong @geekinmedia @aHexie @terryxxy and @mranti, confirmed the blocking of google.cn's search in major cities, such as Beijing and Shenzhen in China. According to @mranti: Google search is blocked in Beijing. Any search will trigger reset.

• Oiwan Lam

India

Indian Tribals Blog reports that “dozens of citizen journalists in India’s chronically neglected tribal communities are producing and sharing audio news reports for the first time through an innovative cell phone system.”

• Rezwan

Bangladesh

Aktel, one of the leading cell phone service providers in Bangladesh, has renamed its brand as Robi in an attempt to ‘localise’ its branding. Bangladesh Corporate Blog analyzes consumer reactions through netizens' eyes.

• Rezwan

India

Muriel Kakani writes that India’s recent water crisis is “predominantly a man-made problem”. The blogger opines that ‘water harvesting from rainfalls' can be a solution.

• Rezwan

Sri Lanka

Sanjana Hattotuwa at ICT For Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) discusses about the unbounded nature of a new crowd-sourcing initiative in Sri Lanka called Citizens Net. This mapping project records human rights violence on issues regarding “gender-based violence, the rights of children, the elderly and the disabled”.

• Rezwan