Global Voices · Citizen media stories from April 2010

April, 2010

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Stories from April, 2010

10 April 2010

Citizen Media at International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy

Written by Davide Galati · Western Europe

The 4th edition of the International Journalism Festival will take place in Perugia, Italy on 21-25 April 2010 with several panel discussions focused on citizen journalism and new media from an international perspective.

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Kyrgyzstan: Social Media Create and Fight Information Overload

Written by Gregory Asmolov · Eastern & Central Europe, North America

The coverage of recent bloody events in Kyrgyzstan by online and traditional media caused information overload that made it very difficult to create a consistent picture. That is why bloggers who focused on monitoring the information, checking its credibility and creating consistent picture of events, played an important role in an adequate coverage of the protests.

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Trinidad & Tobago: Election Fever

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Caribbean

With one action, the prorogation of Parliament, Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister thrust the country into election mode. As the news broke, the blogosphere was rife with speculation...

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9 April 2010

Guatemala: A Tale of 2 Lakes, Macaws and a Queen

Written by Renata Avila · Latin America

Environmental activists are concerned about the continued oil exploration in the Laguna del Tigre National Park, which is one of many natural lakes in Guatemala that contain biodiversity and which are under threat.

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Taiwan: The winner of the Masters de la Boulangerie 2010 is…

Written by I-fan Lin · East Asia, Western Europe

Winner of the Coupe Louis Lesaffre in 2007 and silver medalist at in 2008 the World Cup Baking, Pao-Chun Wu has won the championship at the Masters de la Boulangerie 2010.

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Kyrgyzstan: The “Archived” Revolution

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Central Asia & Caucasus

On April 6th, Kyrgyzstan was hit by mass protests which eventually led to the overthrow of the government as well as many deaths. While the internet did not play a major role in mobilizing the protests, it has been used to document what happened in detail.

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Updates from April, 2010

22 April 2010

Russia

Profy writes about the soon-to-be-launched official Twitter account of the Russian president - and the recently suspended fake one: “The thing is that this Twitter account misbehaved on the day of last week’s terrorist bombings in Moscow: a comment was published that looked very much like the first official comment on the event from the president and quickly got quoted by news agencies and various publications - with the problem being that the president had nothing to do with the words.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

Russia

Lena Osipova of Global Chaos argues that RT, Russia's first all-digital English-language TV network, “not only does not promote Russia's credibility, but undercuts it further.”

• Veronica Khokhlova

India

Sandeep Bansal at Desicritics questions a missing democratic practice: “When will election debates matter in India?”

• Rezwan

Bangladesh

Kh. A. Saleque at E-Bangladesh decribes the reason for the recent energy crisis in Bangladesh: “not only foreign investors but also the local investors are seemingly disinclined to invest at any segment of energy value chain.”

• Rezwan

Maldives

Al's journey informs that nine more Maldivians have started their journey to reach the peak of the mount Everest.

• Rezwan

Sri Lanka

Chitrangi’s Weblog shares a story of police brutality on a 32 years old worker of the Sri Lanka Transport Board in Panadura.

• Rezwan

Brazil

Maria Frô republishes [pt] news about a University of Brasília's report uncovering flaws in the electronic voting system: “Let's be aware of this election as they promise unpleasant surprises considering the suspicion of different electoral research institutes.”

• Diego Casaes